Day 30 — Svitlana
Russian forces abandoned a tank in her vineyard. Her staff towed it out with a tractor. She put it on the wine label. "We want to present the taste of Ukraine to the world." Day 30 of 40. Donate: www.razomforukraine.org/donate/ #Ukraine #Razom
Day 29 — Serhii
Every morning he loaded a van with bread, put on body armor, and drove into Chasiv Yar to help his neighbors who refused to leave. Russia took the city in 2025. He kept going anyway. Day 29 of 40. Donate: www.razomforukraine.org/donate/ #Ukraine #Razom
Day 28 — Father Taras
Some days he officiates at 5 funerals. Before his first trip to the front he wrote a farewell note. He went anyway. "Every day is like the last. You live for the sake of others." Day 28 of 40. Donate: www.razomforukraine.org/donate/ #Ukraine #Razom
Day 27 — Agnieszka
She runs a soup kitchen and a free shop in Kraków. Refugees gave her a name: Our Lady of Kraków. Last spring she sent a 5k-lb shipment to the front line in Donbas. "I can't ignore their suffering." Day 27 of 40. Donate: www.razomforukraine.org/donate/ #Ukraine #Razom
Day 26 — Petro
In 2023 he stood at the funeral of his daughter's fiancé, a soldier, and felt called to the seminary at 59. He's studying to become a Greek Catholic military chaplain. "Go to the seminary now." Day 26 of 40. Donate: www.razomforukraine.org/donate/ #Ukraine #Razom
Day 25 — Svitlana
In Feb 2022 she gave her apartment to her parents and slept on couches. She and 4 colleagues opened a center in Warsaw. No budget, no org, no experience. They helped 20,000 refugees. It's still going. Day 25 of 40. Donate: razomforukraine.org/donate #Ukraine #Razom
Day 24 — Andriy
He's the head of neurosurgery 60 miles from the front. He keeps a bag of shrapnel he's removed from soldiers' brains and pours it on his desk for visitors. 2000 war surgeries since 2014. "War is random." Day 24 of 40. Donate: www.razomforukraine.org/donate/ #Ukraine #Razom
Day 23 — Pavlo
He drives supplies into the Kherson region 25 times a year. "Sometimes I put a box of sweets in the street and the children just stand there and look. They don't grab them because they don't believe it's real." Donate: www.razomforukraine.org/donate/ #Ukraine #Razom
Day 22: Artur
"And then it passes on to the living." — Artur Dron, author. Yuliya Musakovska, translator. @JantarBooks www.jantarpublishing.com/product-page... Donate: www.razomforukraine.org/donate/ #Ukraine #Razom
Day 21 — Cuba
She left the front in 2019 to start a fashion brand. She showed at Ukrainian Fashion Week the last week of February 2022. She put down the fabric and picked up her kit. She has not put it down again. Day 21 of 40. Donate: www.razomforukraine.org/donate/ #Ukraine #Razom
Day 20 — Dmytro
He left his platoon of 35 soldiers to compete at the Paris Paralympics. No signal to reach them. "I sure hope there are still 35. They're in the middle of hell. Let's just assume there are still 35 of them." Day 20 of 40. Donate: www.razomforukraine.org/donate/ #Ukraine #Razom
Day 18 — Leonid
A sniper took his leg in 2015. He got a prosthetic and went home. In 2022 Russia invaded again. He rejoined at 39. 'I could not stay aside.' He is 42. Ten years of this war. Day 18 of 40. Donate: razomforukraine.org/donate/ #Ukraine #Razom
Day 19 — Redis
Youngest commander in Ukrainian military history at 26. Held Mariupol for 86 days. Captured. Detained in Turkey. Came back. "This is the war of exhaustion. Russia is exhausted too." Day 19 of 40. Donate: razomforukraine.org/donate/ #Ukraine #Razom
Day 17 — Olena
She left 20 years in restaurants to serve on Ukraine's front lines. On leave she gets her nails done. "Clean nails for one day gives me such relief." 70,000 Ukrainian women chose this. Happy International Women's Day. Day 17 of 40. Donate: razomforukraine.org/donat… #Ukraine #Razom
