November 6th, 2025
69,468 people evacuated from danger to date
47 people evacuated from danger this week
35 trips into deoccupied and frontline territories this week
Stories
Darya from Kharkiv
In the summary section of this week’s newsletter, you’ll find a new section called Darya’s Team. The section may be new, but Darya is not a new connection for Ukraine TrustChain – we have been supporting her missions since 2022. Darya is a friend of Kseniia’s. She does not have her own NGO, but, until recently, operated under Kseniia’s organization. Kseniia has shifted her priorities, now concentrating almost exclusively on helping the military, so it was time to give Darya her own section.
Week after week Darya has traveled to Kup’yans’k and the most dangerous villages near the Kharkiv Region frontline. She continues her selfless work: evacuating people from the frontline and delivering aid to the most desperate places suffering from daily shelling. We’ve always been extremely proud to support Darya, but know how much this work drains her. If it wasn’t for this war, Darya would go back to running her thriving state-of-the-art bar in Kharkiv, a legendary establishment that has won awards for Darya’s exquisite bartending.
Evacuating Art and Cultural Legacy
The war destroys not only homes, but cultural artifcats and people’s life work. Volunteer Vasiliy recently reported on a local artist in Druzhkivka, who was planning to evacuate with his family. The artist asked the volunteers to save and temporarily store 20 of his unique paintings. The volunteers agreed, much to the artist’s relief:
Immense gratitude to your team for your willingness to help and for evacuating the paintings. I don’t want this art to perish at the hands of the horde. I hope the paintings cam be saved for future generations. Huge thank you, once again.
The People Behind the Bullet Points
Oleksii and Olena are raising three children in the village of Pechenihy. Located on the banks of the Siverskyi Donets River in the Kharkiv Region, Pechenihy was in the red zone at the start of the full scale invasion — the river and its reservoir forming the only barriers that prevented the occupiers from entering the settlement immediately at the start of hostilities.
To escape the horrors of constant shelling, the family evacuated to Kharkiv, but after deoccupation returned to their native village. However, life there wasn’t easy. Oleksii’s nd Olena’s former workplace had been destroyed, leaving them without income and in great need of assistance — especially for heating their home during winter.
Hardworking and resilient, they managed to grow vegetables in their garden and make preserves thanks to our Agricultural Project, but firewood remained a serious problem.
Our support with firewood brought new hope to this family — the hope that their home will now stay warm.
Help in Occupied Territories
A volunteer brought diapers and other vital necessities to a recent widow and her disabled son in an occupied territory.
Team Summaries
Alina’s Team – Dobra sprava (Good Deeds)
10 trips, evacuating 47 people, 12 of them children, primarily from the Druzhkivka, Oleksijevo-Druzhkivka, Mykolaiv, Svyatohirsk, Sloviansk, and Kramatorsk areas.
Inna’s Team – Krok z nadiyeyu (Step with Hope)
20.6 tons of aid delivered to 7,850 people.
6,600 people received bread.
88 tons of firewood (126 cubic meters) delivered to 63 families.
Kherson team performed pest control in 5 large basements, including a warehouse used to store humanitarian aid.
Kherson team provided maintenance to 10 generators, most of them working in Kherson red zone.
Delivered aid to 23 families in Kherson red zone.
168 families received aid in Shevchenkove, near Kup’yans’k.
Overall, help reached 33 locations, 14 of them in high-risk areas.
Angelia Charitable Fund
Volodymyr T. and Vadym brought aid from Hamm and Zwickau in Germany to Ukraine.
Wheelchairs, stretchers, clothes, shoes, antiseptics, crutches, shower lifts, diapers, and bed linens were sent to Kharkiv; children's clothes, shoes, toys, and blankets were sent to Mykolaiv; stretchers were sent to Mukachevo, and lifts for the disabled were sent to the Bukovynska chereshenka wellness complex in the Carpathian Mountains.
Oleksandr D’s Volunteer Networks
Oleksandr S. (Boyarka): report for 2 weeks. Kyiv Region: received 2,250 kg of food at the Boyarka Humanitarian Headquarters for distribution to socially vulnerable segments of the population. Provided a walker to a refugee grandmother. Chernihiv Region: sent 200 kg of baby food to the infectious disease department of a children's hospital, 50 kg to the regional center for socio-psychological assistance, and 100 kg to a training and rehabilitation center. Delivered 1 ton of second-hand clothes for adults, children's toys, and food sets to Horodnya. Donetsk Region: loaded 2.5 tons of food bound for war victims in Kramatorsk. Sumy Region: delivered 70 kg of baby food to children’s hospitals in Sumy and 120 kg to the medical and sanitary aid center in Krolevets’. Delivered 1 ton of groceries to Hlukhiv and 1.2 tons of food kits to Lebedyn. Kherson: distributed 2.5 tons of food kits to internally displaced people (IDPs) and war victims.
Yuri S. (Vinnytsia): sent food to disabled people in Poltava. Twice, delivered food to 13 people at the “Safe Space” homeless night shelter in Vinnytsia.
