72,751 people evacuated from danger to date
47 people evacuated from danger this week
29 trips into deoccupied and frontline territories this week
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Stories
Oleshky Evacuation
Update from Our Kherson Volunteer Oleksandr U regarding the Bombing of their humanitarian hub.
At four in the morning, 8 powerful explosions rang out in the Shumenskyi neighborhood. My first thought was that the thermal power plant had been hit. But closer to 7 a.m., photos started coming in from people who live near our humanitarian headquarters. The damage is extensive: almost no window or door survived, and the fence was twisted like a rag. Two aerial bombs fell right into the courtyard itself, and a third landed nearby.
This building housed not only our headquarters but also a church and a school, and many children came here for practice and to spend their time well: playing tennis, using the playground, playing board games. In short, everything had been set up so that children could play and adults could receive help. And in a single moment, it was as if everything stopped.
It was very frightening to drive there and see it all in person. Seeing it simply left me speechless. But the whole team decided that this will not stop us. We must keep helping people and be a light in the darkness.
We spent the whole week clearing rubble, boarding up windows, and installing doors. The building is intact, and its structural shell is untouched. Everything else we will restore, and we will remember this period as a hardship we came through with our heads held high. In the first week, we managed to completely clear the debris out of all the rooms, install doors on the ground floor, and board up the ground-floor windows so that no one could break in.
The work continues. There is still a lot to be done ahead…
Lyman: one delivery, the whole war
We have supported Lyman since the earliest battles for the city. Few places on the Eastern front have been more dangerous. Our first trusted partner, Natalya Mitsuta, has stood by the residents of this small town and its surrounding villages as Russia’s relentless terror reduced them to ruins.
The situation grew far worse in January 2025, when Russian forces crossed the Zherebets River. From then on, driving aid into the city was too dangerous. Residents began leaving Lyman on foot. Natalya met them with warm clothes, soap, shampoo, and food for those who settled in Sloviansk and Kramatorsk. For the people who stayed behind in the villages around Lyman, her packages rode in armored vehicles heading to the front, dropped off along the way.
In the last few months, everything changed. Ukraine’s remarkable Operation Vivaldi drove Russian forces back from Lyman. Supplies can now reach some villages more easily. But life in all of them has only grown more dangerous, as Russia tries in desperation to retake the area or burn it to the ground. The battle goes on today.
This past week, Natalya’s aid packages began arriving by drone and by unmanned ground vehicle.
It never stops amazing us how something as simple as delivering food, soap, and detergent can mirror the entire war: the unthinkable suffering of civilians, the brutality of the invaders, and the constant technological innovation that now touches every part of this fight.
Two Vignettes from Kramatorsk
For Vitaliy’s team, this week’s trip to Kramatorsk brought both fear and joy. On one hand, a woman who had just received food enthusiastically thanked the volunteers, telling them how she looked forward to feeding everyone and making the children happy. A neighbor, whom the woman tried to hush, also remarked that “tomorrow” was the woman’s birthday. We’re happy that she will have a little something to celebrate.
On the other hand, during an evacuation, also from Kramatorsk, the team was followed by an enemy drone for 15 minutes, until members of the Ukrainian Armed Forces shot it down. One of the volunteers was visibly shaken, as she pointed out the burning drone in the background of the video and explained that this drone had been hunting the evacuation van.
Team Summaries
Alina H.’s Team – Dobra sprava (Good Deeds)
7 trips evacuating 32 people.
Inna’s Team – Krok z nadiyeyu (Step with Hope)
5950 people received aid.
The bread deliveries were interrupted by technical delays.
14.4 tons of aid distributed.
Aid reached 20 towns, 5 of them in high-risk zones.
The Kherson team was restoring their space after Russian bombings.
The Kherson team refueled 9 generators in the red zone, pest control in 3 spaces.
Provided help to the shelter in Shakhtarske, housing 110 people.
