November 20th, 2025
69,554 people evacuated from danger to date
43 people evacuated from danger this week
34 trips into deoccupied and frontline territories this week
Stories
The Roads Are Treacherous for Drivers Delivering Firewood to Remote Areas
Inna’s team has started delivering firewood to remote villages of the Kharkiv Region. Last week the volunteers brought 39 tons of firewood to Arkadiivka, which is located 15 miles away from the front line. The village is surrounded by fields and the steppe. Then there are the wooded areas near Kup’yans’k, which have now become lethal combat zones, so firewood to the surrounding areas must be brought in from afar. The volunteers encounter many challenges in their heroic work of providing fuel to these remote areas. Here is a snapshot of one such trip that almost went wrong.
One of the peculiarities of delivery [to these areas] is that many sections of the road are torn up by heavy equipment and military vehicles. In some places there's asphalt, but in other places there's none at all. There are also unpredictable drops on the road — potholes flooded with puddles. If a person is driving the road for the first time, they can fall into one of these “water traps.”
Our driver understood that it’s dangerous to linger [on these sections] for long, but the rain made it difficult for him to fully calculate the depth of the potholes. He drove into one that was so deep that the truck sank down and hit the asphalt with its tank. The tank was dented and something fell off it, but thank God the driver made it trhough and got back safely, despite the fact that the weather right now is completely unsuitable for trips on these roads.
Amicus Ukraine Concludes 40th Trip Abroad
Most people think that doing something 40 times makes it routine, but that has certainly not been the case for the Amicus Ukraine team and their cross-border vehicle and humanitarian aid deliveries. On the team’s 40th trip abroad the volunteers brought one tractor trailer, one truck, multiple vans and several SUVs. They also picked up the VW Passat which broke down during their September trip abroad and spent over a month in the repair shop.
The team ran into delays getting into Vilnius when, despite their best efforts, several vehicles wouldn’t start. With a fresh set of batteries and a day spent on paperwork, the volunteers were able to get moving again towards Ukraine, but more breakdowns followed.
Despite these challenges, Amicus members made it to the important meeting with the finance minister of Lithuania, whose office helps to arrange these deliveries and humanitarian aid. The aid was then successfully delivered to Lutsk and from Lutsk to Kherson. Amicus Ukraine received a special award from the mayor of Bucha for their efforts.
Herding Cats
Ihor from Dobra sprava finally convinced Tetiana to evacuate from her home in Raihorodok, a settlement in the Kramatorsk District. It was difficult for Tetiana to make the decision to leave because she needed to bring her 83-year-old father with her, along with 12 cats and two dogs. This kind of evacuation isn’t typical, but Ihor was willing to try. When he reached Tetiana, he found her and her father in a makeshift shelter in the basement of their abandoned apartment building, alone with the animals. The real challenge was trying to catch the 12 cats. Ihor shared a video of his bloody hands from getting scratched and bitten, but Tetiana and he managed to save 10 out of the 12 felines and get them to safety.
Team Summaries
Alina’s Team – Dobra sprava (Good Deeds)
9 trips, evacuating 39 people, mostly from the Druzhkivka, Sviatohirsk, Mykolaiv, and Lyman areas.
Inna’s Team – Krok z nadiyeyu (Step with Hope)
39 tons of firewood delivered to Arkadiivka, located less than 15 miles away from the front line (see story above).
7,900 people received aid.
6,600 people received bread.
20.3 tons of total aid distributed.
Volunteers reached 11 high-risk zones with varying proximity to the front.
Kherson team conducted cleanup and disinfection in 7 spaces.
The Kherson team also delivered fuel to Kherson red zones: for 4 families in one neighborhood and to 4 high-rise buildings in the pummeled Ostriv neighborhood.
29 families received bread in Kherson red zones.
Angelia Charitable Fund
Distributed 140 packages of bread for toast and sandwiches to 70 internally displaced people (IDPs) in Cherkasy, and another 140 packages to 70 people in Kanev, and in the Cherkasy Region villages of Ozeryshche, Lipyave, and Lytvynets’.
Distributed clothing to 110 IDPs in Lipyave and Lytvynets’.
Distributed part of 1 pallet of rice and soy to 70 IDPs in Kaniv, Ozeryshche, Lipyave, and Lytvynets’ and transferred the rest to the Druzhbolandia Foundation in Tal’ne (also Cherkasy Region), which organizes lunches and programs at the Adventist church for 500 children from low-income families every Saturday.
Distributed 1 pallet of baby food among 50 people. These included IDPs in Kaniv, the Kaniv Baby House, low-income families in Tal’ne (supported through the Druzhbolandia Foundation), as well as 2 low-income families – 1 from Bucha, and another from Opishnya – which had babies who were failing to gain weight and lagging behind in development.
