June 19th, 2025
68,195 people evacuated from danger to date
61 people evacuated from danger this week
37 trips into deoccupied and frontline territories this week
This week, the Dobra sprava evacuation team shared this message with us to pass along to you, our dear supporters.
When people who are being evacuated see the Ukraine TrustChain logos on our vans, they ask about this organization. We tell them about our friends, the American team Ukraine TrustChain, and ordinary, caring Americans who donate and understand the critical situation in Ukraine, who sincerely empathize with our circumstances and support our country in its pursuit to be a free and independent state. We say that it is thanks to you that local residents are able to evacuate free of charge and save their own lives and the lives of their loved ones.
After we tell them all this, we always hear a request from these rescued people to pass on their sincere words of gratitude to the Americans and to the Ukraine TrustChain team, which we are now gladly doing. For our part, we once again want to affirm that we are proud of our friendship with your team and of our mutual good deeds, and we join the words of gratitude from the rescued Ukrainians to the caring people of America.
Stories
Evacuation from Kherson’s Red Zone
One of our Kherson teams tells the following story:
Mr. Serhiy and his family reached out to us for help approximately six months ago. They live in the red zone, very close to the Dnipro River. There is almost no electricity in this area, as the enemy destroys all infrastructure, leaving the civilian population without means to have the kind of normal life to which we are so accustomed.
The family consists of a father, with his daughter and another small child. Despite our attempts to persuade them to leave this area, the family refused. Living in such conditions, they desperately needed a generator, which the Krok z nadiyeyu (Step with Hope) charitable foundation provided. Every day we refueled that generator, so that people would have at least eight hours of light per day. One of the children studies online at school — for her, a charged device is a path to knowledge.
But this week, the enemy attacked the street where the family lived. A neighboring house was completely destroyed. The windows in Mr. Serhiy's house were blown out, a wall in the garage was demolished, and the roof, walls, and doors were damaged by shrapnel. Thank God, no one was hurt. The family immediately packed their belongings, waited until morning, and called us asking for evacuation.
At this moment, all members of Serhiy's family are safe and without injuries. We evacuated everyone along with their essential belongings.
Hazardous Aid to the Kherson Region
Tetiana P is our longtime partner and friend from Kryvyi Rih. From the very start of the war she has worked with Natalia to deliver aid to the Kherson Region. Early last week she traveled to three villages in the Northeast of the region, delivering 230 packages with hygienic products and 60 aid packages for children. Though the trip was again successful and went without a hitch, the subtle details Tetiana reported speak of the growing risks that we see all across the frontline. The increase in the quantity and quality of drones that can now travel up to 20 miles from the launch site substantially increases the zone where volunteers feel unsafe.
To approach the villages, Tetiana had to take an off road path, guided by village representatives. The asphalt road was too risky on a sunny day. Two days earlier a local woman was severely injured by a Russian drone, losing a leg and part of her breast. The atmosphere in the village was tense as well. Four houses in the village have been damaged by Shahed drones and in the fields around the village it is clear that the Ukrainian army is preparing for a possible attack from across the river. Yet the distribution went well and the people were upbeat and happy to come together for once, to see one another, to laugh and joke together.
Help in Occupied Territories
82 family packages were distributed in four occupied towns.
Team Summaries
Alina’s Team – Dobra sprava (Good Deeds)
13 trips, evacuating 58 people from Kostyantynivka, Myrnohrad, Shakhove, Druzhkivka, Lyman, and Novoekonomichne areas.
Inna’s Team – Krok z nadiyeyu (Step with Hope)
21.6 tons of aid distributed to 8,300 people.
6,600 people received bread.
10 high-risk frontline areas trips last week.
Kherson efforts:
Evacuated 3 people from Kherson’s “red zone.”
Rodent and insect infestation cleared in 8 spaces.
Completed 8 generator maintenance tasks.
Angelia Charitable Fund
Yuri B delivered 1,800 kg of breakfast cereals to Bila Tserkva.
Volodymyr A brought 1,370 kg of used clothing and shoes, milk, breakfast cereals, and medical outfits and supplies from Lüneburg, Germany to Kyiv.
Oleksandr D’s Volunteer Networks
Oleksandr S (Boyarka): report for 2 weeks. Delivered 500 kg of milk for baby food to the Volunteer Together warehouse in Ukrainka for further distribution among families affected by military aggression. Delivered 2 tons of food kits and also hygiene products for children to the Sumy Region. Distributed 1.5 tons of food, clothing, and toys in Novhorod-Sivers'kyi. Delivered 2.5 tons of humanitarian aid to Shostka (Sumy Region).
Vladyslav K (Mykolaiv): delivered 40 tons of drinking water to Mykolaiv and 7 to Kherson. People are very worried that the team will stop transporting water at some point.
Andryi P (Mykolaiv): brought the following vehicles and car parts from abroad – 2008 Ford Transit van, an engine, a 2008 Toyota RAV-4 SUV, delivered to Zaporizhia, a 2008 Volkswagen Transporter T5, delivered to Sumy, and a 2009 Hyundai Santa Fe SUV, delivered to Khakiv, Three other cars, which the team had been preparing, left early on Sunday for Kharkiv and a van was sent to Pokrovsk. Along with the vehicles, Andryi brought 1 ton of humanitarian aid from abroad, including 4 cast iron stoves, 2 washing machines, 1 dishwasher, 6 pieces of furniture, 5 boxes of hygiene products, 8 power tools, 7 boxes of clothes, 5 boxes of shoes, and 3 bicycles.