Angelia Charitable Fund
Report for October:
Sent fire extinguishers, medical supplies, and food products to an NGO in Lviv for further distribution.
Distributed backpacks, clothing, and comfort items to children at an orphanage.
Sent mattresses and wheelchairs for the elderly and disabled, warm clothing, muesli, and energy bars to Nikopol’.
Distributed clothing and footwear, crutches and mobility aids,and bedding and mattresses in Sumy and the Sumy Region.
Distributed food, warm clothing and shoes, bedding, and games and children’s items in Mykolaiv.
Delivered 300 kg of muesli and milk to Hryhoriy M. 's team in Tal’ne.
Delivered a large quantity of humanitarian cargo to Kharkiv, Mykolaiv, Dnipro, Kryvyi Rih, and Svitovods’k to support internally displaced people (IDPs). The aid included mobility and rehabilitation equipment: wheelchairs, specialized equipment for people with disabilities and people undergoing rehabilitation, adult diapers and urological pads, household appliances and household items, blankets, pillows and textiles, clothing and footwear, food aid, and backpacks and other items for children.
Received a shipment of muesli from an NGO in Lviv for further distribution.
Traveled to several cities in Germany to bring back humanitarian aid. Cities included Munich, Lüneburg (4 tons received), Zwickau, and Pritzwalk. The aid included specialized electric massage and rehabilitation tables, other mobility and rehabilitation equipment: wheelchairs and walkers, food, clothing, and fo
Oleksandr D’s Volunteer Networks
Oleksandr S. (Ukrainka): report for 2 weeks. Vinnytsia Region – delivered 1.5 tons of used clothing, shoes, food, medical supplies, and hygiene products to various locations; sent 120 kg of shoes, literature, and toys to children at the Dashiv orphanage and school. City of Vinnytsia – sent an 80 kg Nuro self-driving delivery vehicle to an amputee; provided 150 kg of humanitarian aid to internally displaced people (IDPs). Chernihiv Region – delivered 70 kg of food aid to locations in the region; provided a walker and a wheelchair to a man with disabilities in Novhorod-Sivers’kyi. Kyiv Region – delivered 70 kg of baby food to a Kyiv hospital for children with cancer; delivered a 100 kg ultrasound machine to a hospital in Obukhiv; received 350 kg of clothes and food products at the Boyarka warehouse for further distribution; received 2.5 tons of medical beds, mattresses, clothes, and linens in Kyiv from Lviv, for further distribution. Unspecified regions – sent 50 kg of medical supplies for 2 stabilization points in the east; sent 250 kg of baby food and hygiene products to a home for disabled children.
Sandra S. (Odesa):prepared and distributed 500 freshly cooked meals at the Odesa train station. Some meals were distributed to homebound people, through partner volunteers and organizations.
Andriy P. (Mykolaiv): brought 7 vehicles and pieces of automotive equipment from abroad, loaded with humanitarian aid, and delivered all to Mykolaiv. The humanitarian aid included 15 solar panels, 8 pieces of furniture, 10 boxes of hygiene products, 25 boxes of diapers, 45 tires, 50 boxes of clothing and shoes, 15 boxes of dishware, 20 boxes of medicines, 15 boxes of tools, 15 boxes of toys, 10 boxes of groceries, 10 boxes of bedding, and 30 packages to be mailed to individuals.
Vitaliy Z. (Kharkiv): delivered 3.5 tons of humanitarian kits, clothes, medicine, and animal feed to Kramatorsk. Distributed almost 500 loaves of “Victory” bread in Sloviansk. Evacuated 1 woman from Kramatorsk and 1 man and his beloved cat from Stepne.
Yuri P. (Boryslav): delivered a total of 3.5 tons of new clothing and fortified rice mixture to Odesa, Uman, and Rivne.
Hryhoriy M. (Tal’ne): held a festive and supportive event for 20 children in the village of Smolino, Kirovohrad Region. At the conclusion of the event each child received gifts, food sets and sweets. The participants were children from large families, orphans, children of fallen soldiers, and children from families in difficult circumstances.
