June 11th, 2026
70,881 people evacuated from danger to date
74 people evacuated from danger this week
26 trips into deoccupied and frontline territories this week
As we weave together the various threads of our work at Ukraine TrustChain, we find ourselves at an unusual moment in the history of this brutal war. For the first time since 2022, there is a sense that Ukraine is finally able to inflict real pain on Russia — pain that might at last stir the Russians from their long slumber of helpless indifference. It is unlikely that so thoroughly oppressed a society will find the courage to rebel, but it may yet apply the kind of pressure that could, in the end, persuade Russia's tyrant to halt the slaughter.
We watch Ukraine's success — its defensive operations, its strikes against Russian infrastructure — with both pride and hope. Yet this hope carries a price. As the Russian leadership grows more desperate, it turns its pain and frustration on those innocent civilians in Ukraine it can still reach. These are precisely the same people around whom we have built our work — the elderly and disabled holding on in frontline communities, the displaced sheltering in villages and towns nearby, the evacuees trying to start a new life.
For them, the situation is harder than it has ever been. The roads to the Ukrainian-held Donbas and to areas near the front have never been so dangerous. The stream of evacuees keeps swelling, and the shelter networks strain to take in each new wave.
And still our teams carry on their daily work. While UTC provides steady, predictable support, the Ukrainian volunteers we sponsor keep reorienting toward the most urgent directions. The work itself is unchanged. It has only become more dangerous, and more closely shaped, day by day, by the shifting reality of the front.
Stories
The Situation is Worsening
Every week we receive a report from Dobra sprava that starts with the words “The situation is worsening.” This week, the report went on to qualify: “We know we say this every week, but that’s really what it feels like when we compare each week to the previous one.”
Local administrations are validating this impression by announcing a mandatory evacuation of families with children from 151 streets in Sloviansk, 72 streets in Kramatorsk, and the entire nearby villages of Malotaranivka and Pryvillya. The maternity ward of the Slovinsk hospital is ceasing operations, and most of the banks are shutting their branches.
An Evacuation in Reverse
Ukraine’s volunteer movement is not homogenous. The people in it understand their missions very differently. Some are devoted above all to helping people, any people, regardless of who those people happen to be; others are committed first and foremost to aiding Ukraine in its fight against the Russian invasion. These different principled callings often coexist side by side on the same team.
The following quest was undertaken by one of our volunteer teams made up of Christian believers, who focus on helping specific people regardless of the people’s moral or political stance. A man asked to be taken from the relative safety of the Dnipropetrovsk Region into Kramatorsk — a proud, embattled fortress in Ukrainian-held Donbas, which has withstood Russian assault for four long years. The man was being released from prison, where he had served time for a non-violent crime. His parents were still in Kramatorsk. He didn’t think he would be able to persuade the parents to leave, and was afraid of never seeing them again if he didn’t go back himself.
The trouble was that the man could not make his way from the prison to Kramatorsk on public transporation. Bus stops near prison gates are a favored spot for checkpoints of the draft enforcement police. The odds were high that a bus ride from prison would land the man directly in boot camp. This is why the man reached out to our volunteer team, hoping that a sympathetic person would be willing to collect him at the gate of the prison and take him to see his parents.
To his surprise, the man found the understanding he sought. The volunteers verified what they could about the man’s parents in Kramatorsk, weighed the situation, and decided to help. One of our volunteers, already heading back to Kramatorsk for his regular weekly humanitarian mission, picked up the man up and brought him safely to his parents' door.
Team Summaries
Alina’s Team – Dobra sprava (Good Deeds)
10 trips evacuating 43 people.
Inna’s Team – Krok z nadiyeyu (Step with Hope)
20.1 tons of aid delivered to 7,950 people.
4,200 people received bread.
Aid reached 30 villages and towns, 10 of them in high-risk zones.
Kherson team disinfected 6 large basements and bomb shelters.
Continued to refuel generators in Kherson red zone.
Evacuated 2 people from Kherson to Kyiv.
Evacuated 1 person from Kramatorsk.
