May 28th, 2026
70,807 people evacuated from danger to date
94 people evacuated from danger this week
29 trips into deoccupied and frontline territories this week
Once again, Russia has managed to surpass its own shameful record. Over the weekend, its largest attack to date rained down on Kyiv and Dnipro — hitting residential buildings, museums, and schools. Yet, if the intent was to break Ukrainian resolve, the result was the opposite. Ukraine's strikes on Russian military targets have only grown more painful, more precise. Many on our teams read these savage bombardments as signs of something else entirely: the cruel desperation of a tyranical regime that cannot subdue the will of a free people.
Meanwhile, our volunteers continued their daily toil. Anastasia loaded trucks with humanitarian aid for the elderly in Ukrainian-held Donbas, while Shahed drones literally flew overhead. Other teams rushed to airstrike sites, supporting people whose homes had been damaged or destroyed. All in all, Ukraine has received yet another scar, yet its volunteer movement remains as active as ever.
Stories
Volunteer Drone Close Calls Becoming More Frequent
We are seeing a troubling pattern in the reports coming from our frontline teams: close encounters with FPV drones are becoming more frequent. Ruslan, on Inna’s team, works in Ukrainian-held Donbas. He described pulling off the road at 5:00 a.m. and hiding vehicles and people under linden trees, as a cluster of drones buzzed overhead. The drones sounded just like a swarm of bees. The volunteers waited, motionless, until the drones moved off toward Kramatorsk, where two explosions followed shortly after.
Another volunteer had finished parking his evacuation bus for the night in Sloviansk, when he heard an FPV drone approaching, just as he reached his building entrance. He ducked behind a concrete wall and waited. No explosion came — only the sound of something hitting the asphalt. When the volunteer looked out, a drone lay in the road, flipped upside down, its warhead pointing skyward. It was armed with a cumulative RPG-7 charge, capable of burning through armor. The battery had separated from the drone and had landed five feet away.
Both volunteers are safe. But stories such as these are no longer exceptional — that is what concerns us.
Pidlyman Evacuation Arrives Too Late
On May 23rd, an evacuation story from the village of Pidlyman in the Kup'yans'k District ended tragically. A request for evacuation of an elderly woman had been filed with nearly every volunteer organization and relatives called every day to check on her status, but the situation in the settlement was so dangerous that neither volunteers, nor the military could get near it for two weeks. When the woman was finally evacuated to Kramatorsk, she was in very serious condition. She was then transported to a hospital in Izium, where doctors fought for her life, but were unable to save her.
Vitaliy's team delivered the body to the morgue, filled out all the necessary paperwork and arranged for cremation. Later, while driving to the morgue to pick up the body and take it to the crematorium, Vitaliy recorded this plea:
What I want to say is: people, don't wait until the military pulls you out of the basement and you have to flee with just your documents. Please understand the situation. If you're talking to the military, talking to police, and they tell you that it's better to evacuate, that means that the situation is dangerous and it's better to leave. You can leave with your refrigerator, with your washing machine. Take anything you want, but go! Don't wait to die in the heat, somewhere in a basement under the house, while being shelled by KAB missiles. Don't wait till you become a drone casualty.
Take care of your life. Life is beautiful and we should live however long is given to us. It's beautiful and we have to live now.
Team Summaries
Alina’s Team – Dobra sprava (Good Deeds)
10 trips, evacuating 47 people from Mykolaivka, Druzhkivka, Kramatorsk, and Sloviansk.
Inna’s Team – Krok z nadiyeyu (Step with Hope)
2,760 families received agricultural aid.
20.6 tons of aid delivered to 8,300 people.
4,200 people received bread.
35 locations covered, 10 of them in high-risk areas.
Kherson team cleaned and disinfected 6 spaces, continued to support 37 families in red zones with bread, and refueled 9 generators.
Another trip to Ukrainian-held Donetsk Region, evacuating 2 people.
The team continued to provide aid at the sites of Russian airstrikes.
Angelia Charitable Fund
Report for 2 weeks:
Loaded humanitarian cargo in Munich.
Distributed aid in.the village of Kobzartsi (Mykolaiv Region).
Sent humanitarian aid to Sumy and the Sumy Region, Pishchanka (Vinnytsia Region), and an orphanage in Mykolaiv.
Sent medicine to the Sumy Children’s Hospital.
Supplied a disabled veteran with an electric car, along with a charger and batteries.
Sent firefighting equipment to Sumy.
