August 20th, 2026
72,042 people evacuated from danger to date
79 people evacuated from danger this week
28 trips into deoccupied and frontline territories this week
As of this week — and thanks to your support — Ukraine TrustChain teams completed their 72,000th evacuation. We are honored to have played a part in work that protects freedom and human rights of the most vulnerable on this scale.
Now, when the UTC teams are forced to pull back from the Ukrainian-held Donetsk towns of Sloviansk and Kramatorsk, it’s clear that the donations that supported these evacuations have saved lives. What comforts us is this: for years, your support has helped keep the escape routes open and running. Everyone who has considered leaving — with their loved ones, their pets, their belongings — has had the chance to do so. We pray for those who chose to stay.
Stories
Inna’s Team Closing Distribution Points in Sloviansk and Kramatorsk
Under incessant shelling, our Ukrainian volunteers are pulling back from places where our teams have supported people for years. First it was Kostiantynivka and Druzhkivka. Now it’s Sloviansk and Kramatorsk.
This weekend Inna's team closed the point in Kramatorsk where it had been handing out humanitarian aid.
"We closed the point where we gave out aid. We announced it officially to people — there will be nothing there any more. Why? Because it is becoming very dangerous. Let's put it this way: not very dangerous, just dangerous. They bomb around us, they bomb next to us, houses destroyed, and so on. The idea that we would keep doing something there on a mass scale — and suddenly a crowd gathers, and God forbid something arrives — that is a serious problem for everyone, and above all for the organizers."
Inna team continues to deliver aid to Donetsk region though expanding distributions in Troitske and Izyum and growing their presence in other regions that are coming under attack now, in Dnipro region around Synelnykove and Nikopol.
Woman Evacuated after Concussion
Vitaliy’s team has been steadily evacuating people from Kramatorsk. On August 13th they received a phone call:
After a massive rocket attack on Kramatorsk at night, we received an urgent call, asking us to evacuate an injured woman and her son as quickly as possible. During the attack, the woman was thrown back by the shock wave, and a broken door landed on her head, causing a concussion. The woman was unconscious for three hours, before coming to. People quickly gathered several bags of the family’s most necessary belongings, and we went out to get them.
The woman and her son have now been evacuated to relatives in the Poltava Region. They were surprised at the speed of our response.
The situation in Kramatorsk continues to escalate. There are constant FPV drones and nonstop strikes, so people are leaving the city en masse. Some ask us to transport their belongings, while others leave with only one bag and their pets. The main thing is that people choose life and leave this dangerous zone.
Team Summaries
Alina H.’s Team – Dobra sprava (Good Deeds)
8 trips evacuating 43 people.
Inna’s Team – Krok z nadiyeyu (Step with Hope)
16.5 tons of aid delivered.
7150 people helped.
4400 people received bread.
Evacuated 1 woman from Kherson to Mykolaiv.
Restored 8 large basements.
Passed fuel and refueled 9 generators in Kherson red zones.
10 high-risk locations visited.
Aid provided in 31 locations.
Oleksandr D’s Volunteer Networks
Oleksandr S. (Ukrainka): the Boyarka Restart club held 2 nature outings for volunteers and children affected by war. Sent an 80 kg ultrasound machine to a clinic in Zaporizhzhia. In the Sumy Region, distributed 2.5 tons of food aid to 200 families in Stepanivka, and hygiene products to people with disabilities in Romny. In the Chernihiv Region, 250 kg of food kits were distributed in Snovsk, and 55 kg of shoes in various locations. Also, provided walkers and wheelchairs to 14 people with disabilities in the Sumy and Chernihiv regions.
Vladyslav K. (Mykolaiv): delivered 35 tons of drinking water to Mykolaiv.
Sandra S. (Odesa): report for 2 weeks. The kitchen closed for 1 week, due to extreme heat. They have now resumed the work of preparing and serving fresh meals, in the usual location, at the Odesa train station. Due to daily air raids, the kitchen migrates to the train station’s bomb shelter.
