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LATEST HUMANITARIAN CONVOY SETS OFF FROM TEDDINGTON TO UKRAINE

Mighty Convoy team set off for Ukraine in the early hours from Teddington today (thurs)
The convoy of 4×4’s will drive to Poland and then cross the border into Lviv to hand over the vehicles and the aid
Aid workers Angie and Uliana with Simon and Ukrainian flag last month

The latest humanitarian next convoy set off today from Cambridge Road, Teddington with five 4×4’s vehicles and a fully refrigerated lorry donated by an unnamed supermarket chain after raising £35.000 to fund the purchases of the former utility vehicles.

The convoy will carry surgical gowns and masks, aprons, dressings, pillow cases, sheets, duvet sets, haemorrhage packs as well as other medical instruments for serious orthopaedic injuries.

The new vehicles will be better equipped to negotiate the challenging terrain as winter approaches and reach the frontline faster with paramedics on board. Ambulances also risk being attacked by the Russian forces.

Organiser Simon Brake said: “Last time we handed over the ambulances to the 60th Brigade but they said with winter coming it would be more difficult to get to the frontline because of the terrible terrain and the 4×4’s would be much better.”

Last month two Ukrainian women project manager  Uliana Kovalyshyn, 33, and Dr Angie Grutsuyk, 27, were based in Teddington as part of a programme of raising awareness of the desperate need for support for injured civilians and soldiers.

The mission is led by the not-for-profit group Mighty Convoy which has so far raised enough money to send 24 ambulances and one 4×4 vehicle to Ukraine since 2022.

Simon and his team of 11 other drivers and supporters will set off from Teddington for the long road journey to Poland before crossing the border and meeting representatives of the CMA at their HQ in Lviv to hand over the vehicles which will to be deployed in the most useful way.

You can read more about Mighty Convoy here: www.mightyconvoy.org

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