September 17th, 2026
72,285 people evacuated from danger to date
83 people evacuated from danger this week
25 trips into deoccupied and frontline territories this week
There is not much new to report on the horrific circumstances that the people of Kherson are living with. We can only draw your attention to the fact that while we go through our peaceful lives week after week, the people of Kherson live every moment in the constant, unrelenting pressure of Russia’s terror. Here is a glimpse into their daily reality, almost too inconspicuous to report:
Overnight, an enemy drone struck a Seventh-day Adventist church, hitting the very room where the woman who looks after the building was sleeping. She suffered numerous lacerations across her body, and one small fragment lodged in her eye. Her wounds were dressed, but the fragment couldn't be removed from her eye, so she waited until morning to travel to a hospital that could do it. The hospital is in the red zone, so we drove her there and then brought her back home. Everything went well: the fragment was removed quickly, and she is now recovering from what happened that night. She was very lucky in this situation. The drone hit the windowsill, and had it struck 10 cm higher, it would have gone straight through the glass, and the consequences could have been very serious.
Lucky, indeed. Besides the team of Oleksandr U, part of Inna’s org, our Odesa volunteers are preparing another trip to Kherson.
Life after Evacuation Is Not Easy
The life of Ukraine's internally displaced refugees (IDPs) is not easy – a fact that is well understood by those people who are hesitant to leave dangerous areas for safer locations. Every story of evacuation conceals many complex threads of human need and adaptation. Ihor T. of WeCare Centers provides a good example.
The Shukshin family was forced to relocate from Kup'yans'k to Kharkiv. The married couple, their two sons and two elderly grandparents – one of whom has suffered a stroke and needs constant care – settled in a single room in a dormitory. Here they share a few stoves and bathrooms with more than two dozen other families.
After resettling, the father of the family voluntarily joined the Armed Forces of Ukraine and was later reported missing during a combat mission. HIs wife, Oksana, was left alone with her two sons, elderly parents, and all the responsibility for the family. The youngest son, Ilya, has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and stutters. He requires constant treatment, and a special pedagogical approach. Because of this, Oksana has no opportunity to find a job. In addition to material difficulties, the family has struggled with severe psychological stress and a lack of social support in their new city.
The family's situation finally took a turn for the better when they sought help from volunteers. They received bed linens, blankets, pillows, seasonal clothing and footwear, food, hygiene products, and household chemicals to help their basic needs. Later, the family also began to receive regular humanitarian and social support. Oksana attends a group for wives of missing servicemen. Ilya takes classes at the children's center, where he participates in robotics, carpentry, art, and other creative activities. Ilya has also participated in a summer camp, which gave him a chance to make new friends.
Comprehensive support has helped the family gradually adapt to a new life. Despite the difficult life circumstances associated with forced relocation, disability of an elderly family member, and the disappearance of the father, the family is gradually restoring a sense of stability.
Team Summaries
Alina H.’s Team – Dobra sprava (Good Deeds)
8 trips evacuating 38 people.
Inna’s Team – Krok z nadiyeyu (Step with Hope)
15.5 tons of aid were delivered to 6950 people.
4400 people received bread.
The team delivered aid to 29 locations, 7 of them in high-risk zones.
The Kherson team restored 6 basements and bombshelters. Refueled 7 generators in the red zones.
Oleksandr D’s Volunteer Networks
Oleksandr S. (Ukrainka): distributed 5 tons of food kits in Sumy. Delivered 3 medical beds to people with disabilities and wheelchairs and medicine to a rehabilitation center in the Chernihiv Region. Kyiv Region – delivered a medical electronic bed to a displaced person from Kherson; handed out gifts to first graders starting school and donated treadmills and a trampoline to another school in Bila Tservka; delivered an exercise bike, trampolines, and treadmills to a school in Brovary; delivered wheelchairs to a social service center in Bohuslav; children at the Restart club in the Boyarka center attended a first aid class, received gifts and a meal, and a visit from a pet rabbit.
Vladyslav K. (Mykolaiv): delivered 35 tons of drinking water to Mykolaiv.
