April 24th, 2025
67,695 people evacuated from danger to date
59 people evacuated from danger this week
44 trips into deoccupied and frontline territories this week
Last Sunday Ukraine celebrated Easter. This holiday holds special significance for Ukrainians, especially during the war. Easter is not only a focal point for Ukrainian culture and an opportunity to show love for Ukrainian folk traditions and language, but is also infused with very relevant symbolism, giving people hope for resurrection and triumph of good over evil.
Our Ukrainian team reports were mixed. It seemed that the fighting in the Donetsk Region indeed subsided during Easter (as Russia and Ukraine entered a 30 hour truce). The volunteers bet on this slowdown and their bet paid off in the Donbas, as they were able to deliver more aid to key towns such as Lyman and Kostyantynivka. At the same time, Kherson was attacked on Easter. And the week overall was marked by vicious attacks on Dnipro, Poltava, Kharkiv, and Odesa. The war goes on.
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Easter Deliveries
Our teams continue to support Nikopol and surrounding villages. Karina’s team traveled to small frontline towns near Nikopol to deliver aid in time for the Easter holiday. The situation there is risky, as Russian FPV drones routinely make it into the settlements. It is essential to make a quick delivery and drive away as fast as possible. Most of the remaining residents are elderly. Tatyana says she could see fear, gratitude, and hope in their eyes as they held her hands and told her that they were grateful not to be forgotten on Easter.
Meanwhile, Nikopol volunteers on Inna’s team continue to live in the city, helping people locally. Below is an excerpt from their conversation with one of the aid recipients, describing the simple and subtly horrifying life of Nikopol residents. Ms. Natalia shares:
I live together with my son. He has a disability. He's 42 years old, and unfortunately can't find employment. We don't want to leave, fear of the unknown stops us. Here we have housing, we have pensions, and now we have water thanks to you. Everything is our own, familiar, even the air... During shelling, we hide behind two walls. Instead of glass, our windows are covered with film and fiberboard. We've been living like this for the third winter now, since our house was hit. People say there's no point in installing glass because you never know when it will hit again. We collect water here three times a week — Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday: I take two bottles, and my son takes two. It's enough for us to make borsch, tea, and compote.
Dobra Sprava Evacuation Report
The security situation has significantly worsened in the Lyman direction, so evacuation efforts this week focused there. The team collaborates with the White Angels, a special unit of national police with armored vehicles. They are able to go where civilian volunteers cannot, and hand people off to slightly safer territories for further transport. Among the evacuees this week was a family with 10-year-old Denys. This was their second evacuation with Dobra sprava. The first was from their hometown of Drobysheve, just before it was occupied in 2022. After liberation, they had nowhere to return to. Their home had been destroyed by Russian forces. They found temporary shelter in nearby Novoselivka, but that village now lies just 12 km from the front line, and the family was forced to flee again. Their cat Murchyk and dog Rex came with them. The family is now headed to Khmelnytsky Region.
Agricultural Project Update
The distribution of seeds is in full swing. We are particularly proud that this project is reaching rural communities in frontline regions, where home-grown food is particularly important for people’s sense of connection and security, as supply to these villages is vulnerable to Russian attacks. One of the volunteers on Inna’s Nikolol team tells this story:
Larisa is a native of the city of Marhanets’. We once visited her, providing her with mobility aids she desperately needed. Because of this, today she was able to come for seeds. Seeing her brought us joy, because we understood how much we managed to do for this person and how significant our help was for her.
As of today, the distribution of seed material in this area is complete. We have covered a total of 800 households. Distribution was carried out at nine locations, including Nikopol, Marhanets’ and nearby villages. We are grateful to the sponsors for their support of the long-suffering Nikopol District.
Help in Occupied Territories
85 aid packages distributed in three occupied towns.
Team Summaries
Alina’s Team – Dobra sprava (Good Deeds)
12 trips, with 58 people evacuated.
Inna’s Team – Krok z nadiyeyu (Step with Hope)
22 tons of aid delivered to 8,150 people.
6,600 people received bread.
Visited 16 high-risk areas: Kherson, 6 villages near Beryslav, 7 frontline towns in Donetsk Region, Nikopol, and Marhanets’.
Conducted seed distributions in Beryslav area villages.
UTC supported car repairs for the vehicles involved in aid transportation: 6 vehicles total.
Kherson operations:
Refueled 16 generators.
Cleaned 1 basement space.
The team reached Lyman, delivering seeds and humanitarian aid.
Set up a mobile tent at the site of Russia’s terrorist attacks on Dnipro.
Angelia Charitable Fund
Volodymyr A. brought 1,115 kg of used clothing, shoes, walkers, dry breakfasts and energy bars, medicine and diapers from Germany to Kyiv.
Volodymyr also delivered aid to the local center in Mykolaiv, to be distributed in villages within the Mykolaiv Region.
