Safe Passage Ukraine

Safe Passage Ukraine Practical support, transport and assistance for Ukrainian refugees

We wish all those that supported us on our journey to help Ukrainians in need earlier this year a very happy (slightly b...
29/12/2022

We wish all those that supported us on our journey to help Ukrainians in need earlier this year a very happy (slightly belated) Christmas!

Back in early March we helped Roman and his family from Donetsk to reach Italy. At the time Roman was just 17 but soon after turning 18 he returned to Ukraine to join the armed forces and he’s recently been fighting in the SE of the country. We’ve stayed in sporadic contact throughout, occasionally providing small assistance wherever we’ve been able to from afar.

Roman recently sent us these photos, where in a break from fighting he and his colleagues were able to deliver Christmas gifts to children close to the frontline. A small token of hope at a time when life is very tough.

Please keep doing whatever you can to support causes helping the people of Ukraine, we all hope 2023 brings an end to the war and a return to normality for the tens of millions of people impacted.

Слава Україні (glory to Ukraine) 🇺🇦
Героям слава (glory to the heroes) 🙏

Two success stories from this weekend!…1) In March we helped and her young Ukrainian karate team mates from Zaporizhizh...
12/06/2022

Two success stories from this weekend!…
1) In March we helped and her young Ukrainian karate team mates from Zaporizhizhia. Today she won gold representing the Ukrainian National Team at the World Karate Federation Series A competition in Cairo! 👏
2) In April we helped sisters Alena and Zarina, along with their children Diana, Max, Ruslan, Nazar and Artur (+ dog Bonya). After a two month wait for their U.K. visas to be granted in Poland, Alena and her children have finally arrived in the U.K. to live with their host family in Shropshire. Zarina and her children are still waiting for their visas but hopefully they’ll come very soon 🤞

In early March we assisted Alla and her children from the chaos of the refugee exodus at the Polish-Ukrainian border to ...
29/04/2022

In early March we assisted Alla and her children from the chaos of the refugee exodus at the Polish-Ukrainian border to hostel accommodation in a rural town not far from Kielce. Alla was from the village of Slovechne, NW of Kyiv close to the border with Belarus and not far from Chernobyl. During the days that followed and as we went on to help many other refugees we kept in sporadic messaging contact with Alla (thanks to Google Translate) and she also kept in contact with relatives back home. Once Russian forces had withdrawn from the region Alla mentioned that no aid had yet reached her village and asked whether we knew of any way to help. Prior to our April return to Poland & Ukraine we purchased around 1000kg of supplies based upon lists Alla provided, with our Polish contact David kindly offering to store the items in his garage and also gathering donations from his own community, ready for us to collect and take across the border to Ukraine. Having left her children in the care of her grandmother (staying in the same refugee accommodation in Poland) Alla travelled ahead of us back to Slovechne and then met us with her husband and two vans in the town of Volodymyr in western Ukraine, where we shuttled the supplies across from Poland (with the help of another Ukrainian friend, Anna) and they then took them to Slovechne. Following this, Alla spent several days sorting and delivering the supplies in care packages to 80 households, as well as the local medical clinic. This is a selection of photos of many of those given the small amount of help we were able to organise, underlying every single photo are numerous stories of lives turned upside down by war

25/04/2022

30s of your aid in action! 🇺🇦

After working with us to get c.1000kg of aid across the border and to the village of Slovechne, NW of Kyiv, Alla spent three days sorting and distributing care packages to eighty households yet to receive outside assistance. These are just some of those helped

Our final mission of the trip complete…After four hours fitful sleep in Warsaw we were up at 04:00 and driving back to U...
24/04/2022

Our final mission of the trip complete…

After four hours fitful sleep in Warsaw we were up at 04:00 and driving back to Ukraine, this time to Lviv to collect two sisters, their five children and dog, who are coming to live with a host in Shropshire (U.K.) who follows our page! Mothers Zarina and Alena, and their children Diana, Max, Ruslan, Nazar, Artur and dog Bonia are from Cherkasy, SE of Kyiv. Having crossed the border in to Ukraine in record time (

Stepping into the past:Tim’s grandad was born Sobote Rohatyn, Poland. He spent some time living in Lwow now Lviv, which ...
23/04/2022

Stepping into the past:

Tim’s grandad was born Sobote Rohatyn, Poland. He spent some time living in Lwow now Lviv, which at the time was part of Poland.
In 1941, He was captured by Stalin and the Russians, he was sent to Siberia to a gulag which was a forced labour camp and held up to 18 million people. He lost all of his land he owned.