Vitaliy Z. (Kharkiv): the team focused its activity on Kramatorsk. Delivered 4 tons of humanitarian kits, clothes, medicine, and animal feed. In a separate trip, distributed over 500 loaves of “Victory” bread. In 3 separate trips, evacuated 9 people, their belongings, 6 cats and 2 dogs.
Yuri P. (Boryslav): delivered 2.5 tons of baby food to Khmelnytskyi.
Hryhoriy M. (Tal’ne): held an event for 100 children and their parents in Ta’lne, offering 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. Held a similar event for 50 children in Kalynopil.
Alla A. (Kremenets’): provided 70 aid packages to people with disabilities. Provided psychological support to 25 internally displaced people.
WeCare Centers (Lviv):summary report for July and August. Received 70.75 tons and distributed 75.7 tons of humanitarian aid to people throughout Ukraine. In all, 8,547 people received help. Food made up the largest share of the aid – 42.25 tons. The rest was clothing and footwear, hygiene products, medicines, furniture, household appliances and other necessary items. Support was provided to internally displaced persons, families of military personnel, elderly, people with disabilities, and families experiencing difficult life circumstances.
Oksana K. (Lutsk): distributed 340 kg of adult diapers and urological pads to 58 families and 200 kg of the same to residents of the Litovez’ka territorial community (Volyn Region). Distributed 40 kg worth of baby boxes to expectant mothers. Gave a walker to an elderly woman. Donated 40 kg worth of shower caps to a nursing home.
Oleksandr Z. (Lutsk): provided therapeutic interventions and aid to internally displaced people, children and adults with disabilities, children from military families, orphans, elderly people, and amputees in Lutsk and the surrounding villages. 1,340 children and adults received help, including art therapy and music therapy, camp and 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 had a whirlwind of activity and the report below covers 16 trips she took since August 5.
Darya and her partner evacuated 54 people.
They delivered 771 food aid packages.
The evacuations and deliveries were for the villages of Rohozyanka, Prylyutove, Prosyanka, Kurochkyne, Husynka, Kasyanivka, Kutkivka, Myrne (Kharkiv region), Palamarivka, Doroshivka and Monachynivka.
Karina’s Team – My ryatuyemo Ukrayinu (We Save Ukraine)
101 people in the shelter.
Tetiana’s Team – Dopomoha poruch (Help Is Near)
Delivered 100 aid packages and hygiene products to Kramatrosk, Donetsk region.
Delivered 100 aid packages to the internally displaced refugees and disabled people in Sokolyshche, Volyn’ region.
Timur’s Team – Komanda Teymura Alyeva (Timur Alyev’s Team)
The team distributed 230 aid packages to seniors in Saltivka Kharkiv.
Special deliveries to 30 disabled elderly and 20 families with infants.
Pavel and Olena’s Teams – Dotyk sertsya (Touch of Heart) & Svitanok mriy (Dawn of Dreams)
240 packages were distributed to the people living in the villages of Myrne and Zorya.
117 IDP families from Kherson received packages in Mykolaiv.
Pomahaem Foundation (We Help Foundation)
169 people arrived in Voloske Center.
Distributed 149 hygienic product packages in Kamyanske region.
The team has started a new project distributing building materials at the bombardment sites to restore the damaged homes. 77 people received aid after Russia’s attacks last week.
Alina S.’s Team – Dity novoho pokolinnya (Children of the New Generation)
The team completed 5 trips evacuating 37 people.
Evacuees included 16 children and 21 adults.
20 people were evacuated from frontline Dnipro region and 14 people from Donetsk region and 3 from Pology in Zaporizhzhya.
Additionally the team transported 31 people mostly from shelter to the train or bus station to take recently displaced people to the next stage of their journey.
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)
438 packages of aid distributed in Kaniv, Kremenchuk, Poltava, and Dnipro.
1,630 meals served in the soup kitchen in Kharkiv.
300 packages of aid delivered to Murafa.
Alena’s Team – Diva (Virgo)
Traveled to the town of Lymany (between Mykolaiv and Kherson) and delivered 1,000 bottles of protein shakes, 200 packages of hygiene products, various shoes and glasses donated by other organizations.
Coordinated the evacuation of 43 people to Germany.
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