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Donate to help raise $6,000 to meet their purchase deadline. Meet the Volunteers from the Dacha (Cottage) This recruitment / training video for new “Volunteers from the Cottage” features Ana and other members of their group talking about how to prepare dry rations for the soldiers at the front, a number of whom who Ana went to military college with. What started as a cottage industry- the dehydration of and packaging into meals in the dachas (cottages) of volunteer’s families…

See also the news article at this link: https://time.com/person-of-the-year-2022-volodymyr-zelensky/

This winter will be life-threatening for millions of people in Ukraine… read more

THE OTHER UKRAINIAN ARMY: Imperiled by Russian invaders, private citizens are stepping forward to do what Ukraine’s government cannot. August 10, 2022, article in The Altantic by Anne Applebaum. Photographs by Jedrzej Nowicki …Across the city, students, accountants, hairdressers, and every other conceivable profession have joined what can only be described as an unprecedented social movement. They call themselves volonteri, and their organizations, their crowdfunding campaigns, and their activism help explain why the Ukrainian army has fought so hard and so well,…

10% of the world’s wheat comes from Ukraine – will war change that? Collectively, Russia and Ukraine are responsible for more than a quarter of global wheat exports and for around 80% of the world’s supply of sunflower oil. Russia — along with ally, Belarus — is also a huge source of fertiliser, accounting for around 15% globally. Read More/Podcast

From Facebook: Кристина Джолос March 16th Yesterday we left Mariupol under the shelling at our own risk, stayed the night in the field, in the gray zone, did not make it to the curfew, there was frost outside, thank God we are alive. They are alive to scream that everyone who stayed in Mariupol needs help. This is not a city of hero, this is a city of fear, death and horror. !!!!!! We did not have a humanitarian convoy,…

Chef José Andrés and his team are feeding Ukrainians on the front lines of the war