Oksana K. (Lutsk): provided a walker to an elderly woman and a wheelchair to another woman who broke her leg. Delivered oxygen cylinders and various treats to the Lutsk rescue service. Delivered instant cereal, adult diapers and urological pads, and shower caps to a nursing home in Kolky, Volyn Region. Received cold medicine from Poland for further distribution. Distributed 400 kg of adult diapers and urological pads to 85 people with illnesses and disabilities.
Oleksandr D. (Lutsk): volunteer Volodymyr H. traveled to Germany, bringing back 1 large stove, 5 washing machines, 1 water heater, 1 electric stove, 2 lawn mowers, 10 boxes of clothes and food, 10 fire extinguishers, and tires for volunteer cars. Some of this aid has already been sent to Kyiv, Chernihiv, and Dnipro. The rest will be kept in Lutsk for further distribution, or awaiting requests.
Oleksandr Z. (Lutsk): provided therapeutic interventions and aid to IDPs, children and adults with disabilities, orphans, elderly people, and amputees in Lutsk and the surrounding villages and towns. 1,367 children and adults received help,including, art therapy, music therapy, theater therapy, hydrotherapy, sports activities, a visit to the museum, 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.
Darya’s Team
Darya visited 10 high risk locations over the past two weeks.
7 people evacuated.
Winter prep is under way. Darya managed to deliver 15 potbelly stoves.
They distributed 686 food packages, as well as diapers, medicine and hygienic products.
Darya covered the villages of Kivsharivka,, Kasianivka, Kutkivka, Stetskivka, Prylutove, Rohozyanka, Shypuvate, Prosyanka, Vyshnivka, and Rozdolne.
Karina’s Team – My ryatuyemo Ukrayinu (We Save Ukraine)
96 people in the shelter.
Tetiana’s Team – Dopomoha poruch (Help Is Near)
Distributed 140 aid packages to recently internally displaced refugees in Smila.
Distributed 120 aid packages in Salovka, Dnipro region.
Timur’s Team – Komanda Teymura Alyeva (Timur Alyev’s Team)
The team distributed 293 aid packages to seniors in Saltivka Kharkiv.
Special deliveries to 34 disabled elderly and 19 families with infants.
Pavel and Olena’s Teams – Dotyk sertsya (Touch of Heart) & Svitanok mriy (Dawn of Dreams)
The team continued providing help to the villages between Kherson and Mykolaiv. 272 families were helped in Afansivka, Zorya and Shevchenkove.
Pomahaem Foundation (We Help Foundation)
93 people arrived in Voloske transit hub.
Provided aid packages to 563 people in Shostka near Sumy, Synelnykove, Kamyanske.
The team has worked at the site of Russia’s airstrikes that are increasingly frequent in Dnipro.
Alina S.’s Team – Dity novoho pokolinnya (Children of the New Generation)
The team made 10 trips evacuating 22 people, including 10 children.
21 people were evacuated from Shakhtarsk, Pokrovske, Malomykhaylivka and Mezhova in Dnipro region, and one person from Kramatorsk.
The team continued assisting IDPs with transportation inside Ukraine helping 13 people.
Marina’s Team – Daruy dobrо Ukrayina (Give Good Ukraine)
150 food and hygiene packages were distributed to internally displaced people in Pyatikhatki.
Dina’s Team – Vilʹni lyudy, vilʹna krayina (Free People, Free Country)
Distributed 368 packages of aid in Kaniv, Kremenchuk, Poltava, Dnipro.
Served 1450 meals in the soup kitchen in Kharkiv.
Bohdan’s Team – Vse robymo sami (We Do Everything Ourselves)
Food and hygiene kits were distributed to 42 families in Zhytomyr.
At the club for children with disabilities, kids had culinary classes and art classes.
Alena’s Team – Diva (Virgo)
Distributed bread to 317 families in Odesa.
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