Oleksandr D’s Volunteer Networks
Oleksandr S. (Ukrainka): Kyiv Region – held a Support by the Side program in Boyarka for internally displaced people (IDPs), which aims to restore the mental and physical health of those affected by the war; distributed 250 kg of rice to the elderly and to families where husbands died, went missing in action, or were taken prisoner. Sumy Region – distributed 4 tons of aid in Konotop; distributed a total of 2 tons of food, clothing, and medicine to 120 families in the villages of Kam’yanka and Romashkove; delivered 420 kg of food and shoes to church communities for further distribution. Chernihiv Region – sent 35 food kits to people with disabilities.
Vladyslav K. (Mykolaiv): delivered 34 tons of drinking water to Mykolaiv.
Sandra S. (Odesa): the kitchen prepared and distributed over 450 portions of freshly prepared meals.
Vitaliy Z. (Kharkiv): delivered 3.5 tons of humanitarian kits, clothes, medicine, and animal feed to Kramatorsk. Several teams distributed “Victory” bread in northern Saltivka District, Kharkiv. Delivered almost 1 ton of animal food to locations in Sloviansk, Kramatorsk, Malotaranivka, and Krasnotorka to support homeless, abandoned animals and also people who have taken in abandoned strays. Evacuated an elderly couple and their belongings from Kramatorsk, ultimately to the Poltava Region. The husband, who had suffered a stroke, deteriorated during the trip and had to be taken to a hospital in Kharkiv, but survived. Evacuated an elderly woman in serious condition from the village of Pidlyman, Kup’yans’k District, but she died on the way (see story).
Yuri P. (Boryslav): delivered a total of 6-7 tons of food, clothing, and hygiene products to Ternopil, Kremenets’, Hostomel’, Ukrainka, Kaniv, and Pereyaslav.
Oleksyi P. (Kaniv): distributed 2 pallets of baby food among 86 families, single women, and babies, in the cities of Kropyvnytskyi and Kaniv. Recipients included low income people and IDPs, a maternity hospital which takes in abandoned babies, the Regional Social Center for Mother and Child, and the children’s department of the Kaniv city hospital.
Hryhoriy M. (Tal’ne): held an event for 125 children and their parents, which included psychological support, classes, singing, and a festive dinner. 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.
Oleksandr Z. (Lutsk): provided therapeutic interventions and aid to IDPs, children and adults with disabilities, children from military families, orphans, elderly people, military service members, and amputees in Lutsk and Ostrozhets' and surrounding villages of the Rivne Region. 1041 children and adults received help, including a visit to the museum, 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)
104 people in the shelter.
Tetiana’s Team – Dopomoha poruch (Help Is Near)
Delivered 150 aid packages to Shevchenkove, Kharkiv Region, near Kup’yans’k.
Distributed 120 aid packages to recent internally displaced refugees in Smila.
Provided help to people impacted by the recent drone strikes on Smila.
Natasha’s Team – Volontersʹkyy tsentr Vyshnya (Cherry Volunteer Center)
Tetiana, from Kryvyi Rih, traveled to Liubymivka, delivering 202 family packages and 72 packages for children.
Once again, Liubymivka was off limits to volunteers. Aid had to be unloaded in Vysokopillya and then delivered in small batches over three days. As of this writing, all packages have been delivered.
Timur’s Team – Komanda Teymura Alyeva (Timur Alyev’s Team)
Delivered 221 aid packages to people who were impacted by the recent rocket strikes on Kharkiv.
Special deliveries to 18 disabled elderly and 21 families with infants.
Pavel and Olena’s Teams – Dotyk sertsya (Touch of Heart) & Svitanok mriy (Dawn of Dreams)
Continued distributing aid in Mykolaiv and Kherson region villages.
100 packages delivered to Liubomyrivka.
260 families received packages in Novomykolaivka.
51 family packages delivered to families caring for children with disabilities.
Pomahaem Foundation (We Help Foundation)
121 people arrived at the Volos’ke center.
We now support a new organization, Children New Generation, which we met through our partners at Pomahaem.
Evacuated 42 people in one week — mostly from Nikopol’ and the frontline areas of the Dnipropetrovsk Region.
Marina’s Team – Daruy dobro Ukrayina (Give Good Ukraine)
150 food and hygiene packages were distributed to internally displaced people in Piatykhatky.
Dina’s Team – Vilʹni lyudy, vilʹna krayina (Free People, Free Country)
Distributed 325 packages of aid in Kaniv, Kremenchuk, Poltava, and Dnipro.
Distributed baby food to 23 families in Kremenchuk.
Served 1,590 meals in the soup kitchen in Kharkiv.
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 art and culinary classes.
Anastasia’s Team – LoveUA
Traveled to the villages of Yakovlivka, Mykhailivka, and L’vivka (all near Kramatorsk) to deliver 167 packages of food aid and 167 packages of hygiene products.
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