Special Aug 9th Bulletin Update

Our Mission continues to save lives in Ukraine, now in record real time!

Less than twenty-four hours after I asked for your help in buying three inflatable rafts so that our Field Hospital can save more Ukrainian soldiers’ lives by being able to transport the wounded from the battlefield to the field hospital more quickly – two of you donors immediately stepped-up (anonymously), so that along with myself, we could each buy one boat – and today, as we speak our fixer Theo Petrov is traveling to the front lines to the Field Hospital to deliver the boats, plus six repair kits and two hand pumps!

I know I can speak for the doctors and nurses at our hospital, along with the countless numbers of Ukrainian soldiers who will benefit from this life-saving gift, in thanking you donors (you and I know who you are) for your incredibly quick and generous reply!

This quick (and very complete) response to Ukrainian needs perfectly personifies our Mission, as we are literally providing the neediest Ukrainians with the most-needed aid, and now in record time: it has been a total of four days since the doctors at our Field Hospital first notified us of this vital need – to when we personally delivered this important equipment to them.

I can think of no better example of how our aid literally helps to save lives than this.

When I was there at our Field Hospital two weeks ago, the doctors and nurses told me that the leading cause of death among the soldiers there serving on the front lines, is bleeding-out from wounds either caused by Russian fragmentation bombs or by small arms fire.

Ever since two months ago, when the Russians destroyed all of the bridges crossing all of the small rivers and streams in this region, the only available transport route for injured soldiers took an average of two hours longer than previously when the bridges were still intact. And with conditions being still too hotly contested to allow for the rebuilding of these bridges, there are no other routes available to the doctors and soldiers, and as a result, the Hospital staff told me that in those last two months, they lost upwards of 20 soldiers who bled-out on these long drives and died before they reached the Hospital.

With these inflatable rafts now at their disposal, they’re able to get the wounded to the hospital in as little as 20 minutes, and even for the more distant battlefields, cutting two hours off of the “ambulance ride” will mean more soldiers surviving and living to fight another day.

All it took for making this meaningful life-saving work possible was me gathering the factual needs from the front lines and relaying them to the generous people that support and follow our Mission – which then resulted in our Mission getting the needed funds and one of our Mission Team Members going to a store in Mykoliav and buying these boats, then taking them to the front lines Hospital!