72,949 people evacuated from danger to date
50 people evacuated from danger this week
24 trips into deoccupied and frontline territories this week
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Stories
Featuring the Women of Dobra Sprava
Conditions in Sloviansk and Kramatorsk remain exceptionally difficult, due to ongoing shelling, freezing temperatures, and severe disruptions to heating, electricity, and water supplies. Days after the Dobra sprava team completed eight successful evacuations across the region, a targeted strike on local infrastructure tore through a high-pressure gas pipeline, lighting up the night sky in an apocalyptic crimson glow and leaving over 50,000 households without gas or heat. Yet, amid this deliberate winter terror, our incredible volunteers Alina and Dasha braved the hazardous roads to successfully get an eight-month pregnant woman, her young daughter, and their pets out of harm's way, to the relative safety in the Poltava Region.
Alina and Dasha of Dobra sprava
“The tears came again, but they were different tears.”
Slavik leads Inna’s volunteer team in Nikopol’, a frontline city only a few miles from Russian positions across the river. Earlier this year, Slavik woke up to find his trusted warhorse — his van — burned out by an overnight drone strike. For years this vehicle had carried food, water, medicine, glasses and baby formula to the families of villages all across the local area — families and solitary pensioners for whom Slavik’s team serves as a crucial lifeline. With the van’s demise, it seemed like these deliveries might also come to an end.
Slavik feels other people’s suffering very deeply, and this new blow hit him hard. In his despair, he summarized for us how he felt:
That’s it, Lord. I can’t go on. My strength is gone. I’ve given everything I had, down to the last drop.
But this story has a happier ending. Thanks to your generous support we were able to replace Slavik’s lost vehicle with a sturdy, used all-wheel-drive SUV, built for the broken roads of the region. The next morning Slavik was already driving the new van to the village of Zhovte, loaded with groceries and wheelchairs. His report this time was unusually hopeful:
The tears came again, but they were different tears. It was grace, washing away all the exhaustion, all the ashes, all the doubt.
Team Summaries
Alina H.’s Team – Dobra sprava (Good Deeds)
8 trips, evacuating 29 people and several pets.
Inna’s Team – Krok z nadiyeyu (Step with Hope)
Delivered 14.6 tons of aid.
5,750 people received aid; 4400 people received bread.
Aid reached 25 locations, including 7 high-risk zones.
Kherson's team performed pest control in 2 bomb shelters.
Refueled one generator in the red zones.
Oleksandr D’s Volunteer Networks
Oleksandr S. (Ukrainka): report for 2 weeks. Kyiv Region – delivered a medical bed and anti-bedsore mattresses to a paralyzed person in Obukhiv and medical equipment and hygiene supplies to people with disabilities in other locations; delivered clothes and toys to large internally displaced (IDP) families in Boyarka; received a 750 kg shipment of medical goods and pallets of long-lasting bread in Ukrainka for further distribution; delivered bread and equipment for the Restart Children's Club in Boyarka, where IDP children get help with restoring physical and mental health; offered a Support by Your Side program and distributed bread to people affected by military operations. Chernihiv Region – delivered 900 kg of clothing and footwear to Pryluky; delivered medical equipment and hygiene products and distributed 180 kg of baby food, bread, shoes, and rice elsewhere in the region. Sumy Region – delivered 2.5 tons of food and clothing to Hlukhiv and Shostka. Unspecified region – delivered baby food to a hospital for children being treated for serious diseases; delivred 200 kg of toys and clothes to a residential school for children with disabilities, IDPs, and orphans.
Vladyslav K. (Mykolaiv): delivered 34 tons of water to Mykolaiv.
Andriy P. (Mykolaiv): delivered an incubator for premature babies and 12 packages of baby food to the district hospital and maternity ward. Distributed 3 tons of imported apples and pears to communities in Mykolaiv, Kherson, and Ochakiv. Sent 12 boxes of fruit to Dnipro for the Inna’s team Krok z nadiyeyu and 12 boxes to Zaporizhzhia, for distribution by Pavlo B.’s team. Distributed food aid to 40 people in Matviivka and Bashtanka.
Vitaliy Z. (Kharkiv): delivered 3 tons of humanitarian kits, clothes, medicine, and animal feed to Sloviansk. Distributed almost 500 loaves of “Victory” bread, also in Sloviansk. Provided mobility devices to people with low mobility in Kharkiv.
Artem S. (Hostomel’): delivered 1.9 tons of food products, clothes, and an electric toilet seat to the village of Levkiv, Zhytomyr Region. Provided aid to 250 people in Horenka, Moshchun, and Hostomel’.
Yuri P. (Boryslav): delivered a total of 11 tons of potatoes to Ternopil, Uman, Khmelnytskyi, Chernivtsi, and Buzivka.
Alla A. (Kremenets’): provided 70 people with grocery store certificates, clothes, shoes, and psychological support. Special attention was paid to orphans, children and families who are in difficult life circumstances.
Oksana K. (Lutsk): distributed 90 kg of adult diapers and urological pads to 19 families with sick relatives. Provided a large family with baby boxes and sweets.
Oleksandr Z. (Lutsk): provided therapeutic interventions and aid to IDPs, children and adults with disabilities, children from military families and from large families, orphans, elderly people, and amputees in Lutsk and remote areas of the Rivne and Volyn regions. 1,306 children and adults received help,including, art therapy, music therapy, theater therapy, hydrotherapy, sports activities, a visit to the theater, help with bread and other food, 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, 55 of them long-term residents.
Timur’s Team – Komanda Teymura Alyeva (Timur Alyev’s Team)
Distributed 279 aid packages to seniors in Saltivka, Kharkiv.
Special deliveries to 33 disabled elderly and 10 families with infants.
A special volunteer has traveled a long way to join the team. More information and stories to be shared next week.
Pavel and Olena’s Teams – Dotyk sertsya (Touch of Heart) & Svitanok mriy (Dawn of Dreams)
152 packages delivered to Myrne and Dobrokamyanka.
Pomahaem Foundation (We Help Foundation)
65 people arrived at the Volos’ke shelter.
602 hygienic packages distributed in Dnipro, Pavlohrad and Kamianske. The packages were funded by a different nonprofit, with UTC covering logistics.
Held support groups for parents and children in Afanasiivka and Mykolaiv.
Alina S.’s Team – Dity novoho pokolinnya (Children of the New Generation)
Took 6 trips, evacuating 21 people, including 5 children.
15 people came from the Dnipropetrovsk Region and 6 from Kramatorsk.
Marina’s Team – Daruy dobrо Ukrayina (Give Good Ukraine)
Food and hygiene kits were distributed to 150 internally displaced families in Zhovti Vody.
Dina’s Team – Vilʹni lyudy, vilʹna krayina (Free People, Free Country)
Distributed 275 packages of aid in Kaniv, Kremenchuk, and Poltava.
Served 1,530 meals in the soup kitchen in Kharkiv.
Delivered bread to 700 families in Staryi Saltiv.
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 a culinary class.
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