July 12

160 total evacuations this week

37,479 evacuations to date

Living in Occupied Kherson

Ukraine TrustChain volunteers have been able to provide some help into occupied territories; one of these is Kherson, which has been occupied for the past 4 months. The people of Kherson are waiting to be liberated, surviving in tough conditions. One of our teams shared information coming from their connection in Kherson:

Within city limits there used to be more than 100 supermarkets, where people could buy what they needed, and what’s more important pay for it in cash or on credit. During the war they ceased to exist either due to looting, or mandatory closing. Two weeks ago, three new markets opened in the buildings taken over from previous owners, but prices are up 3-4 times… Hundreds of pharmacies closed…, currently medicine is being sold from car trunks with air temperature reaching 40 centigrade (104 F) at prices 3-4 times higher than before the war. Medicine is not being stored at the right temperature, especially those that need to be refrigerated. We are giving away lots of medicine, especially those for treating high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes and thyroid problems.

Other signs of deterioration reported by our fearless volunteers in Kherson include:

Ukraine Team Milestones

Karina’s team evacuated 61 people from Bakhmut and vicinities.
Kseniia’s team continued assisting people in villages around Kyiv with roof repairs. Ukraine TrustChain also helped her team deliver appliances to Borodyanka hospital. She also provided air conditioners to a military hospital and delivered a truck of aid to Kharkiv where other trusted teams distributed this aid in hard-to-access areas near the frontline.

Working with Olga’s group, Ukraine TrustChain helped deliver ultrasound equipment to a hospital in Chernihiv.

Due to fighting, the Lysychansk route is closed for aid shipments. Pavel and his team have come together to replan routes for aid deliveries to hot zones and restore from the restless weeks of evacuations. In the two days prior to these meetings Pavel’s team evacuated 78 people from Nikolayev and central Ukraine last week.

Dina purchased a cargo van for aid deliveries that UTC funded through your generous donations. She is supporting displaced people living in Dnirpo, and on July 9th, held an event for children. Dina’s charity organization has opened distribution centers in Kanev, Merefa, Kremenchuk, Krasnokutsk, and Poltava. Dina’s team is also continuing to support elderly and civilians in Kharkiv who are still living in a basement of a theater.

Working with multiple volunteer teams, we have launched initiatives to pull in 80 tons of aid from Western Ukraine and Poland that will be en route in the coming weeks. Once these routes are established $1500-2500 would be enough to deliver 20 tons of aid that can be shared within Ukraine TrustChain volunteer networks.

UTC formed a closer partnership with Krok z Nadiyeyu foundation, run by Inna;; her team distributes 4,000-5,000 large, multi-week packages of aid per week in more than 30 locations in 7 regions of Ukraine.
Andriy Pinchuk has accomplished a major logistical feat consolidating multiple smaller warehouses into a single modernized facility that would allow his team to increase the amount of aid they are able to receive and distribute. In parallel, he continued to host 82 people in the shelter and organize evacuation further west for the elderly. Since the start of the war Andriy Pinchuk organized safe passage to the West for 1,966 people and evacuated more than 8,400 people from the hot zones.
Natasha’s team is shipping aid along a new route to Zaporizhzhya which is experiencing an intensification of shelling.
After a missile strike in Odesa, our team was able to enter and identify people that need help. UTC-funded volunteers, in coordination with other aid groups, are planning a larger push of aid to Serhiivka - the site of the latest terrorist attack in the Odesa region.

Teams working with Oleksandr evacuated 20 people from the Donetsk region.

Oleksandr helped coordinate UTC support for the relocation of a field clinic to Uzhgorod, which has already started receiving hundreds of patients.
The Mykolayiv team continued to deliver drinking water, delivering more than 24 tons of water last week. UTC is funding vehicle repairs and is exploring other options for increasing support for this critical project.
Our teams continue to push help to Kherson and other occupied territories in the southern regions of Ukraine.

US Team Milestones

Following a month of Russian airstrikes and destruction from February through March, 27 out of 34 schools in Chernihiv now stand damaged or in ruins. In cooperation with Ukrainian Prizm in Chernihiv, Ukraine TrustChain is raising funds for five schools selected for repairs. These five schools suffered moderate damage that can be repaired before the start of the school year and are spread out geographically throughout Chernihiv. Following an initial transfer of funds, repairs on school #35 have started.
Our US team had the incredible opportunity to connect with several team members of Pavel and Andriy over Zoom this week.

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