Since our weekend truck driver Olesya Vitushko got a little sick, we went on Monday. In the morning, we looked at the thermometer, but it was already too late to do anything about it, even though it was -17°C, everything was loaded, and the cheese pastries were ready. We had to go…
While political passions are raging, unfortunately, the front is slowly advancing in our direction. One position after another, village by village, the enemy is bombing with artillery, leveling the ground, and sending waves of suicide assault troops… and now they’re evacuating the settlements where the Nova Poshta was still working just a month ago.
There are many wounded. Evacuations are complicated and long because of drones… And the freezing temperatures.
But thanks to friends, we managed to gather and buy everything on the lists. We took some things on credit, but we delivered them.
Thanks to Anna Filippova for the sterile gowns, Maryna Komar for bandages, absorbent wipes (a box), surgical covers (a box), HARTMANN GROUP for the discount on cohesive bandages, Svitlana Osipova for the constant hydrogen peroxide, Ivanka Solovka for glucose, from the latest purchases also saline solutions (regular and hypertonic), venflons 16G, venflon stickers, small and abdominal bandages from the latest batch…
The tourniquets are still on their way, but Tetiana Kharlan lent from her supplies, and scissors too—thanks, volunteer to volunteer, right?)
The non-sterile gloves were running low, I thought they’d last until summer, but now we’re down to the last box… Irina Kaptur, your XL, Maria Chupinina, your M, thank you, girls!
Phew, I think that’s everything.
And the endomotor for the ornithologists, we bought it in the USA in collaboration with tireless Mariya Petukhova… No, not all of America has stopped helping, Masha continues))
We drank coffee to the brim. We chatted with medics at the stabilization point, fewer wounded during the day, so we had a moment. We met a wonderful fellow, an artilleryman from a great brigade, thanks to Natalia Khimich for giving such a pleasant assignment!
We exchanged disposable caps for occlusion devices—yes, that happens too))
We saw the sun, admired beautifully frosted thistles and trees by the roadside, and on the way back, we met a road-salting vehicle, and I was surprised why it was salting… until five minutes later, it started snowing!
Tomorrow will be a new day and new lists. Because ending the war is much harder than starting it, especially when we didn’t start it…
To be continued.
With support Tatyana Harlan | Volunteer