Alla A (Kremenets’): through project Resilience, provided psychological training and support to 80 people, including students, teachers, bereaved families, and Social Security and Pension Fund employees.
Vitaliy Z (Kharkiv): delivered 3.5 tons of humanitarian kits, clothes, medicine, and animal feed to Kostyantynivka in very dangerous conditions. Distributed 500 loaves of “Victory” bread in Borshchahivka, Balakliya District.
Artiom S (Hostomel’): distributed 870 kg of grapes in Hostomel’ and Bucha.
Oleksandr D (Lutsk): volunteer Vadym T brought 1 ton of energy bars from Germany to Lutsk. 2 pallets of these bars were sent on to Inna’s team Krok z nadiyeyu in Dnipro, for their work with internally displaced people (IDPs) and in front-line regions. Another pallet was sent to Vladyslav K in Mykolaiv, for IDPs in Kherson, Mykolaiv and Odesa. 150 kg went to Oksana K in Lutsk, to the Christian primary school, and to the Ark church.
Oksana K (Lutsk): distributed clothes to local residents who were injured as a result of a rocket strike on a residential building. Sent 50 kg of syringes to Chernivtsi to an aid center for mothers and children. Handed out 42 kg of clothing and shoes, and 63 kg of adult diapers and urological pads to 18 visitors at the aid center in Lutsk. Sent medicine for stomach pain to Zaporizhia, Kherson, and Ukrainka.
Oleksandr Z (Lutsk): provided therapeutic interventions and aid to IDP children and families, children with disabilities, orphans, and amputees – held 2 art therapy sessions for a total of 62 children with disabilities and 1 hippotherapy session for 27 children. (Hippotherapy is a form of physical, occupational and speech therapy in which a therapist uses the characteristic movements of a horse to provide sensory input.) Attended a concert with 65 IDP children. Distributed bread and other food to 70 orphaned students from the Sumy and Kherson regions and to 380 other people living in IDP assistance centers. Provided glasses for 36 adults and children. Conducted examinations and physiotherapy procedures for IDP children from Zaporizhia, Donetsk, and Kherson regions.Conducted 83 medical and preventive procedures for the recovery of 24 IDP children with disabilities from the Kherson Region. Helped 39 children with prophylactic health procedures, physiotherapy, hydrotherapy, and gym classes. Through partners, assisted in the manufacture of prostheses and rehabilitation for 28 people.
Kseniia’s Team – Livyy bereh (Left Bank)
Darya in Kharkiv is prepping for another frontline delivery near Kup’yans’k.
Karina’s Team – My ryatuyemo Ukrayinu (We Save Ukraine)
92 people in the shelter.
Tetiana’s Team – Dopomoha poruch (Help Is Near)
Distributed 150 aid packages and hygiene products in Odnorobivka Persha, Kharkiv Region.
Delivered 130 aid packages to Krutoyarivka, to be distributed in Kramatorsk, Donetsk Region.
Natasha’s Team – Volontersʹkyy tsentr Vyshnya (Cherry Volunteer Center)
Tetiana from Kryvyi Rih traveled to the Kherson Region. Distributed 230 family packages and 60 children’s packages in the villages of Khreshchenivka, Shevchenkovke and Petrivka.
Timur’s Team – Komanda Teymura Alyeva (Timur Alyev’s Team)
Distributed 323 aid packages to elderly in Saltivka, Kharkiv.
Special home deliveries to 18 families with infants and 23 disabled elderly.
Pavel and Olena’s Teams – Dotyk sertsya (Touch of Heart) & Svitanok mriy (Dawn of Dreams)
270 packages delivered to deoccupied villages North of Kherson (Kyselivka and Partyzans’ke).
The team’s project to distribute tools suffered a setback as a Russian rocket hit a warehouse where these tools were stored. The stock is being replenished; deliveries are expected to complete this week.
Pomahaem Foundation (We Help Foundation)
Delivered 450 packages to 3 villages in the Synel'nykove District of the Dnipropetrovsk Region: Vasyl’kivka, Andriivka, Katerynivka.
Delivered 24 tons of water to Nikopol. The team made an additional trip to take water samples and conduct routine inspection of distribution sites to ensure safety and sanitary conditions.
Delivered a busload of aid to Shevchenkove village near Kup’yans’k, Kharkiv Region.
Marina’s Team – Daruy dobrо Ukrayina (Give Good Ukraine)
150 food and hygiene packages were distributed to internally displaced people in Zhovti Vody.
Dina’s Team — Vilʹni lyudy, vilʹna krayina (Free People, Free Country)
568 packages distributed in Kremenchuk, Poltava, Kanev, and Dnipro. 100 more were mailed out from Dnipro to small towns.
The soup kitchen in Kharkiv served 1,740 meals.
The Kharkiv team delivered 100 aid packages to Zlatopil.
Bohdan’s Team — Vse robymo sami (We Do Everything Ourselves)
42 families in Zhytomyr received food and hygiene kits.
The organization's House of Joy launched its summer camp for children with disabilities.
This week, the children made pierogi, visited the firefighters museum, the amusement park, and the children’s library, and enjoyed time at the game center.
Alena’s Team – Diva (Virgo)
430 families in Odesa received bread.
Helping 50 wounded in the hospital.
Anastasia’s Team – LoveUA
247 food and 247 hygiene packages delivered to Studenok.
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