August 6th, 2026
71,868 people evacuated from danger to date
80 people evacuated from danger this week
31 trips into deoccupied and frontline territories this week
As Ukraine's strikes on Russia's war machine grow stronger by the week, Putin's frustrated generals respond the only way they know how — by terrorizing civilians. Ukraine's anti-missile defenses are nearly exhausted, and almost every Russian ballistic missile now reaches its target. Night after night, the people of Kyiv, Odesa, and Dnipro hide in basements, corridors, and metro stations. Recent attacks took place on July 27th, 28th, 31st, August 1st and 4th. One ballistic rocket killed five members of the large close-knit Voronov family. The rocket took the life of the parents, three of their children, and their 18-month-old grandson, while four other Voronov children remain missing under the rubble.
Stories
Nikopol’ Volunteers Lose Both Vehicles to Drone Attack
Slavik, our Nikopol’ volunteer and his team suffered a terrible blow this week.
On the night of July 31 to August 1st a dreadful thing happened: both of our vehicles burned completely in a drone attack. Shock and despair are only a small part of what we are feeling.
For those who have followed Slavik's work in Nikopol’, this is grim news indeed. He has poured his soul into these vehicles — forever repairing them, talking about the ruinous roads and what they do to his cars, and yet never missing a day of delivering aid; loading the vehicles with supplies and driving out to the worst corners of the Nikopol’ District, where the Russian drones hunt without pause.
We are grateful that the drones struck the cars while they stood parked, and that none of the volunteers were hurt. We hope to help Slavik get back on the road soon.
Russian Attacks Hit Close to Another Distribution Point
In previous weeks, we reported the attacks around the Shevchenkove humanitarian aid hub, which eventually forced Inna’s volunteers to leave the area. Last week a rocket hit close to another distribution point — this time in Sloviansk — blowing out the windows. Sloviansk residents suffer these attacks daily, so the volunteers are planning to continue their work, but the rising risks across the frontline are concerning.
Kramatorsk Attacks Spike, Causing More Evacuations
As the situation on the eastern frontlines has worsened, the city of Kramatorsk has grown more and more dangerous. Vitalyi, whose team regularly delivers aid there, notes the "constant massive shelling of the Kramatorsk community, strikes by KABs, [and] attacks by Shaheds and FPV drones, including drones on fiber optics."
The increased danger and massive attacks on the city are finally prompting some locals to evacuate. In the past week, Vitalyi's team carried out four evacuations, taking people from Yasnohirka in the Kramatorsk community and Kramatorsk itself to relative safety in the Poltava, Dnipropetrovsk, and Kharkiv regions. The team helped the locals pack most of their belongings and take their pets — for Vitalyi, abandoning the animals is not an option.
The evacuations are often tense. Many of the people the team evacuates are elderly, disabled, or have limited mobility. They need extra assistance and move slowly, while overhead the drones are watching. In the current series of evacuations, one was particularly difficult, as the team had to pack all the belongings of two disabled people and carry them down from the ninth floor. In all, nine people, four cats, and one dog were evacuated. Three of the evacuees were children and four were disabled or had limited mobility. Vitalyi's team also provided the evacuees with filling out paperwork and receiving assistance for internally displaced people at their new location.
Team Summaries
Alina H.’s Team – Dobra sprava (Good Deeds)
Competed 9 trips, evacuating 45 people.
Inna’s Team – Krok z nadiyeyu (Step with Hope)
7,400 people received aid.
4,400 people received bread.
17.1 tons of aid delivered to 30 locations, 11 of them in high-risk zones.
Delivered bread to Sloviansk hospital.
Kherson team restored 4 buildings, performing pest exterminations and disinfections.
Refueled 2 generators in Kherson red zones.
Oleksandr D’s Volunteer Networks
Oleksandr S. (Ukrainka): provided charging stations to 4 families from Sumy and Chernihiv regions (80 kg total) and delivered 20 tons of food to the Sumy Region. Distributed 9 tons of food kits to families in Sumy. Provided pregnancy tests to 5 women. Distributed a total of 220 kg of wheelchairs, crutches, walkers, mattresses for bedsore prevention, and toilet seats to 22 people. Delivered 250 kg of medicines to a hospital in the Chernihiv Region. Received 200 kg of aid at the Ukrainka warehouse, for further distribution.
