July 20
409 total evacuations this week
37,788 evacuations to date
*Two weeks ago we had an error in the number of evacuations: our number of evacuations was reported as 363; instead it should have been 263.
Help Where It’s Needed
If you look back at these reports from past weeks, you could see a pattern where our teams happen to be near all sites of major fighting and Russia’s terrorist attacks. The volunteer teams we support are not only dispersed throughout Ukraine, but they also make a focused, unrelenting effort to seek out areas of the greatest need.
Pavel’s Team and Vinnytsia
On July 14th, Russian aggressors launched four missiles on Vinnytsia into a street of buildings and people. The strikes killed 23 people and injured over 100. One of Pavel’s bases is in Vinnytsia, and members of his team experienced the panic and the aftermath of these attacks firsthand. Ihor, one of Pavel’s heroic drivers, sent us a video with mixed Ukrainian and Russian languages in the moments after describing what he saw.
Within days following the attack, Pavel arranged to move his team’s base to another city. To us this was more proof of how seriously Pavel takes the security of his team, while still embarking on extremely risky life-saving missions to evacuate civilians or push aid to the occupied territories.
Andriy’s Team and Chasiv Yar
Andriy’s team completed three trips last week to the northern parts of the Kharkiv region and to Nopokrovsk and Chasiv Yar in Donetsk region close to the hottest zones of fighting. Chasiv Yar experienced one of the deadliest missile attacks the weekend earlier killing at least 48 people. Andriy’s team distributed humanitarian aid to 145 families, including to families with children, to families with children with disabilities, and to pregnant women. In total, they distributed 359 packages weighing 3 tons.
Alena’s Team and Odesa
Our Odesa team continued to deliver more aid to Serhiivka residents who, on July 1st, suffered a massive terrorist attack by Russia. Although there was a surge of support early on, many items that were brought in earlier did not address the immediate needs of the victims of this attack.
Ukraine Team Milestones
Evacuations that had slowed down in the last two weeks have picked up again with 409 evacuations this week, as the bombardment of Kharkiv and other regions intensified.
Karina’s team evacuated 110 people from the Eastern regions around the city of Bakhmut.
Pavel’s team evacuated 263 people from Kharkiv, Mykolayiv, Vinnytsia and Eastern territories. There is heavy shooting in Kharkiv and Mykolaiv; people are asking to be evacuated. Pavel’s team is picking up people who are leaving Kherson through Zaporizhzhia and driving them to safety.
Evacuations increased as attacks intensify.
Dina’s group provided help to more than 2,200 families last week alone spanning 12 cities across Central and Eastern Ukraine.
Aid distribution in Poltava
Inna Kampen’s group distributed aid to 3,800 families through 26 distribution centers in four Eastern and Central regions in Ukraine. The additional funding from Ukraine TrustChain allowed her to pull in an additional 37 tons of aid, consisting of durable food items and 2 tons of hygiene products.
Meanwhile, Andriy’s shelter continued to host 90 people in the Dnipro suburbs.
We work with partners all over the world; this week, Ukraine TrustChain’s partnership with Be a Hero in Poland allowed us to deliver 14,500 boxes of rice meals to Kharkiv. Timur’s team is distributing these to undersupplied areas.
Timur delivering aid to villages on the outskirts of Kharkiv. Other organizations do not enter these danger zones, but people here live under constant shelling.
Despite incredible difficulties, our teams were able to help 76 families in occupied Kherson, and pushed aid into the Kakhovka region also suffering under the occupation.
Natalia’s team shipped three trucks of aid to Avdiyivka and nearby locations in Eastern Ukraine. Those areas are extremely dangerous and require coordination with the army to make a successful delivery.
The team of Andriy and Tetyana Pasenko from Kryviy Rih delivered aid to the villages in the Kherson region. As the battle to liberate Kherson intensifies, most of the people remaining in these villages are senior citizens refusing to evacuate who get very little external help other than the aid brought in by the volunteers.
Delivering aid to Kherson
Kseniia’s team continued her work on roof repairs, while her extended team proceeded with ramping up operations in Kharkiv redirecting the funds there where the need in humanitarian aid is more dire.
We continue to support the transportation cost of drinking water delivery in the Mykolayiv region where Russian invasion disrupted water supply. 24 metric cubes (24 tons) were delivered and distributed last week.
Ukraine TrustChain has increased funding for car repairs last week as a number of vehicles required urgent repairs in multiple teams.
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