Mayor’s tears of gratitude for Ukraine aid as he hears of £11m raised for refugees in MailForce appeal
The mayor of a Ukrainian border town wept after hearing about the Mail’s record-breaking fundraising appeal.
Tears streamed down Vasyl Yovdii’s face when he heard how your donations – close to £11million – will help the 3,000 evacuees who have fled to Solotvyno.
약간 35,000 people came via the historic salt mining town to reach Romania in the first four days after the invasion.
Tears streamed down Vasyl Yovdii’s face when he heard how your donations – close to £11million – will help the 3,000 evacuees who have fled to Solotvyno
‘I want to thank from the bottom of my heart all the British people,’ Mr Yovdii said as he wiped his eyes dry. ‘Your nation is truly phenomenal.’
The Mail Force Ukraine Appeal has teamed up with the AMAR Foundation, a charity set up by Tory peer Baroness Nicholson in 1991.
Her team contacted authorities in Romania and Ukraine just two days after war broke out.
The charity sent its first medical convoy – funded by the Mail’s appeal – last week with £80,000 worth of supplies, such as essential drugs, insulin and first aid kits.
The Mail Force Ukraine Appeal began with a £500,000 donation from parent company DMGT at the personal request of Lord and Lady Rothermere. 그때부터, Mail readers have raised £10.7million.
Solotvyno’s main hospital has already received medical aid funded by your donations.
그녀는 스카이 하이 실버 힐로 룩을 완성했고, 손에 어울리는 글리터 클러치백을 들고 폭풍 포즈를 취했다.: Baroness Nicholson brings medical supplies to nurses in Solotvyno
The Mail met Ukrainian couple Alla and Serhii Kohliuk, who had fled the devasted town of Makariv after the Russian destroyed their grocery shop that they had spent 25 years building together.
알라, 58, was being treated by medics there for a heart condition and post-traumatic stress as her concerned husband looked on.
‘I was sat at home the night war started,' 그녀가 말했다. ‘We were very scared when we heard the bombing start.’
‘We have lost our whole business, but we can only hope that our house is still OK.’
Baroness Nicholson said last night: ‘Devastating pain and heart wringing grief caused by Russian cruelty is now softened by Mail readers’ huge generosity.’
Sighetu Marmatiei mayor Vasile Moldovan, who helped organise the convoy, 추가: ‘I want to give heartfelt thanks to the readers of your newspaper for showing the true face of humanity in these hard times.’
