October 22nd, 2026
72,751 people evacuated from danger to date
47 people evacuated from danger this week
29 trips into deoccupied and frontline territories this week
We want to thank our community for your increase in donations over the past two weeks. We understand that, for many people, supporting humanitarian work in Ukraine is one of the few meaningful and effective ways to channel frustration with the current opportunistic, shortsighted, and unprincipled US foreign policy toward Russia.
Your help matters. When our Ukrainian teams tell us about mornings filled with smoke and explosions and describe the destruction they witness on their missions, it means the world to them to hear that their work can continue. Your tangible support allows our volunteers to see beyond the byzantine rhetoric of politicians to people in the West who see Ukrainians, stand with them, and make sure their life-saving work goes on. As Ukraine enters what may be the hardest winter of this war, we are grateful that our teams remain in place, with the resources they need to continue their heroic daily work.
With gratitude,
The Ukraine TrustChain US Operations Team
Stories
Kherson Volunteer Hub Destroyed
The volunteer hub of our Kherson team was recently attacked by three glide bombs. Miraculously, nobody was hurt at the site, though there were casualties in nearby houses. In previous years, our US team had visited the center; we broke bread with our Kherson friends there. As with all other instances when Russians bombs destroy, not some random house, but a place we have known and visited, this attack highlights the terrible brutality of Russian atrocities against civilians. This was not a military object, and neither are the schools, churches, and apartment buildings that Russia targets daily. The Russian military machine systematically destroys places that sustain human dignity and life — places where children can still smile, and adults can take a break from the horrors of everyday life in Kherson.
Dobra Sprava Hosts an American Volunteer
This week, James, an American volunteer from Portland, joined the Dobra sprava team on their evacuation missions, amid intensifying bombardments across the Ukrainan-held parts of the Donetsk Region. Navigating Kramatorsk and Sloviansk has grown extraordinarily perilous. The roads are littered with the burned-out husks of vehicles, destroyed by relentless drone strikes, and routes require drivers to forgo seatbelts for split-second escapes.
The extreme danger peaked during a rescue run into Cherevkivka, a district now reachable only by a fragile, crumbling dirt dam over the Kazennyi Torets River. With the team's Chuyka drone detector beeping continuously, evacuees were loaded under immediate threat, while enemy drones buzzed nearby.
As the team began their exit, a warning from a terrified local alerted them to an incoming strike drone, traveling low beneath the protective anti-drone netting. With nowhere to turn and knowing that stationary vehicles serve as immediate targets, the evacuation bus surged forward. Just then a massive explosion ripped through the road a mere fifty meters ahead. Piercing the smoke at full throttle, the crew successfully brought their passengers across the precarious dam to safety.
Catching their breath afterward, Ihor gently told James that leaving just one minute earlier would have meant a direct hit. He called this day James’ second birthday. Deeply moved by James's fearless, sincere desire to help save lives, Ihor nonetheless made the personal decision that he could not gamble a foreign guest's safety, or divide his own tactical focus under fire. James agreed to redirect his energy toward supporting humanitarian aid from the safer hub of Dnipro, alongside Anastasia’s team, LoveUA.
Team Summaries
Alina H.’s Team – Dobra sprava (Good Deeds)
Evacuated 36 people in the course of 7 trips.
Inna’s Team – Krok z nadiyeyu (Step with Hope)
15 tons of aid distributed to 6,450 people.
4,200 people received bread.
Aid reached 34 locations, 13 of them in high-risk areas.
Kherson's team performed pest control in 4 large basements and bomb shelters.
Refueled 9 generators in Kherson red zones.
Visited Davydiv Brid in the Kherson Region.
Evacuated 2 people from Zaporizhzhia.
Oleksandr D’s Volunteer Networks
Vladyslav K. (Mykolaiv): delivered 35 tons of drinking water to Mykolaiv.
Sandra S. (Odesa): the team cooked and distributed 800 freshly cooked meals at the Odesa train station.
