We made a trip to Donbas: 750 kilometers, 18 hours on the road.
We delivered the following items:
100 units of rapid hemostatic dressings (35g each)
1 box of medical gowns
2 boxes of medicine
3 packs of chemical warming insoles
2 Lenovo i5 laptops (8GB RAM, 250GB SSD)
4 winter tires (175/65 R14)
1 box of underwear for the hospital
50 pillows for the hospital
Several boxes of blankets
1 box of hygiene products
15 boxes of food
The medical supplies were handed over to the medical battalion of the 93rd OMBR “Kholodnyi Yar.” Hemostatic supplies, medical gowns, medications, and inhalers, as well as warm insoles, were provided by the “Osonnia Ukrainy” Charitable Foundation. Another box of medications was collected by Vitalii Nessen and Ivan Musiienko. Pillows and underwear were donated by the Shevchenko Library/Larysa Denysiuk, laptops by our Polish friends, and food and hygiene products by the “Palianytsia” Aid & Logistics Center.
We also traveled to de-occupied territories to deliver a laptop and food to our troops and brought back a Starlink device damaged by shrapnel for repairs.
Additionally, we delivered food from the “Palianytsia” Aid & Logistics Center to the volunteer café “Shliakh Voїniv” (“Warriors’ Path”), where soldiers heading to or from Donbas are fed free of charge.
We ventured quite deep into a de-occupied area. I was there about two years ago, right after the de-occupation. Life is slowly returning. In the village of Studenok, electricity has been restored. Still, it’s a surreal contrast: nearly every house is destroyed, yet there’s a brand-new Nova Poshta parcel locker and a notice on a pole advertising available fiber-optic internet. Some residents have returned, not many, but they are gathering firewood and gradually restoring basic living conditions.
The surrounding forest has almost entirely burned. It’s hard to say how many decades it will take for nature to recover. The horror is compounded by countless mines. Demining operations have been ongoing for two years now, and it remains an extensive, active effort.
