Today, together with Antonina Kozurak, we are finishing preparations for the trip to Donetsk region with a military aid mission.
Tonia and three other volunteers are going to Pokrovsk to deliver a Nissan Navara to Yuriy Sydora, a soldier from our community who serves in the 33rd Separate Mechanized Brigade. Yuriy is currently located with his comrades in the Avdiivka sector.
While our Nissan will go on a car carrier, the minibus itself is now being loaded with tasty and useful gifts for our fellow local Heroes and their colleagues in arms who are serving in the 33rd Separate Mechanized Brigade, the 3rd Separate Assault Brigade, the 72nd Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Black Cossacks, and the 24th Separate Mechanized Brigade named after King Danylo.
This photo is just a drop in the ocean of everything that we are going to send to our dear soldiers! Now we are on our way to pick up the rest of the goods from different locations and load them into a minibus.
According to the old Christian style used by some churches in Ukraine, Easter this year falls on May 5. That's why we ordered several ceremonial Easter breads - paska - for each set of goodies. Also boxes of various pastries, sweets, loads of meat products from a local producer - sausages, smoked meat and lard (over 60 kg in total), canned meat, hundreds of portions of ready-to-eat dishes packed in individual pouches and sterilized in an autoclave (stuffed cabbage rolls "holubtsi", goulash) and dried ingredients for instant borsch. Also 50 pcs of 10-liter water canisters, basic medicines, hygiene products, underwear, etc.
Since this Sunday is Palm Sunday in the old style, we will add branches of willow with buds, which is a symbol of this holiday in Ukraine. Traditionally, it is blessed in churches at a special mass, and then people bring it into their homes to protect families from evil for the whole year, until the next Easter holidays.
May these ritual willow branches become a symbol of our love and prayers and be a protective talisman for the soldiers of Ukraine against the fierce enemy in this difficult time!
Tonia, her husband and the guys are leaving tomorrow afternoon for a long drive of 1,300 kilometers one way. Now we are paying for the goods and collecting funds for fuel and emergency reserve in case of the minibus failure. Diesel fuel alone will cost about 500 USD.
And as always, I would like to express deep gratitude to my friends and connections on #LinkedIn, who with their contributions help us raise operational budget for the great things like this!
We are confident that another trip to the front line will be successful
We wish our defenders safety and watchful guardian angels over their shoulders!
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