Oleksandr D’s Volunteer Networks
Oleksandr S (Boyarka): delivered 250 kg of clothing to Makariv (Kyiv Region), 100 kg of aid to Illintsi (Vinnytsia Region), and 250 kg of clothing and footwear to various locations in the Kyiv and Chernihiv regions. Distributed 600 kg of diapers and baby food for IDP children at the Boyarka distribution center. Sumy Region: delivered 2 tons of food kits and other humanitarian aid to the Okhtyrka District, near the Russian border; sent 150 kg of baby food, diapers, children’s literature and toys to an emergency services agency; evacuated about 34 people with their belongings from the Krasnopillya District. Evacuees included pensioners and 4 children.
Vladyslav K (Mykolaiv): delivered 35 tons of drinking water to Mykolaiv and 7 tons to Kherson.
Sandra S (Odesa): the kitchen fed more than 700 people.
Yuri S (Vinnytsia): twice delivered disposable tableware to the Safe Space shelter in Vinnytsia, and food to a family of disabled people.
WeCare Centers (Lviv): brought 18 tons of potatoes from Germany, for distribution around Ukraine. Delivered 700 kg of clothing to each of the following cities: Lutsk, Rivne, Korosten’, Obukhiv, and Pereyaslav. Delivered 600 kg of food each to Korosten’ and Pereyaslav.
Vitaliy Z (Kharkiv): provided special clothing to more than 30 employees of the housing and communal services in Kharkiv, who work, clean, repair, and maintain order in difficult and dangerous conditions. Supporting such people means supporting the functioning of the city. Also provided similar uniforms to 40 workers in the village of Shabelkivka (Kramatorsk District, Donetsk Region). Delivered 350 humanitarian kits to Kostyantynivka, including food, clothes, medicine, bread, and animal feed. Evacuated an elderly woman with her belongings and animals from the village of Derylove in the Lyman community. This is the next village over from Shandryholove, where there is already active fighting. Distributed more than 400 loaves of bread in Bairak and Shchurivka – remote villages of the unoccupied Balakliya District. Distributed 1.5 tons of animal feed in various locations near the frontline to local residents who agreed to feed the many abandoned dogs and cats in these areas.
Oksana K (Lutsk): delivered 1,200-1,400 kg of food, hygiene products, clothes, toys, bedding, and diapers for teenagers with disabilities for aid to orphanages in the city of Znam’yanka and Oleksandriia (both in Kirovohrad Region). Handed out aid at the distribution point in Lutsk: 12 visitors received a total of 82 kg of clothing, bedding, and adult diapers, plus walkers.
Oleksandr Z (Lutsk): provided therapeutic interventions and aid to internally displaced (IDP) children and adults, children with disabilities, children from large families and military families, orphans, and military veterans – held 3 art therapy sessions for a total of 106 veterans, IDPs, and children. Took 57 children with disabilities, veterans and IDPs to a museum. Visited the theater with 32 IDP families. Distributed bread and other food to 380 people living in IDP assistance centers, with special attention paid to 70 orphaned students from the Sumy and Kherson regions. Provided glasses for 34 adults and children. Conducted 79 medical procedures to improve the health of 20 IDP children with disabilities from the Kherson Region. Helped 20 children with prophylactic health procedures, physiotherapy, hydrotherapy, and gym classes. Through partners, assisted in the manufacture of prostheses and rehabilitation for 6 people.
Kseniia’s Team – Livyy bereh (Left Bank)
Roof completed for 1 home in Lezhyne, Zaporizhzhia Region.
Karina’s Team – My ryatuyemo Ukrayinu (We Save Ukraine)
100 people in the shelter.
Delivered 250 packages of aid to Dobropillya, Vodyans’ke, Svitle, Bilyts’ke.
Tetiana’s Team – Dopomoha poruch (Help Is Near)
Distributed 120 aid packages in Krutoyarivka, Dnipropetrovsk Region.
Timur’s Team – Komanda Teymura Alyeva (Timur Alyev’s Team)
Delivered aid packages to 423 families in Kharkiv.
For Easter distributed 500 paski (traditional Easter cakes).
Pavel and Olena’s Teams – Dotyk sertsya (Touch of Heart) & Svitanok mriy (Dawn of Dreams)
225 packages delivered to Myrne and Luch villages in the Mykolaiv Region.
Held events for children in Mykolaiv.
Pomahaem Foundation (We Help Foundation)
24 tons of water delivered to Nikopol.
Helped two shelters in Dnipro that lost windows after April 17 attacks.
Marina’s Team – Daruy dobrо Ukrayina (Give Good Ukraine)
150 packages distributed in Pyatikhatki community.
Dina’s Team — Vilʹni lyudy, vilʹna krayina (Free People, Free Country)
Distributed 355 packages in Kremenchuk, Poltava, and Kanev.
Served 1,750 meals in Kharkiv soup kitchen.
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, kids had Easter celebration, culinary and art classes.
Alena’s Team – Diva (Virgo)
Delivered 350 packages of hygiene products and 1,460 yogurts, donated by dairy factory, to internally displaced people in the Mykolaiv Region.
Distributed 1,035 loaves of bread in Odesa.
Liza and Katya supported 10 wounded people in Odesa hospitals.
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