October 8th, 2026
72,588 people evacuated from danger to date
80 people evacuated from danger this week
25 trips into deoccupied and frontline territories this week
Evacuation Report form Dobra Sprava
Even while battling illness and a fever, Igor took on an evacuation from southern Kramatorsk that tested every ounce of his strength. With elevators long out of service and neighbors gone, he carried a family’s entire packed life down five flights of stairs more than twenty times on his own, helping little Emilia, her mother Olena, and her grandmother escape the increasingly dangerous frontline city. The exhausting labor melted into warmth on the journey out: bright and deeply curious, young Emilia stayed close by Igor’s side, holding his hand, watching intently as he navigated the bus, and gently resting her hand on his shoulder while trying to coax fellow passengers into letting her hold their cats. That childlike affection and easy innocence brought a quiet sense of peace to a grueling mission, and Emilia and her family are now resting in relative safety.
Rodent control at two private homes in the red zone.
We're heading into the red zone. So you understand what the red zone is: this used to be our main street, the one you'd take to drive to Oleshky, which everyone is talking about now. It's overgrown, but people still live here. We were called in to help because the closer you get to the red zone, and inside the red zone itself, the worse the mouse problem gets. They chew through floors and walls and get into all the food. In the red zone this is a really serious problem. So we're starting now, in the red zone, while the drones aren't flying. That's our window of opportunity. Of course, you can't drive here; you can only come on foot.
Team Summaries
Alina H.’s Team – Dobra sprava (Good Deeds)
8 trips evacuating 46 people (mostly elderly residents, along with children) from Kramatorsk and Sloviansk.
Inna’s Team – Krok z nadiyeyu (Step with Hope)
14.8 tons of aid delivered to 6,550 people.
4200 people received bread.
Team reached 32 locations 8 of them in high-risk areas.
Kherson team performed rodent control ops in 8 large basements refueled 2 generators in Kherson red zones.
Oleksandr D’s Volunteer Networks
Vladyslav K. (Mykolaiv): delivered 35 tons of drinking water to Mykolaiv.
Vitaliy Z. (Kharkiv): delivered 3.5 tons of humanitarian kits, clothes, medicine, and animal feed to Sloviansk. In a separate trip, also to Sloviansk, distributed almost 500 loaves of “Victory” bread. Delivered almost 1,200 1.5 liter bottles of drinking water to police units, which assist the team in performing evacuations.
Sandra S. (Odesa): the kitchen crew prepared 600 freshly prepared meals. The team also managed to purchase enough disposable plastic dishware for the near future. Volunteers had been very worried about running out of the plastic dishes they use to serve the meals, because the local factory that makes plasticware was recently damaged in a shelling..
Alla A. (Kremenets’): distributed 256 assistance certificates to people with disabilities, low income people, single mothers, and large families. As part of Project Resilience, held art, knitting, and psychological support sessions for people from vulnerable groups.
Yuri P. (Boryslav): delivered a total of 3 tons of men’s winter clothing to Dobrotvir, Lutsk, Ostroh, Obukhiv, and Pereiaslav.
Hryhoriy M. (Tal’ne): held an event for 150 children in Ta’lne, offering a Thanksgiving Day celebration, psychological support, classes, singing, games, and meals to children from large families, orphans, and children of fallen soldiers. Transportation was provided for children from the surrounding villages. Also held a meeting for 30 children in Kalynopil.
Oksana K. (Lutsk): distributed adult diapers and urological pads to 49 mostly seriously ill people. Provided 2 baby boxes to new mothers.
Oleksandr D. (Lutsk): received 1 ton of wheat and barley flakes from Ternopil and passed these on to Oksana K’s team for further distribution to people with disabilities and low income individuals. More people in Lutsk are learning about the work of the volunteers and bringing their own donations to the aid distribution point.
Oleksandr Z. (Lutsk): provided therapeutic interventions and aid to internally displaced people (IDPs), children and adults with disabilities, children from military families, orphans, elderly people, and amputees in Lutsk and the surrounding villages. 1,372 children and adults received help, including art therapy, music therapy, and 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.
Darya’s Team
Darya took 6 trips to frontline zone near Kupyansk
Evacuated 24 people from the villages of Borova , Bohuslavka, Velykyy Burluk, Kutkivka, Kasyanivka, Stetskivka, Shypuvate.
Delivered 298 packages, 20 gallons of water , a generator, hygienic products, and medicine to the villages of Kutkivka, Ksyanivka, Sonino, Hryhorivka, Rohozyanka, Stetskivka and Shypuvate.
Karina’s Team – My ryatuyemo Ukrayinu (We Save Ukraine)
104 people in the shelter.
Tetiana’s Team – Dopomoha poruch (Help Is Near)
Distributed 160 aid packages in Smila.
Mailed 40 aid packages to Kramatorsk.
Natasha’s Team – Volontersʹkyy tsentr Vyshnya (Cherry Volunteer Center)
Natasha’s trip was postponed due to difficulties sourcing aid, because of the delays caused by Russia’s attacks on civilian warehouses.
Timur’s Team – Komanda Teymura Alyeva (Timur Alyev’s Team)
The team distributed 232 aid packages to seniors in Saltivka Kharkiv.
Special deliveries to 46 disabled elderly and 18 families with infants.
Pavel and Olena’s Teams – Dotyk sertsya (Touch of Heart) & Svitanok mriy (Dawn of Dreams)
272 people were helped in the villages of Luch, Dobrokamyanka and Novopavlivske.
23 tons of firewood transported to the village of Lubomyrivka.
Pomahaem Foundation (We Help Foundation)
88 people arrived at Voloske transit shelter last week.
455 aid packages delivered to Kamyanske, and Lubymivka.
Alina S.’s Team – Dity novoho pokolinnya (Children of the New Generation)
Team took a break from evacuations last week, fixing vehicles and letting drivers take some time off
Assisted 7 people with transportation in central Ukraine.
Marina’s Team – Daruy dobrо Ukrayina (Give Good Ukraine)
Food and hygiene kits were distributed to 150 internally displaced families in Pyatikhatki.
Dina’s Team – Vilʹni lyudy, vilʹna krayina (Free People, Free Country)
Distributed 273 packages of aid in Kaniv, Kremenchuk, Poltava.
Served 1,550 meals in the soup kitchen in Kharkiv.
Delivered 250 packages of aid to Stariy Saltiv.
Bohdan’s Team – Vse robymo sami (We Do Everything Ourselves)
42 families in Zhytomyr received food and hygiene kits.
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