Day 16 — alyona alyona
She spent four years as a kindergarten teacher. Then a silly rap video went viral. Then she sang about saints to hundreds of millions at Eurovision — and rebuilt a school Russian rockets destroyed. Day 16 of 40. Donate: www.razomforukraine.org/donate/ #Ukraine #Razom
Day 15 — Yustyna
She showed up at hospitals and orphanages with paints and paper. She asked nothing. She just watched what came out. "It's hard not to start crying," Yustyna said. "But they continue living." Day 15 of 40. Donate: www.razomforukraine.org/donate/ #Ukraine #Razom
Day 14 — Maksym
"Fear can influence people in various ways. Some are paralyzed. Some are liberated." Two months later Russia invaded. He called his coach. "You won't convince me. I've made my decision." He was 22. Day 14 of 40. Donate: razomforukraine.org/donate/ #Ukraine #Razom
Day 12 — Polina
Her school was destroyed by a missile. She studies online in her bedroom, 100km from the front lines, with a stress condition that flares with every attack. She keeps going. That's its own kind of heroism. Day 12 of 40. Donate: www.razomforukraine.org/donate/ #Ukraine #Razom
Day 11 — Volodymyr
Before the invasion he didn't know he was an extrovert. Now he's 16, leads a youth organization, runs his school, and is rebuilding his country from the inside. "The war was a powerful push to start moving." Day 11 of 40. Donate: www.razomforukraine.org/donate/ #Ukraine #Razom
Thirty more Ukrainians to meet. Thirty more days.
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If you can't or don't want to, that's okay — I mean that sincerely. But if you want to walk the rest of Lent with me, I would love the company.
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Day 10 — Maria
In 1982 a Ukrainian peasant painted a white dove and called it "A Dove Has Spread Her Wings and Asks for Peace." In 2022 Russian soldiers burned the museum that held it. The guard ran into the flames. The dove survived. Donate: www.razomforukraine.org/donate/ #Ukraine #Razom
Day 9 — Asya
She ran a 700-dog shelter in Hostomel, directly in the path of the Russian advance on Kyiv. Soldiers shot one of her dogs. They locked her up for hours. She never left. "How can I stop?" Day 9 of 40. Donate: www.razomforukraine.org/donate/ #Ukraine #Razom
Day 8 — Valentyna
She watched garbage bags full of Ukrainian books stacked outside her library. Meanwhile, a colleague took the director job and called Ukrainian literature Nazi propaganda. Most people made the right choice. Day 8 of 40. Donate: www.razomforukraine.org/donate/ #Ukraine #Razom
Day 7 — Oksana
She worked food service in Kharkiv; twelve miles from the Russian border. When the invasion came she didn't close. She opened her doors wider and fed anyone who needed it. For free. Day 7 of 40. Donate: www.razomforukraine.org/donate/ #Ukraine #Razom
Day 6 — Volodymyr
They killed the kobzars in 1932. They killed composer Volodymyr Ivasyuk in 1979. In 2022 a soldier sang his song outside a thousand year old cathedral. You can kill the singers. You cannot kill the songs. Day 6 of 40. Donate: www.razomforukraine.org/donate/ #Ukraine #Razom
Day 5 — Vira
She was head midwife in Chernihiv. When the invasion came she moved her ward underground and stayed 42 days. 143 babies were born. Day 5 of 40. Donate: www.razomforukraine.org/donate/ #Ukraine #Razom
Day 4 — Oleksandr
He won Olympic silver on Feb 16, 2022. Eight days later, Russia invaded. He packed his medals and drove west. Day 4 of 40. Donate: www.facebook.com/donate/20017... #Ukraine #Razom
Day 3 — Rina
She was a biology teacher. Now she's a combat medic performing blood transfusions 200 meters from the front line. The scariest word she knows: triage. Day 3 of 40. Donate: www.facebook.com/donate/20017... #Ukraine #Razom