Vladyslav K. (Mykolaiv): delivered 35 tons of drinking water to Mykolaiv. The situation in Mykolaiv is not getting better. The need for drinking water remains acute, especially with the summer’s heat. Fuel prices have also risen and the city is experiencing almost round-the-clock air sirens.
Sandra S. (Odesa): the kitchen distributed 600 freshly-prepared meals in very stressful conditions. Air raid alarms are almost constant in Odesa and they are frequently accompanied by actual shelling.
Oleksiy P. (Kaniv): received 3 pallets of baby food, cookies and yogurt and distributed these among the Baby’s House organization in Kaniv, as well as a shelter for women with children, needy families with children in Cherkasy and nearby villages, and the village of Oleksandrivka, Kirovohrad Region.
Vitaliy Z. (Kharkiv): delivered 4 tons of humanitarian kits, clothes, medicine, and animal feed to Molotaranivka in the Kramatorsk community. Distributed 500 loaves of “Victory” bread in Kramatorsk. In several trips to Krasnohirka and Kramatorsk, evacuated 4 people with disabilities or with limited mobility, 3 minors, and 2 other adults, along with each family’s belongings and 5 pets (4 cats and 1 dog). Each of the evacuated people received help with settling in a new location, filling out documents and applying for state payments and social assistance.
Alla A. (Krements’): provided psychological support to 70 people with limited mobility and internally displaced people (IDPs). Provided rehabilitation equipment and mobility aids to 12 people.
Hryhoriy M. (Tal’ne): held an event for 120 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. Children from the Tal’ne program were also taken to visit an orphanage in the village of Berizky in the Mykolaiv Region. The Tal’ne children presented the orphanage residents with gifts, sweets and also hygiene products. The children spent the day together, playing games and building friendships.
Oksana K. (Lutsk): sent 20 kg of adult diapers to a seriously ill person and a family of IDPs in Novovolynsk, Volyn Region. Joined an aid trip in the Kharkiv direction, bringing sweets and prostheses. Provided 30 kg of food to wounded military members in Lutsk. Gave baby boxes to 6 families who are expecting children. Provided a total of 70 kg of adult diapers to 14 people in Lutsk.
Oleksandr D. (Lutsk): brought 1,200 kg of aid, including washing machines, a refrigerator, massage couches, postoperative nutrition, medicines, walkers, crutches, and clothes, from Germany, and delivered these to Ukrainka, Kaniv, and Cherkasy for further distribution.
Oleksandr Z. (Lutsk): provided therapeutic interventions and aid to IDPs, children and adults with disabilities, veterans and their families, orphans, elderly people, and amputees in the Lutsk territorial community. 1,228 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)
87 people in the shelter.
Tetiana’s Team – Dopomoha poruch (Help Is Near)
Delivered 80 aid packages and cleaning products to the village of Krutoyarivka, on the border between Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk regions.
Delivered 100 aid packages and cleaning products to Kramatorsk.
Timur’s Team – Komanda Teymura Alyeva (Timur Alyev’s Team)
Distributed 220 aid packages to seniors in Saltivka, Kharkiv.
Special deliveries to 20 disabled elderly and 27 families with infants.
Pavel and Olena’s Teams – Dotyk sertsya (Touch of Heart) & Svitanok mriy (Dawn of Dreams)
170 families received aid packages in the villages of Posad-Pokrovske and Myrne.
89 Kherson IDP families received aid in Mykolaiv.
Dina’s Team – Vilʹni lyudy, vilʹna krayina (Free People, Free Country)
Distributed 271 packages in Kaniv, Kremenchuk, and Poltava.
Mailed 30 packages from Dnipro.
Served 1,200 meals at the soup kitchen in Kharkiv.
Distributed 200 packages to newly displaced people in 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, children attended a culinary class.
Alena’s Team – Diva (Virgo)
Bread distributed to 352 families in Odesa.
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