July 6
Our Ukraine teams evacuated 363 people this week; to date, volunteers have saved 37,319 lives.
Pavel’s Deliveries
Last week, Pavel had to go to the Luhansk region again shortly before the key inroads into the area were occupied. Earlier, when his team brought food and humanitarian aid to a devastated village, the residents asked them to bring aid to another village which was in even worse shape. To get to the other village, the volunteers drove through the wooded road, which was especially dangerous, due to ambushes and potential sniper fire. This time the convoy survived, and successfully brought food and medicine to the people who needed it desperately.
When the aid was distributed, there were still 200 people gathered around a bombed store. Pavel’s team ran out of aid, but people kept chasing the vans asking for more help. This village has not received bread deliveries in more than three months.
Pavel found bakeries willing to bake bread for Donbas villages and as soon as the bread was ready Pavel headed back to deliver. This was the last trip into that region before the fall of Lysychansk. Pavel managed to evacuate one last bus of people, 18 persons total.
Unfortunately for many traumatized families there, evacuations seem too dangerous and they prefer to stay in their basements. We can only applaud the heroism of Pavel’s drivers who, against all odds, continue to risk their lives daily to take these life-sustaining and -saving missions.
Ukraine Team Milestones
One of the teams that we are connected to through Oleksandr Davydiuk is actively working to maintain the supply of drinking water to the inhabitants of the city of Mykolaiv. The supply of drinking water has been disrupted by the war. Currently the most efficient way to deliver water is to extract it from wells nearby and drive them into the city. Vladislav Kucheriavenko has established 10 distribution points and delivers 24 cubic meters of water weekly driving hundreds of miles. Your donations to Ukraine Trustchain help fund the fuel costs for water transportation. We are exploring other ways we can help reestablish water supply.
Kseniia’s team has helped complete the roof reconstruction for the school in the village of Olizarivka and will be continuing to work on the school next week.
Meanwhile Kseniia took the trip to Kharkiv and Sumy preparing to expand her teams help to these regions
Karina’s team helped evacuate 91 people, although in the coming week the evacuation by her team will be on hold given the recent disruption of existing routes due to the ongoing battles with the invaders.
Despite the continued slowdown in evacuations from the south and the east, Pavel’s team evacuated 170 people including 74 children. 18 of the people were evacuated from the inferno of the Donbas buffer zones. We would like to continue to stress that the evacuation missions have become extremely dangerous in the past weeks. Russian forces continue to target humanitarian convoys, as was evidenced by the incident this week where Pavel’s group was targeted with mortar fire.
Andriy Pinchuk’s shelter continues to provide dwelling for 55 people. Since the start of the war his shelter housed more than 2,900 people in its walls.
Since June 24th, Andriy Pinchuk has delivered 9 vans of humanitarian aid to Bakhmut.
The team of Alena Prizhebolskaja promptly responded to the horrific attack in the Odessa suburb of Serhiivka that killed 20 and wounded 38 people. Her team arrived and distributed aid to the families whose households have been affected by this attack.
Pavlo V. — another team that we support through Oleksandr Davydiuk, pushed humanitarian aid to Kramatorsk evacuating 2 people from there on the way back from an aid delivery. They also continue to support homeless shelters in Dnipro, delivering bread to people living in extreme and unrelentingly harsh living conditions.
Ukraine TrustChain has officially launched the partnership initiative to support the rebuilding of schools in Chernihiv. We are collecting additional information about the needs of Chernihiv schools and will be updating our community about this project over the coming weeks.
Ukraine TrustChain has helped with transportation cost for the new vehicle for one of Oleksandr Davydiuk’s teams. This team is based in Kyiv and distributes more than 20 tons of aid weekly to the refugees and people in need.
US Milestones
Ukraine TrustChain helped provide a significant supply of anti-rejection medicine for organ transplant recipients in Kharkiv.
Pavel, his heroic team, and Ukraine TrustChain were again featured in BBC’s Ukrainecast: Russia Seizes Key City.
Ukraine TrustChain was mentioned in an NPR story: NPR’s All Things Considered at the JetLAG Festival.
We want to thank Akim Aliu’s Time to Dream Foundation for their generous donation to Ukraine TrustChain.
Ukraine TrustChain fundraising in the memory of Jaroslav has raised more than $4,500.
Thank you to Sirius Community, a nonprofit educational center and spiritual community committed to sustainable living, for their support of and donation to Ukraine TrustChain.
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