Evacuating people from active combat zones is never routine — it is a race against time. Our team never knows whether the road will still be passable, whether shelling will intensify, or whether they will be able to bring everyone out alive. And yet, they go — every single day.

Every day, Save Ukraine volunteers risk their lives driving into active combat zones — to rescue those who cannot flee on their own.

Thanks to Save Ukraine, more than 1,000 children have already been brought home. But thousands more are still waiting.

Mykyta is nine. When we first met, he clung tightly to his grandmother’s hand, avoided eye contact, and hesitated to take a toy — a bright red fire truck. For a long while, he just stood aside, watching quietly, as if trying to understand whether this place was truly safe.

At her first art therapy session, eight-year-old Lera sat quietly in the corner. When the therapist handed her a sheet of paper, she whispered: “I don’t know what to draw. Our house burned down.”

When 9-year-old Olenka arrived at our Hope and Healing Center, she was terrified. After spending a third of her life under occupation, every loud sound made her cover her head with her hands.

Thanks to Save Ukraine, more than 900 children have already been rescued from Russia and the temporarily occupied territories.

Now, families with young children have access to a place designed to help them grow, heal, and thrive from the very beginning.

We have signed a Memorandum of Cooperation with the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine — an important step that strengthens the joint efforts of the government and civil society in locating, protecting, and returning Ukrainian children abducted by Russia.