Earlier this week, we reached a significant milestone by sending a total of $10,000,000 to Ukraine since the start of the full-scale invasion. These resources helped evacuate 62,000 people, deliver 14,000 tons of aid worth 100s of millions of dollars and provided at least a week's worth of help to 5.3MM people.

Our teams operating in Kherson and right-bank villages along Dnipro have independently reported rising risks. But people still live there, including children in some areas, and the teams we support insist on supporting them at all costs.

In our chats with Ukrainian teams we feel the slow escalation of the war and the stress and the tension that is gradually building up all across the frontline.

New Russian offensive north of Kharkiv is being conducted with absolute predatory ruthlessness, making no distinction between military units and civilians. This is causing a surge in evacuations and refugee flows, while increasing risks for our volunteer teams.

The offensive in the north is accompanied by intensifying bombings of Kharkiv. Though Congress has approved aid to Ukraine, this aid has not yet reached the Ukrainian military.

Last week we marked 800 days from the start of the full-scale invasion.

Although the US aid to Ukraine was recently approved it will take some time for it to get to Ukraine and have an actual impact on the situation on the ground.

We are proud that the US Congress and Senate passed the Ukraine aid and were happy to get countless misplaced thank you from our volunteers.

It is heartrending to witness the daily destruction of Ukraine. Ukrainian volunteers and our entire community in the West are doing what we can to help ease the suffering caused by Russia’s vicious attacks.

This was another ordinary week full of danger and hard work for teams we support. Every town along the frontline continues to suffer from daily rocket and artillery attacks.

We are excited to announce that an anonymous Chicago foundation is once again sponsoring a match drive! Please share this newsletter with your network.

This was an incredibly difficult week for Ukraine. Putin and his armies unleashed a new record streak of rocket attacks and bombardments in cities such as Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odesa, Kryvyi Rih, and many others as well as bombed another major dam on the Dnipro River.

From the first weeks of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Ukrainian volunteer teams have supported internally displaced populations all across Ukraine.

We are proud that last week we officially closed our largest project to date. Ukraine TrustChain teams provided firewood to 74 remote and frontline villages of Kherson, Mykolaiv, Kharkiv and Donbas regions.

It’s been two years since the founding of Ukraine TrustChain. Two years ago we sent our first dollar to Ukrainian volunteers a few days before forming an official charity. The people we met in that fateful week are still volunteering.

Last weekend our US volunteers joined thousands of other Ukrainians and friends of Ukraine at the numerous rallies across the world marking the two-year anniversary of the full-scale invasion. We also joined forces to demand that congress finally vote (at least!) on bill H.R. 815 that could unlock the aid to Ukraine – so vital in holding back Russia’s invasion.

This week marks a tragic milestone - 2 years since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Each week our volunteers risk their lives evacuating civilians from the occupied and close to the front line territories, deliver food, water, firewood, and other essentials to the remote villages and small towns where help needed most.

This week marks 100 newsletters that our team has written. In 100 weeks, we have reported on the very mundane yet extraordinary feats that continue to awe us even as we have become accustomed to the stories and this everyday heroism.

The need for firewood is great. There is no water, no gas, as the gas pipes are completely perforated by shrapnel, and the only heat comes from stove heating. Multiple NGOs had collected lists of people who particularly needed help, but none of them managed to come through. People only received help from us.