When he was released he was forced to become a Russian citizen. A large group refused and joined Anders army and escaped to Iran eventually ending up fighting on Monte Cassino. Then he made his way over to the Uk and ended up in Wales. (Probably missed a few bits out here but there are so many unknowns in this situation)

His last know address in Lviv was just around the corner from this monument of a Polish poet named Adam Mickiewicz in the centre of modern day Lviv. We were lucky enough to spend an hour in Lviv today and managed to find this monument and get to spend a moment reflecting on what happened. It may be undergoing some maintenance but it certainly felt special to stand in my Grandfathers footsteps all these years later during this, another horrific war.

There are always unexpected moments in life and you need to grab and cherish them this was certainly one of them.

We have picked up our last family in Lviv this afternoon and are driving them to Krakow. This will be our last trip acro...
23/04/2022

We have picked up our last family in Lviv this afternoon and are driving them to Krakow. This will be our last trip across the border. Fingers crossed it’s better than yesterdays (6.5hrs). Henry and I also managed a sneaky hour look around Lviv before collecting them, what a beautiful city it is. Updates to follow later on today.

Yesterday we helped the most lovely family from Pokrovsk, Donetsk. Father Alexey, mother Katarina, children Sofia (16), ...
23/04/2022

Yesterday we helped the most lovely family from Pokrovsk, Donetsk.

Father Alexey, mother Katarina, children Sofia (16), Ilia (11), Kira (2), Viktoria (1), grandmother Lara and aunt Nina.

They fled their home over a month ago and we picked them up from the house of some Ukrainian volunteers in a rural village near Kovel’, where they had been able to stay temporarily. Pokrovsk is a town not far from the current frontline and is somewhere cluster munitions are recorded as having been used on civilian areas. Sofia told us they have no idea if their house still exists because almost all of the residents have now fled and the surrounding fighting is intense. They also have relatives in the south of Donetsk, closer to Mariupol, who have lost everything.

After a 6.5 hour queue to get across the border we took them to Warsaw and put them up in a hotel for a couple of nights while they organise onward plans. Beyond an idea of going to Lithuania, because Poland is already overwhelmed, they have no plan where to go next. We can only imagine the trepidation of being forced to leave everything behind, not knowing where your children will sleep next or what the future holds.

We wish them the very best and hope to see them again one day soon in better circumstances 🇺🇦 🤝 🇬🇧

https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/safepassageukraine

Your donations in action! Alla has been busy distributing our aid to over 80 households in the village Slovechne (Словеч...
22/04/2022

Your donations in action! Alla has been busy distributing our aid to over 80 households in the village Slovechne (Словечне) today. Here are a few photos she sent us. Thank you Alla 🙏

Please keep enabling us to help as many Ukrainian people as possible by donating. We will continue to do everything possible and ensure every penny is spent on Ukrainian people in need 👍

https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/safepassageukraine

This morning we’re in rural Ukraine collecting a family of eight (mother, father, four children and two grandmothers) wh...
22/04/2022

This morning we’re in rural Ukraine collecting a family of eight (mother, father, four children and two grandmothers) who have fled from Donetsk region. We will take them to Warsaw, where they hope to then go to Lithuania to live, but they don’t yet have any travel or housing plans. We’ll see what we can do! Please get in touch if you’re in Lithuania and can help!🤞

Many people now fleeing the south and east of Ukraine are finding that a lot of the opportunities for even temporary accommodation are now taken. This is a real challenge

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