Sandra S. (Odesa): report for 2 weeks. Despite power outages, the kitchen fed more than 700 people, both at the train station and through partner teams that deliver food to IDPs and bedridden patients. The team thanks kind neighbors who let the volunteers use their gas stove when the electricity went out..
Andryi P. (Mykolaiv): brought an IVECO truck, loaded with 95 tires, for use along the Kharkiv direction.
Vitaliy Z. (Kharkiv): finished drilling a well in the village of Malotaranivka, near Kramatorsk.This village is very close to the front lines and has been without a local supply of drinking water since 2023. Residents have been living on bottled water up till now. Delivered 3.5 tons of humanitarian kits, clothes, medicine, and animal feed to Yasnohirka, also near Kramatorsk. Brought over 500 loaves of “Victory” bread to the unoccupied village of Vil'khuvatka, Izium District, where people are just starting to rebuild their lives after prolonged hostilities.
Serhiy A. (Kharkiv): distributed a total of 500 food kits to the blind and visually impaired population in the following cities and regions: Odesa, Uman, Bar, Mogilev, Podolsk, Kharkiv, Kramatorsk, and Khmelnytskyi Region.
Artiom S. (Hostomel’): delivered 2.2 tons of food, clothes, shoes, children's beds and mattresses to Levkhiv, Zhytomyr Region. Distributed food packages, clothes, and shoes to 350 people from low-income families in Hostomel’.
WeCare Centers (Lviv): delivered a total of 3.5-4 tons of pasta, barley porridge, and baby food to Khmelnytskyi, Pereyaslav, Odesa, Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, and other locations.
Oleksandr D. (Lutsk):brought 2 dryers and 2 washing machines from Germany. These will eventually be delivered to Alla A’s rehabilitation center in Kremenets’, but for now they are still in Lutsk. Also brought 700 kg of energy bars, some of which were sent to Cherkasy, to be distributed to children and IDPs in aid centers in the Cherkasy, Poltava and Kirovohrad regions.
Oksana K. (Lutsk): distributed adult diapers and urological pads to over 27 elderly people and people with various health problems. Delivered treats, agricultural supplies, and garbage cans for the local hospital to the village of Lytovezh, Volyn Region. Handed out 163 kg of adult diapers and urological pads, and 80 kg of clothing, shoes, toys, and bedspreads, to 43 visitors at the team’s humanitarian distribution point in Lutsk.
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 and villages of the Rivne Region. 809 children and adults received help, including art therapy classes, help with bread and other food, a “public cafe” serving meals, outings to a theater and a museum, help with glasses, medical and preventive procedures, and help with the manufacture of prostheses and rehabilitation.
Darya’s Team
Darya returned from a successful evacuation trip on Sunday, but hasen’t recovered yet to provide the counts of evacuees. We will provide these numbers in the coming weeks.
Karina’s Team – My ryatuyemo Ukrayinu (We Save Ukraine)
112 people in the shelter.
Tetiana’s Team – Dopomoha poruch (Help Is Near)
Distributed 80 aid packages and hygiene products in Smila.
Natasha’s Team – Volontersʹkyy tsentr Vyshnya (Cherry Volunteer Center)
Tetiana from Kryvyi Rih delivered 215 packages to Khreshchenivka, Shevchenkivka, and Petrivka in the Kherson Region.
Distributed aid to 60 children.
Timur’s Team – Komanda Teymura Alyeva (Timur Alyev’s Team)
Delivered aid packages to 296 refugee families from Kup’yans’k and the village of Lyptsi.
Pavel and Olena’s Teams – Dotyk sertsya (Touch of Heart) & Svitanok mriy (Dawn of Dreams)
350 families received aid in Luch and Kyselivka.
50 children with disabilities received aid through the Mykolaiv office.
The team unloaded a truck of aid provided by Samaritan’s Purse.
Pomahaem Foundation (We Help Foundation)
350 new residents passed through the Volos’ke transit center.
Made 2 trips in the direction of Kup’yans’k, to Shevchenkove, delivering 188 packages.
Made 2 trips to the Zaporizhzhia Region, delivering 90 packages.
Delivered 111 packages to shelters and other locations in the Dnipropetrovsk Region.
The team is actively coordinating with other volunteer groups in the Dnipropetrovsk Region, working on IDP support for the recent wave of evacuations.
Marina’s Team – Daruy dobro Ukrayina (Give Good Ukraine)
150 food and hygiene packages were distributed to internally displaced people in P'yatykhatky and Zhovti Vody.
Dina’s Team – Vilʹni lyudy, vilʹna krayina (Free People, Free Country)
Distributed 273 packages in Poltava, Kanev, and Kremenchuk.
Kremenchuk aid center received 3 tons of donated goods from Kengurush in Kyiv.
Mailed 150 packages from Dnipro to internally displaced families in small towns.
Kharkiv soup kitchen served 1,490 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, childen took a field trip to the Carpathian Mountains, played psychological relief games and attended culinary classes.
Alena’s Team – Diva (Virgo)
Helped 32 wounded in Odesa hospital.
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