KIWI K.A.R.E UKRAINE - Kiwi Aid & Refugee Evacuation

Vovchans’k is a small Ukrainian city in the Kharkiv Oblast (province) with a pre-war population of around 18,000.

Today it’s a forgotten ghost town inhabited by the elderly who either refuse to leave or who can’t leave.

The road from Kharkiv used to be good, taking no more than two hours. Today, it is the worst I’ve driven in Ukraine.

It takes over four hours to get into the township, navigating a sea of potholes and skirting many damaged bridges, driving through Chuhuiv and Khotymla,

Many won’t take their vans there; it’s too hard on the vehicles and it’s very close to the Russian border. At one point, we were only 1 kilometre from Russia, at a distribution point from where much needed humanitarian aid is delivered around the township.