Oleksandr D’s Volunteer Networks
Oleksandr S. (Boyarka): report for 2 weeks. Sumy Region: distributed 50 kg of baby food in various places in the region. Donated 20 kg of medical baby food to the children's hospital in Lebedyn and 30 kg to the maternity hospital in Sumy. Delivered and distributed 1,000 food kits in Okhtyrka. 80 families received aid. Chernihiv Region: distributed 240 kg of baby food in Novhorod-Sivers'kyi where families suffer from constant shelling, and in other parts of the region. Delivered medicine to vulnerable segments of the population in the region. Kyiv Region: prepared and conducted a “Support Nearby” social and psychological event for internally displaced people (IDPs) in Boyarka. 30 families attended the event and received 600 kg of aid. Distributed 80 kg of baby food to families affected by war in Yasnohorodka and Makariv.
Vladyslav K. (Mykolaiv): delivered 35 tons of drinking water to Mykolaiv.
Andriy P. (Mykolaiv): delivered 15 tons of aid from Chernivtsi to Mykolaiv, including apples and pears, tables, chairs, lockers for schools and preschools, groceries, medicines, clothes and shoes.100 boxes of the apples and pears have been distributed in the Mykolaiv Region. 1 pallet of the aid was sent on to Zaporizhzhia, and another pallet was sent to the Krok z nadiyeyu team in Dnipro. In addition, the team delivered 1 bus bought from abroad to Kherson, and another bus to Ochakiv.
Sandra S. (Odesa): the kitchen has continued to prepare and serve fresh meals despite numerous and unpredictable power outages. Sometimes the volunteers ask to use their neighbors’ kitchen. Other times they wait for the power to come back on and finish cooking at the train station where they serve food..
Vitaliy Z. (Kharkiv): delivered 4 tons of humanitarian kits, clothes, medicine, and animal feed to Krasnotorka, in the Kramatorsk District. Many people who have been displaced from other locations shelter here. Brought over 700 loaves of “Victory” bread to the Morozivka, Borodoyars'ke, Rakivka, and Vil'khuvatka villages of the Izium District. Villagers contact the team ahead of time on social media to make sure there is enough bread for everyone. Brought 1 ton of overalls, boots, spare parts for fire engines, and other important materials to a unit of the State Emergency Service in the Izium District.These rescue workers respond to emergencies under shelling, put out fires and rescue locals in the most difficult conditions.
Artiom S. (Hostomel’): evacuated a family from Kramatorsk and another from Sloviansk.The second family is an older couple who the team had previously evacuated from near Bakhmut.
Oksana K. (Lutsk): distributed 111 kg of adult diapers and urological pads, as well as 50 kg of clothing and shoes to 32 visitors to the team’s aid distribution point in Lutsk. Sent food to an orphanage in Oleksandria, Kirovohrad Region.
Oleksandr Z. (Lutsk): provided therapeutic interventions and aid to IDP children and families, children and adults with disabilities, children from military families, orphans, elderly people, military service members, and amputees in Lutsk, Ostrozhets, and other villages of the Rivne Region. 878 children and adults received help, including art therapy, zootherapy, help with bread and other food, help with glasses, medical and preventive procedures, rides to medical appointments,visits to the theater and to a museum, and help with the manufacture of prostheses and rehabilitation.
Karina’s Team – My ryatuyemo Ukrayinu (We Save Ukraine)
97 people in the shelter.
Tetiana’s Team – Dopomoha poruch (Help Is Near)
Distributed 100 aid packages to recent internally displaced refugees in Smila.
Natasha’s Team – Volontersʹkyy tsentr Vyshnya (Cherry Volunteer Center)
Tetiana from Kryvyi Rih delivered 210 packages to the villages of traveled to two Kherson Region villages, Knyazivka and Novohryhorivs’ke in the Kherson Region.
Separately, 70 children received special packages for children.
Timur’s Team – Komanda Teymura Alyeva (Timur Alyev’s Team)
Distributed 297 aid packages to seniors in Saltivka, Kharkiv.
Special deliveries to 18 disabled elderly and 27 families with infants.
Evacuated several people from the village of Osinovo near Kup’yans’k, which is under constant shelling.
Pavel and Olena’s Teams – Dotyk sertsya (Touch of Heart) & Svitanok mriy (Dawn of Dreams)
200 families received aid in Partyzanske and Kvitneve — villages located between Kherson and Mykolaiv.
Pomahaem Foundation (We Help Foundation)
254 people arrived in the transit shelter in Volos’ke.
Made 10 trips to provide aid to 697 families in frontline zones near Nikopol’, in Zaporizhzhia, and in Samar (Dnipropetrovsk Region).
Marina’s Team – Daruy dobro 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)
Distributed 270 packages in Poltava, Kanev, and Kremenchuk.
Mailed 5 packages to families in small towns.
Kharkiv soup kitchen served 1,180 meals.
Bohdan’s Team — Vse robymo sami (We Do Everything Ourselves)
42 families in Zhytomyr received food and hygiene kits.
At the club for children with disabilities, children played psychological relief games and attended culinary classes.
Alena’s Team – Diva (Virgo)
Helped 38 wounded in the hospital.
Distributed donated bread products to 217 families.
Traveled to 5 small towns in the Kherson Region, delivering packages of hygiene and household products, as well as 8 packages of yogurt each to 262 displaced households.
Amicus Ukraine
Returned to Ukraine with 7 vehicles from abroad, including a tractor trailer. The vehicles were loaded with humanitarian aid.
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