Aid delivery to Ukrainian paramilitary at frontline near Donetsk

Date: March 27, 2015

Location: Donetsk oblast, Ukraine

Aid delivery to Ukrainian paramilitary at frontline near Donetsk.

We have heard and read a lot about volunteers providing food, medical supplies, and other essentials for the Ukrainian soldiers at the front. At the same time the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and government officials have claimed that the government is doing its job in supplying the soldiers with everything they need.

EMPR has decided to see for ourselves how things stand in regard to how well the soldiers in the battle zone in eastern Ukraine are being taken care of. In our search for the truth and to bring our readers a firsthand account our correspondent spent two days with a volunteer group in the Donetsk oblast. We want to share with our readers the remarkable, unique system the volunteers have worked out to provide aid to the patriots of Ukraine who with their strength of spirit, desire for justice and often with their own lives are defending our land from the Russian invaders.

Meet the charitable organization “Mother’s Watch” in Kyiv. Here volunteers collect aid for the Ukrainian soldiers. Here protective camouflage nets are made, bread and cakes and meat pies are baked, stuffed dumplings and meat balls are cooked, and soup and borshch ingredients are dehydrated. This is where our journey accompanying the volunteers from the “Association of Ukrainian Veterans of Afghanistan” begins. The group of veterans delivers the goods to the soldiers at the front.

We leave Kyiv at night and by morning we arrive in Donetsk oblast. Our first stop is a small village where 11 divisions of a mechanized infantry battalion are based. Here we leave half of the goods. The battalion has been here for three months already. They are tired. And waiting for their rotation to end. Next we’re off to the see the “Right Sector.”

Credits to: EMPR

Tags: Conflict zone donetsk oblast humanitarian aid russia ukraine war ukrainian army