Oleksandr D’s Volunteer Networks
Oleksandr S. (Ukrainka): report for 2 weeks. Distributed 1 ton worth of food kits to 80 people in Kozatske, Sumy Region. Delivered summer shoes and baby food from the warehouse in Ukrainka to the Boyar Humanitarian Headquarters, for further distribution among the socially vulnerable population. Sent 170 kg of food products and baby food to disabled people in Zaporizhzhia. Transferred 35 kg of baby food for targeted assistance to families in border areas of the Chernihiv Region and 20 kg of baby food to the Chernihiv Educational and Rehabilitation Center No. 2. Also delivered 800 kg of clothing and footwear to the Chernihiv Region, for distribution among victims of war. Distributed baby food in various locations in the Sumy, Chenihiv and Kyiv regions. Gave out a total of 100,000 in vouchers for groceries. Transferred baby food and hygiene products to a boarding house for the elderly, for distribution to residents on special diets.
Vladyslav K. (Mykolaiv): delivered 35 tons of drinking water to Mykolaiv.
Vitaliy Z. (Kharkiv): delivered 4 tons of humanitarian kits, clothes, medicine, and animal feed to Krasnotorka. Distributed almost 500 loaves of “Victory” bread in Kramatorsk. Delivered almost 1 ton of animal food to various locations, to support homeless, abandoned animals and people who have been taking care of them. This ongoing aid helps the abandoned animals to survive another day in difficult conditions.
Serhiy A. (Kharkiv): report for May. Distributed more than 300 food kits to the blind and visually impaired residents of Kharkiv, Zaporizhia, Pavlohrad, Kamianse, Kramatorsk, and Kryvyi Rih.
Yuri P. (Boryslav): delivered a total of 3 tons of baby food, yogurts, cookies, tea, strollers and playpens to families with young children in Khmelnytskyi and Ternopil.
Hryhoriy M. (Tal’ne): held an event for 90 children and their parents, which included psychological support, classes, singing, and dessert. The attending children included those from large families, orphans, and children of fallen military members. Transportation was provided for children from the surrounding villages and towns, who couldn’t get to the event on their own.
Oksana K. (Lutsk): helped a seriously ill father of a soldier with adult diapers. Provided 20-30 kg of food support to a large family of displaced people (IDPs) who have recently relocated to the region. Delivered 25 kg of cookies, yogurts, and other dairy products to a military hospital in Lutsk. Provided a sick grandmother with a walker and adult diapers.
Oleksandr Z. (Lutsk): provided therapeutic interventions and aid to IDPs, children and adults with disabilities, children from military families, orphans, elderly people, and amputees in Lutsk and Ostrozhets' and surrounding villages of the Rivne Region. 1110 children and adults received help, including a visit to the theater, art therapy, music therapy, zootherapy, sports activities, help with bread and other food, meals served at a social cafe, 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)
111 people in the shelter.
Tetiana’s Team – Dopomoha poruch (Help Is Near)
Sent 120 aid packages, bedsheets, toys and sweets to internally displaced refugees in the village of Synove, Volyn Region.
Timur’s Team – Komanda Teymura Alyeva (Timur Alyev’s Team)
Delivered 277 packages of aid to seniors in Saltivka, Kharkiv.
Special deliveries to 43 disabled elderly and 18 families with infants.
Pavel and Olena’s Teams – Dotyk sertsya (Touch of Heart) & Svitanok mriy (Dawn of Dreams)
155 families received aid packages in Shevchenkove and Novohryhorivka.
Pomahaem Foundation (We Help Foundation)
97 people arrive in Volos’ke center.
The Children New Generation team we began supporting through Pomahaem evacuated 14 people from the frontline part of the Dnipropetrovsk Region and 6 people, including 2 children, from Kramatorsk.
Marina’s Team – Daruy dobro Ukrayina (Give Good Ukraine)
150 food and hygiene packages distributed to internally displaced people in Zhovti Vody.
Dina’s Team – Vilʹni lyudy, vilʹna krayina (Free People, Free Country)
Distributed 421 packages in Kaniv, Kremenchuk, Poltava, and Dnipro.
Served 1,560 meals in the soup kitchen in Kharkiv.
Delivered 450 packages to Karlivka, Sharivka, and Murafa.
Bohdan’s Team — Vse robymo sami (We Do Everything Ourselves)
42 food and hygiene kits distributed to families in Zhytomyr.
At the Club for Children with Disabilities, children attended developmental and culinary classes.
100 children celerated International Children's Day at the House of Joy.
Summer camp started for children this week. It is the 10th anniversary of the summer camp program for disabled children in Bohdan's organization.
Alena’s Team – Diva (Virgo)
Traveled to Kherson to deliver donated yogurt to 350 households with children.
Distributed bread in Odesa to 346 families.
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