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Medical Life Lines Ukraine have delivered

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ambulances

to war-torn areas of Ukraine since the start of the full-scale invasion on 24th February 2022. Russia continues to target civilian infrastructure including apartments, hospitals, and electricity generation. The demand for humanitarian aid, civil defence support and medical supplies is unrelenting.

Big Heart Convoy 2025

We brought four new ambulances to Ukraine just in time for Valentine's Day 2025. Two went to hospitals and two to the State Emergency Services of Ukraine: ambulances went to Kyiv, Kharkiv and Mykolaiv. We also delivered three football shirts signed by Ukrainian Arsenal footballer Zinchenko!

Committee member Dan stands next to the ambulance we delivered

New Year's convoy 2025

Early on January 3rd, two of our team left the UK to make a very special delivery to meet an urgent need to evacuate the wounded in the Donetsk region. Our ambulance arrived safe and well

Our team of drivers and ambulance recipients stand in front of the delivered vehicles

Remembrance Convoy

In November 2024, we delivered five more ambulances to Ukraine. Two went to the State Emergency Services of Ukraine (SESU) and three to hospitals in the Kharkiv and Kyiv regions

We focus on three key areas:

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Ambulances for hospitals

Hospitals throughout the country have lost many ambulances to enemy action. We work with key partners to provide high quality vehicles so that civilian populations can access the urgent medical support that they so desperately need.

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Civil defence

Ukrainian rescuers frequently have to reach civilians trapped under collapsed buildings and need heavy lifting and other equipment (including cranes) to reach them. We find out what is needed, buy it and deliver it to where it needs to be.

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Delivering aid

Our vehicles arrive in Ukraine filled to the brim with medical and practical aid including dressings and medical kit, defibrillators, generators, mobility aids, sleeping bags and blankets for displaced people as well as dog food for rescue dogs helping the Rescue Service.

Who we are

We are a group of volunteers who liaise with pharmaceutical companies, pharmacies and hospitals across the UK to procure medical equipment and supplies.

We purchase second hand ambulances that are equipped and still functional but have been financially written off in the UK. We overhaul them and ensure they are in good working order. Filled with medical equipment and supplies, they are driven across the Poland-Ukraine border by volunteer fundraisers, to Ukrainian hospitals most in need.

With partners including the Ukrainian Ministry of Health and State Emergency Service we identify hospitals where our vehicles, equipment and aid can make a real difference. We source, check and buy the right vehicles, equipment and aid then repair it and deliver it to where it will have the greatest impact.

Our partners

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In the media

We have so far delivered 91 ambulances to such destinations as Kyiv City Hospital, Mykhailovsky Hospital, Boryspil neonatal centre, Okhmadyt Children’s Perinatal, Poltava, Chernihiv hospitals, Medical Plaza centre in Dnipro, Pervomaisk in Kharkiv region, Odessa emergencies services, Lviv, Kharkiv A&E, Pobuzhie Children’s, Artziz district hospital, Elderly home in Kirovograd region and others.

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