Fiona4Ukraine

Children across Ukraine have experienced death, injury and deprivation over nearly 4 years of war. As of late 2025, estimates from Save the Children, based on “new United Nations figures,” cite 733 children killed and 2,285 injured since February 2022. The real numbers are likely to be higher, due to undercounting or lack of verification, especially in occupied areas or active-combat zones. April 2025 marked the month in which the most children - 97 -  were killed or injured in Russian attacks on Ukraine . On 4 April, a missile attack on the central Ukrainian city of  Kryvyi   Rih  was the deadliest, single attack on children since the start of the full-scale invasion, according to UN-verified data. The missile hit a residential neighbourhood, striking a playground and nearby apartment buildings, killing 18 people,  including nine children, and injuring 75 others, among them 12 children. Many of the casualties were in the playground. ( https://www.savethechildre...

Thank you, Fiona, for giving me the opportunity to write in this blog. My name is Thomas and I reside in Guernsey. I am also the recent supplier, as mentioned in Fiona’s last blog, of her Yorkshire Tea!  Recently, I returned to Kharkiv to volunteer at Hell’s Kitchen for the third time. I have always been involved in the Kitchen’s food preparation but, on this occasion, I joined one of the Ukrainian volunteer drivers one morning, to deliver food to the hospitals the Kitchen supplies. It was a chance to see the places where the food we make goes. Fiona wrote about her experience earlier this year of joining one of the delivery drivers to the hospitals and I thought it would be good to share mine. I joined Kirill, one of the Kitchen’s delivery drivers, and visited three hospitals that the Kitchen serves, in different parts of the city. We split this into two journeys: two hospitals in the first load and, in the second load, one larger hospital. The Kitchen supplies food to other hospi...