February 5th, 2026
69,995 people evacuated from danger to date
31 people evacuated from danger this week
36 trips into deoccupied and frontline territories this week
Last week, we had a chance to tally up the numbers reflecting Ukraine TrustChain’s impact in 2025. Overall, teams supported by Ukraine TrustChain helped an estimated total of 2,480,397 people, focusing on the most vulnerable populations and those living in the most unsafe parts of Ukraine. Volunteers delivered 5,592 tons of drinking water, 4,808 tons of firewood, and 311,000 packages. Our evacuation teams rescued 3,445 people. There were also countless examples of generosity and help that are hard to put into any category, from providing art therapy for disabled children to feeding someone’s dog. These are just numbers, but all of you who continue to donate and follow these letters know how much work it takes to achieve such truly incredible results — work that is only made possible thanks to the sustained financial support provided by you, our community.
Stories
Roadway net defenses in Ukraine designed to trap incoming Russian drones
The Cost of Waiting
In Tarasivka, the war reached Svitlana through her neighbor’s roof. A direct drone strike killed the entire family next door — people who were bedbound and unable to flee. Where the family home once stood, there is now only a crater.
Svitlana spent the next eight days in her cellar.
When she first called the Dobra sprava hotline, she sobbed for twenty minutes, unable to process the logic of the attack.
“They killed my neighbors,” she told Bohdan over the phone. “They were lying down. They killed people who couldn't even walk.”
Fear of the open air is its own kind of cage. Bohdan called Svitlana ten times over the next several days, acting as a lifeline while she remained frozen in the dark. It took the physical presence of team members Dasha and Illia, banging on Svitlana’s metal gate during a nearby mission, to finally draw her out.
She appeared at the gate, pale and expressionless.
“Come tomorrow,” she told them. “I am ready. I just need time to settle the chickens.”
They drove halfway to Dnipro in silence, but, as the distance from the front grew, Svitlana began to talk, sharing stories of a life in Tarasivka, to which she will likely never return. She arrived at the shelter and embraced the volunteers, finally safe, but carrying the weight of a week spent in a cellar, listening for the whine of the drones that killed her neighbors.
Firewood for a Mother of 14 Children
Tanya Mikhaylichenko is the mother of 14 foster children. She takes in the most challenging teenagers and children with disabilities:
When you have so many children and they all have health problems, a lot of money goes toward medications and medical examinations, and there's barely enough left for food. Firewood for the Mikhaylichenko family is a blessing from God — heating a home for such a large family is very expensive. Thanks to this help, our children are warm. Thank you so much for such invaluable assistance to our family!
Tanya was one of hundreds of people who received firewood last week, thanks to the tireless efforts of Inna’s volunteers. Three other teams, Pavlo and Olena Shulha’s team, Oleksandr S. and Vitaliy Z.’s team, also continued delivering firewood last week.
Team Summaries
Alina’s Team – Dobra sprava (Good Deeds)
8 trips, evacuating 31 people from Druzhkivka, Mykolaivka, Kramatorsk, and Sloviansk.
Inna’s Team – Krok z nadiyeyu (Step with Hope)
186 tons of firewood delivered in Dnipro, Kryvyi Rih, and the Kharkiv Region.
Delivered firewood to a mother caring for 14 foster children.
Kherson team disinfected 4 large basements and bomb shelters.
Completed 3 day trip to Ukrainian controlled Donbas around Kramatorsk, in unsafe conditions.
Organized large-scale distributions of donated wam clothing in Kryvyi Rih, Nikopol’, and Dnipro shelters.
21 tons of aid delivered to 7,850 people.
6,600 people received bread.
Visited 38 locations, 14 of them in high-risk areas.
Oleksandr D’s Volunteer Networks
Oleksandr S. (Boyarka): distributed 4 tons of food aid in Sumy.
