August 27th, 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
Don’t Forget about Ukraine; Don’t Let Others Forget
In our letters, Ukraine TrustChain mainly focuses on sharing news from our Ukrainian volunteer teams. Meanwhile, behind the scenes, constant work goes on in the US and around the world to raise awareness about the situation in Ukraine and fund Ukrainian relief and resistance efforts, such as ours.
The news cycle is relentless. World crises jostle for the public’s attention. and memories are often far too short. But the war in Ukraine is not over. This is why we are incredibly grateful to those of you who haven’t forgotten Ukraine.
Just a few days ago, one of our board members ran into a neighbor in a local shop. The neighbor told him that she thinks about Ukraine often and donates regularly. In fact, with everything going on in Ukraine, the neighbor has increased her donation and now donates more to UTC than to any other organization. It is an honor to encounter people like her.
If you are reading this newsletter, please consider increasing your support if you are able. Better still, forward this letter to a friend and ask them to support Ukraine.
Stories
Residents from Frontline Towns Evacuated to Germany.
Alena from the Diva team surprised us this week, when she reported that the team coordinated the evacuation of 29 adults and 17 children from Mykoaiv and surrounding villages to Germany. Diva regularly goes on dangerous aid-delivering missions, but doesn’t typically get involved in evacuations. In this case, however, a German NGO, which has occasionally helped Diva, offered a bus to evacuate locals to Germany and to help with their resettlement.
Alena reached out to local contacts and administration to identify residents who were willing to go. Some of these residents lived in villages along the front line. Alena worked with local evacuation teams to get these villagers to Mykolaiv. Other people got to Mykolaiv on their own. Alena met them all, made sure they had all the right paperwork, got them onto the bus to Germany, and provided the children with treats and snacks for the long journey.
Sloviansk and Kramatorsk Become Active Combat Zones
In the weekly report from Dobra sprava, Ihor highlighted the worsening situation across the Ukrainian-held part of the Donetsk Region, noting that Sloviansk, Kramatorsk, and surrounding settlements were experiencing daily shellings, Russian incursions near Mykolaivka, and severe disruptions to power, water and communications. These areas have now been officially designated as active combat zones by the Cabinet of Ministers.
Despite the escalating danger, Dobra sprava completed eight evacuation trips over the week, rescuing 39 people, most of whom were elderly, with serious health conditions. A memorable evacuation involved Grandma Ira, a blind woman with a pacemaker, who was evacuated alongside her daughter and son-in-law. She tearfully reflected on surviving World War II as a small child, only to face another war.
"Who would have thought this would happen, that the Russians would attack us!. Oh, God, oh God... When will they start acting like human beings? I probably won't live to see it," cried Ira, whose son is serving in the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Drone in the netting over frontline road
Team Summaries
Alina H.’s Team – Dobra sprava (Good Deeds)
8 trips, evacuating 39 people.
Inna’s Team – Krok z nadiyeyu (Step with Hope)
15.5 tons of aid distributed.
Aid reached 30 locations, including 7 in high-risk zones.
Restored 10 large spaces in Kherson, including 4 bomb shelters.
Refueled 8 generators in Kherson red zones.
Oleksandr D’s Volunteer Networks
Vladyslav K. (Mykolaiv): delivered 34 tons of drinking water to Mykolaiv. The team also received 210 kg of muesli bars and 1 pallet of clothing from Oleksandr D.’s team. These will be distributed in Mykolaiv, Kherson and Odesa.
Sandra S. (Odesa): despite the continuing air raids and electrical outages, the kitchen prepared 600 fresh meals at the Odesa train station. Last winter, the volunteers purchased lanterns, which are helping with the lighting situation, when the electricity is out. The volunteers are now strategizing how to have a backup power source for cooking during electrical outages.
Vitaliy Z. (Kharkiv): delivered 4 tons of humanitarian kits, clothes, medicine, and animal feed to Stepne, in the Kramatorsk community. Evacuated at least 10 people, plus their pets, from Kramatorsk and the Kramatorsk District. Evacuees included 2 children, as well as elderly people with disabilities or limited mobility.
Alla A. (Kremenets’): held a social support and art session for 20 internally displaced people (IDPs). Participants were able to set aside their worries to gather, talk, and make art together. Provided social services and daycare to 30 people with disabilities. Held a training for teachers on adapting children to the new school year and a resilience project on dealing with difficult circumstances. Received and distributed clothes among the IDP population.
Yuri P. (Boryslav): delivered a total of 2.5 tons of baby food to Ostroh, Kyiv, Ukrainka, Kaniv, and Cherkasy.
Hryhoriy M. (Tal’ne): held an event for 100 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, together with the city of Tal’ne, organized transportation of 70 children to a free week-long rest and recovery camp in the city of Kam’yanka. Among the participants were children of fallen soldiers, orphans, children from large families, and other children in difficult life circumstances.
Oksana K. (Lutsk): distributed 100 kg of adult diapers and urological pads to 20 families with sick relatives.
Oleksandr D. (Lutsk): helped deliver 1 ton of aid from Oksana K’s team to Kaniv, including 2 mobile beds for transporting patients, a verticalizer for bedridden patients, an examination chair, various medications, and sweets from Ireland for the children of Kaniv.
Oleksandr Z. (Lutsk): provided therapeutic interventions and aid to internally displaced people (IDPs), children and adults with disabilities, military veterans, orphans, elderly people, and amputees in the Lutsk territorial community. 1,308 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)
81 people in the shelter.
Timur’s Team – Komanda Teymura Alyeva (Timur Alyev’s Team)
Distributed 288 aid packages to seniors in Saltivka, Kharkiv.
Special deliveries to 35 families with infants and 18 disabled elderly.
Pavel and Olena’s Teams – Dotyk sertsya (Touch of Heart) & Svitanok mriy (Dawn of Dreams)
220 families received aid in the villages of Shevchenkove and Novohryhorivka.
Aid was delivered to 150 IDP families from Kherson, who are living in Mykolaiv.
Pomahaem Foundation (We Help Foundation)
162 people arrived at the Volos’ke Transit Shelter.
Alina S.’s Team – Dity novoho pokolinnya (Children of the New Generation)
Evacuated 12 people in 10 trips to Novopavlivka, Mezhova, Pokrovsk, Vasylkivka, and Kramatorsk
Transported 36 people, including 24 children, from a summer camp in Western Ukraine, organized for children from low-income families.
Marina’s Team – Daruy dobrо Ukrayina (Give Good Ukraine)
Distributed 150 food and hygiene packages to internally displaced people in Piatykhatky.
Dina’s Team – Vilʹni lyudy, vilʹna krayina (Free People, Free Country)
Distributed 504 packages of aid to newly arrived refugees in Kaniv, Kremenchuk, Poltava, and Dnipro.
1,410 meals served in the Kharkiv soup kitchen.
Delivered 250 packages of aid to the suburbs of Kharkiv.
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.
Alena’s Team – Diva (Virgo)
Traveled to Nadezhdivka, Myroliubivka, and Pravdyne in the Kherson region to deliver aid to people who have resettled there, as well as existing struggling residents. Delivered 150 packages of aid and 50 packages of sweets for children.
Deeper toward the frontline near Kherson, residents of Beryslav District villages of Rakivka, Shevchenko, and Urozhaine received 420 canisters of propane for their stoves.
Coordinated the evacuation of 46 people (17 of them children) to Germany in cooperation with a German NGO.
Distributed donated bread in Odesa to 323 families.
Anna’s Team – Nezalezhna natsiya (Independent Nation)
Water transportation continues in the Kherson region. 465 tons of water delivered in the last 30 days.
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