Vitaliy Z. (Kharkiv): delivered 4 tons of humanitarian kits, clothes, medicine, and animal feed to Kramatorsk. Evacuated 5 people and their pets, also from Kramatorsk.
Alla A. (Kremenets’): the volunteers continue to provide services for disabled and internally displaced people (IDPs). They are currently preparing lists and supplies of humanitarian aid for 180 people. In addition, the center offers psychological help and living skills for adults, and daycare and events for children.
Hryhoriy M. (Tal’ne): held an event for 130 children and their parents, offering psychological support, classes, singing, games, and meals to children from large families, orphans, and children of fallen soldiers. Transportation was provided for children from the surrounding villages. The team also put on a large outdoor event in Tal’ne, attended by up to 500 children and youth, featuring games, slides, trampolines, and food.
Oksana K. (Lutsk): distributed 250 kg of adult diapers and urological pads to elderly and disabled people. Handed out baby boxes to 8 expecting families.
Oleksandr D. (Lutsk): volunteer Vadym T. returned from Germany with 1,100 kg of food: bars, muesli, and breakfast cereals. Part of this aid was sent by mail to Dnipro, for Inna’s organization, as well as to Cherkasy, Kaniv, Ta’lne, Mykolaiv, Kherson, and Odesa. The rest was left in Lutsk, for future distribution.
Oleksandr Z. (Lutsk): provided therapeutic interventions and aid to internally displaced people (IDPs), children and adults with disabilities, children from military families, veterans and their families, orphans, elderly people, and amputees in the Lutsk territorial community. 1,245 children and adults received help, including art therapy, music therapy, zootherapy, sports activities, a visit to the museum, help with bread and other food, help with glasses, dental, medical, and preventive procedures, psychological support, and help with the manufacture of wheelchairs for children and prostheses and rehabilitation for adults.
Karina’s Team – My ryatuyemo Ukrayinu (We Save Ukraine)
90 people in the shelter.
Natasha’s Team – Volontersʹkyy tsentr Vyshnya (Cherry Volunteer Center)
Tetiana from Kryvyi Rih, traveled to the Kherson region delivering 215 family packages into the villages of Khreshenivka, Shevchenkovka and Petrivka.
Timur’s Team – Komanda Teymura Alyeva (Timur Alyev’s Team)
The team distributed 247 aid packages to elderly in Saltivka Kharkiv.
Special deliveries to 33 families with infants and 18 disabled elderly.
Pavel and Olena’s Teams – Dotyk sertsya (Touch of Heart) & Svitanok mriy (Dawn of Dreams)
527 packages delivered to Kyselivka, Kvitneve, Afanasivka and Partyzanske.
Pomahaem Foundation (We Help Foundation)
105 people arrived in Voloske transit shelter.
Alina S.’s Team – Dity novoho pokolinnya (Children of the New Generation)
21 people evacuated over 6 trips to frontline Dnipro villages
People were evacuated from Shakhtarske, Vasylkivka, Bohynivka, Mezhova, Slovyansk, Pokrovsk and 3 more.
Marina’s Team – Daruy dobrо Ukrayina (Give Good Ukraine)
Food and hygiene kits were distributed to 150 internally displaced families in Zhovti Vody.
Dina’s Team – Vilʹni lyudy, vilʹna krayina (Free People, Free Country)
Distributed 432 packages of aid in Kaniv, Kremenchuk, Poltava, Dnipro.
Served 1530 meals in the soup kitchen in Kharkiv.
Delivered 450 packages of aid to families in the Kharkiv region.
Bohdan’s Team — Vse robymo sami (We Do Everything Ourselves)
Food and hygiene kits were distributed to 42 families in Zhytomyr.
At the club for children with disabilities, the children participated in cooking and art classes and therapeutic and developmental sessions.
Alena’s Team – Diva (Virgo)
Disturbed bread to 326 families in Odesa.
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