Russia continues to spread the lie that its army is not fighting against civilians. We can all see that it is the army of the aggressor country that is now shooting up residential areas of Ukrainian cities, destroying schools, kindergartens and hospitals across the country.
Entire regions have been pushed to the brink of survival: dozens of civilians and children have been killed and wounded. Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians are suffering not only from shelling, but also from lack of access to food, water, basic necessities, medical care and medicines.
Today, many people, companies and organisations have united across Europe to help Ukraine through fundraising and collecting food and medicine. With the country’s infrastructure in ruins, SCM businesses are taking over all humanitarian deliveries from Europe to Ukrainian cities. The Rinat Akhmetov Foundation and Humanitarian Headquarters have the necessary, in many ways unique, experience.
The first deliveries will come from Poland, the Netherlands, Germany, Romania and Italy. The list of countries is constantly expanding. Metinvest and DTEK will purchase food products in Europe for affected Ukrainians. We have set up a hub in Poland to consolidate aid and send it to Ukraine. We will ship it by containers and railcars on the Ukrainian railway. We will also organise special trains to receive humanitarian aid in our country. We will provide all humanitarian aid that we collect to the city humanitarian headquarters deployed in all regions of Ukraine.
We are working with various organisations and partner companies both in Ukraine and abroad. Together, we are shipping large consignments of medicines, food (particularly for children), clothing, women’s and children’s hygiene products, and electrical appliances for Ukrainians. This includes employees of our enterprises, who must take refuge in bomb shelters each day during Russian air attacks.
This initiative is open for partnership. Today, we are all Ukrainians. Together, we will endure! We appeal to everyone: if you know of any companies, enterprises and organisations in Ukraine and abroad that are ready to provide humanitarian aid in large quantities and would like to join us, please give us their contact information or tell us about them.
Point of contact:
Yegor Ponomarenko
+38 (067) 5100 167
Egor.Ponomarenko@metinvestholding.com
Please note that this initiative aims to provide large-scale humanitarian aid and cannot accommodate individual one-off donations. We can only accept shipments in the form of cargo packed on 120x80cm euro-pallets or in containers delivered to a terminal.