Vladyslav K. (Mykolaiv): delivered 35 tons of drinking water to Mykolaiv, as well as 30.63 tons of fuel briquettes to 102 households in Buz’ke and 30.63 tons to 102 households in Liubomyrivka, both in the Mykolaiv Region.
Yuri S. (Vinnytsia): delivered food on 6 different occasions to 79 people staying at the Safe Space overnight shelter in Vinnytsia. Brought 10 kg of food and clothes to a family of 2 disabled people. Brought 50 kg of diapers, clothes, and apples to the Harmony rehabilitation center for people with disabilities. Brought 100 kg of clothes to a rehabilitation center for drug and alcohol addicts in Vinnytsia.
Vitaliy Z. (Kharkiv): delivered 3 tons of humanitarian kits, clothes, medicine, and animal feed to Malotaranivka, Kramatorsk District. The team came under fire while making the delivery, but fortunately no one was hurt. Distributed almost 500 loaves of “Victory” bread in Stepne, also in the Kramatorsk District.Delivered 135 tons of fuel briquettes to 450 households in Kramatorsk.
WeCare Centers (Lviv): delivered a total of 10 tons of tactical and medical equipment, and hospital beds to Lutsk, Zdolbuniv, Korosten’, Kharkiv, and Kyiv.
Oleksandr Z. (Lutsk): provided therapeutic interventions and aid to IDP children and families, children and adults with disabilities, orphans, elderly people, military service members and children from military families, and amputees in Lutsk, Ostrozhets', and other parts of the Rivne and Volyn regions. 1036 children and adults received help, including art therapy, theater therapy, music therapy, a visit to the museum and to an art presentation by the group Adaptation, sports activities, help with bread and other food, help with glasses, dental, medical, and preventive procedures, and help with the manufacture of wheelchairs for children and prostheses and rehabilitation for adults.
Darya’s Team
Darya has focused her efforts on helping Kharkiv residents who are dealing with the aftermath of Russian airstrikes.
Karina’s Team – My ryatuyemo Ukrayinu (We Save Ukraine)
113 people in the shelter, 56 of them long term.
Tetiana’s Team – Dopomoha poruch (Help Is Near)
Distributed 100 aid packages in Ternivka, Cherkasy Region.
Timur’s Team – Komanda Teymura Alyeva (Timur Alyev’s Team)
Delivered 265 aid packages in Saltivka, Kharkiv.
Special deliveries to 16 disabled elderly and 19 families with infants.
Timur’s family moved back into their damaged apartment despite a complete lack of heating.
Pavel and Olena’s Teams – Dotyk sertsya (Touch of Heart) & Svitanok mriy (Dawn of Dreams)
179 families received vegetables in the villages of Partyzans’ke and Shevchenkove.
46 tons of firewood delivered to 161 families in Liubomyrivka and Prybuz’ke.
Pomahaem Foundation (We Help Foundation)
512 new people passed through the Volos’ke shelter.
Team replaced their security officer, as their projects now focus on frontline areas of the Dnipropetrovsk Region.
531 packages delivered to families in Zaporizhzhia and Dnipropetrovsk regions.
492 people were vetted for cash aid sponsored by GFFO, with transportation and logistics cost supported by UTC.
8 trips to high-risk areas.
Marina’s Team – Daruy dobro Ukrayina (Give Good Ukraine)
150 food and hygiene packages were distributed to internally displaced people in the Saksahan territorial community.
Dina’s Team – Vilʹni lyudy, vilʹna krayina (Free People, Free Country)
Distributed 531 packages in Kanev, Kremenchuk, Poltava, Krasnokutsk, and Dnipro.
Served 980 meals in Kharkiv soup kitchen.
Bohdan’s Team — Vse robymo sami (We Do Everything Ourselves)
42 families in Zhytomyr received food and hygiene kits.
This week at the Club for Children with Disabilities, children attended culinary, fine arts, and choreography classes, and played psychological relief games.
Alena’s Team – Diva (Virgo)
Helped 34 wounded in the hospital.
353 families received bread.
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