Vitaliy Z. (Kharkiv): delivered 3.5 tons of humanitarian kits, clothes, medicine, and animal feed to Sloviansk. Distributed 500 loaves of “Victory” bread in Kramatorsk. Delivered walkers, wheelchairs, and other mobility devices to applicants in Kharkiv and the Kharkiv Region.
Artem S. (Hostomel’): distributed 1.4 tons of food aid to about 200 people in the villages of Horenka and Moshchun in the Hostomel’ territorial community.
Alla A. (Kremenets’): distributed certificates of 500 hryvnias to 60 people, including pensioners and people with disabilities, as well as people living alone who need support. Distributed clothes to 40 people. Provided psychological support to 45 people.
Yuri P. (Boryslav): delivered a total of 7 tons of new clothing and bread to Chernivtsi, Uman, Buzivka, and Odesa.
Hryhoriy M. (Tal’ne): held an event for 100 children and their parents from Ta’lne and the surrounding villages, plus 28 children from Kalynopil. The children received psychological support, attended classes, sang, played games, and ate delicious meals. The participants are children from large families, orphans, children of fallen soldiers, and children from families in difficult circumstances.
Oleksandr D. (Lutsk): Received a Mitsubishi Pajero, brought by volunteer Andriy P. from Germany. Delivered the vehicle, plus 300 kg of muesli and energy bars, to Pavlo B.’s group in Zaporizhia. The food aid will be distributed as needed by Palvo’s team.
Oleksandr Z. (Lutsk): provided therapeutic interventions and aid to internally displaced people (IDPs), children and adults with disabilities, orphans, elderly people, military service members, and amputees in Lutsk and the surrounding villages and towsn. 1,370 children and adults received help, including art therapy, music therapy, theater therapy, hydrotherapy, sports activities, 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)
113 people in the shelter.
Tetiana’s Team – Dopomoha poruch (Help Is Near)
Distributed 150 aid packages in the village of Odnorobivka, Kharkiv Region.
Distributed 50 aid packages to old and disabled people in Smila, via the Department of Social Services.
Mailed 68 aid packages to Kramatorsk and internally displaced families in other locations requesting aid.
Natasha’s Team – Volontersʹkyy tsentr Vyshnya (Cherry Volunteer Center)
Tetiana from Kryvyi Rih traveled to Liubymivka, delivering 205 packages of hygienic products and household chemical products, and 75 packages for children.
Timur’s Team – Komanda Teymura Alyeva (Timur Alyev’s Team)
Distributed 241 aid packages to seniors in Saltivka, Kharkiv.
Special deliveries to 26 disabled elderly and 18 families with infants.
Pavel and Olena’s Teams – Dotyk sertsya (Touch of Heart) & Svitanok mriy (Dawn of Dreams)
239 aid packages delivered to Partyzanske, Kvitneve and Novohryhorivka — villages between Mykolaiv and Kherson.
Pomahaem Foundation (We Help Foundation)
63 people arrived at the Volos’ke transit hub.
466 packages distributed in Kamianske and to recent refugees from Dobropillia in Dnipro.
Alina S.’s Team – Dity novoho pokolinnya (Children of the New Generation)
Evacuated 9 people over 5 trips.
Provided transportation to other regions of Ukraine to 20 people.
Marina’s Team – Daruy dobrо Ukrayina (Give Good Ukraine)
150 food and hygiene packages distributed to internally displaced people in Piatykhatky.
Dina’s Team – Vilʹni lyudy, vilʹna krayina (Free People, Free Country)
Distributed 272 packages in Kaniv, Kremenchuk, and Poltava.
Served 1,420 meals in the soup kitchen in Kharkiv.
Delivered 100 packages of aid to Kotel’va.
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 сulinary class.
Alena’s Team – Diva (Virgo)
Distributed donated bread and milk to 321 families in Odesa.
Anastasia’s Team – LoveUA
Delivered 121 packages of food and 121 packages of household goods to Zoloti Prudy.
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