🧵 Thread: Between Setbacks and Resilience — Our Journey to Ukraine 🧡🇺🇦 1/ Our latest humanitarian mission to Ukraine was supposed to be straightforward. Load medical supplies, drive east, deliver, return. Instead, it became a week that tested everything — planning, patience, resilience — and reminded us exactly why we keep doing this work. @AprilHuggett @vanguardua

💔🇺🇦 "Save Oleshky" banner at the Hungary-Ukraine match A reminder to the world that in the occupied city in the Kherson region, more than 2 thousand people are on the verge of starvation.

I was driving today when I started to break down. At first, I didn’t even understand why. Then I looked over and realized it was the sound of children. A park full of children laughing, play, it was the sound of life. At the front line, you don’t hear that. Even when children are still there, you don’t hear parks filled with laughter. You don’t hear that carefree sound of children simply being children. I had to pull down a side street and stop the car because I couldn’t hold myself together. And immediately I thought about Oleshky. Oleshky has been under russian occupation since February 24, 2022. The first day of the full scale invasion. Today, civilians are trapped there without a safe organized evacuation route. Food deliveries stopped months ago. People are reportedly cooking grass and whatever plants they can find just to eat. There is almost no medicine. Roads are mined. Drones are constantly overhead. An estimated 200 Children are still there. And winter is coming. My partner asked me today about having a baby. Besides the obvious that I’m 38, in the military, and have absolutely no intention of leaving #Ukraine, I didn’t really know how to answer him. Because every day I watch Ukrainian parents bury their children. I watch Ukrainian children describe seeing their parents killed. I see videos of children going to bed asking their parents to take them to the basement when the ballistic missiles are coming. I remember the little boy asking his mother why the russians want to kill him. It isn’t fair. Children should not understand ballistic missiles. They should not know the sound of drones or which room in their home has the safest walls. They should not know hunger, occupation, mines or evacuation routes. They should know the sound I heard today. Other children laughing. #Oleshky needs food. It needs medicine. Its civilians need a safe way out. The children still trapped there deserve the same thing every child deserves: the chance to grow up. Today I had to pull my car over because hearing children laugh broke something in me. Maybe because after this many years of war, I had almost forgotten what childhood is supposed to sound like.

Direct strike on a hospital. Savages.

🔽 Recently, we lost one of our own: Andries (@justadutchguy). He was on his way to Kyiv when he died suddenly. He was a FORCE - a true #NAFOfella and then some. Only 45 years old. His life was all about Ukraine. Please donate in his honour. Please RT♥️ gofundme.com/f/ambulance-in-…

We moeten Oekraïne helpen deze signaal versterkers te vernietigen

I still can’t believe this. 2026. The largest country in Europe is being destroyed — and the world just watches. 💔📽 Bilytske, Donetsk region — yet another town reduced to ruins.

💔 Kyiv. The horror we live through continues. At least 4 people have been killed in the latest russian attack. If this were London or Paris, the world would be screaming. But Ukrainians are killed every day, and the world stays silent.

🤬 Russia attacked Zaporizhzhia: a medical center and ambulances were damaged A garage cooperative, transport and non-residential buildings were damaged in the city, and windows were broken in a residential building.

Huge thank u! Don't panic, It will remain open for a while yet. The hard launch hasn't occured yet & some have asked for it to remain open. Mind & adjust the % the platform wants from u b4 u confirm your donation. Ignore the goalposts - I need to explain NAFO 2 Dutch's family 😂

Keep up the good work guy just €660 to go 🫡

RT @Official_NAFO: In memory of Dutch, Lotta is raising funds for an ambulance to be sent to Ukraine. Please help us honour a fallen fella…

Nearly 10k raised in 23 hours ❤️ Dutch would be so grateful for all the love that everyone has shown. He was so dedicated to making a difference and there is no better way to honour his memory than to making such a big impact with this. You are all incredible ❤️

RT @JoaJuan2: ❗️ Please let's honor the fallen Fella! One of the best and most dedicated!🙏🕯️🇳🇱 You may not have much... but you can still…

Kättä taskuun ja joukkorahoittamaan ambulanssi (tai ehkä pari) Ukrainaan Andriesin muiston kunniaksi. Aivan uskomattoman mukava mies, joka ehti ilahduttaa ja auttaa lukemattomia ihmisiä ennen liian varhaista lähtöään.

NATO is running away instead of fighting back. Poland is urgently evacuating two border crossings with Ukraine—at Zosin and Dorohusk. According to Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, this decision was made due to Russian drone attacks.

🇵🇱 Donald Tusk ordered two Polish border crossings evacuated after a Russian attack in western Ukraine near the frontier. The points were in Hrubieszów (Zosin crossing) and Dorohusk. Poland put fighters on full alert and scrambled jets. It is the sixth scramble in 10 days over Russian attacks on Ukraine.

BREAKING | 🇵🇱🇷🇺🇺🇦‼️‼️ Poland has ordered the evacuation of two locations near the Ukrainian border following a Russian strike in western Ukraine, as Warsaw takes additional precautions against the risk of the war spilling across NATO territory. The evacuation covers areas near the Zosin border crossing in Hrubieszów County and Dorohusk. Poland also placed its military aviation on full readiness and scrambled fighter aircraft in response to the Russian attack. This marks the sixth time in just 10 days that Polish military aircraft have been activated because of Russian strikes against Ukraine. The frequency of these alerts is becoming increasingly significant. Poland is no longer treating Russian strikes close to its frontier as isolated episodes, with repeated fighter deployments and now precautionary evacuations showing how directly the continuing attacks in western Ukraine are affecting security measures on the Polish side of the border. See the latest updates with us: @visionergeo

This is russkiy mir (Russian world). Russia is a death cult, they will murder millions without blinking. This whole war is basically a very long series of warcrimes. Raping children and women, torture, executions. Quite telling when people support Russia!

Circa 49.000 bambini provenienti dai territori ucraini temporaneamente occupati sono stati arruolati nell'"Esercito Giovanile" russo, di cui 36.000 in Crimea. Il numero di partecipanti al "Movimento dei Primi", il programma attraverso il quale vengono anche russificati e militarizzati i minori ucraini, è passato da 12.000 nel 2023 a 185.000 oggi. Continuate pure ad applaudire chi parla di compromessi territoriali con la Russia, anziché pretendere il rispetto del diritto internazionale. Poi però ricordatevi che una volta stabilito quel principio, quello vale per tutti. Se un giorno doveste trovare la vostra casa occupata con i vostri figli dentro, non pretendete che qualcuno si senta obbligato a salvarli. Quel qualcuno potrebbe anche decidere che quei figli siano un prezzo adeguato per ottenere la loro “pace”, così come ora voi pensate di costruire vostra sacrificando terre e figli che non vi appartengono.