Aid on the front line: residents of Krasnohorivka received food packages from the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation

“We don't live, we survive. It's very difficult... People who help others are doing the right thing,” are the words of a resident of Krasnohorivka, a city on the line of fire, which is located next to temporarily occupied Donetsk.

Here, everyone feels close to the war. In order to support people in critically difficult circumstances, the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation handed over kits with the most necessary food products to residents. 

“People are drowning potbelly stoves. Firewood is harvested under fire. It's terrible. It's terrible, but these people need to be helped as much as necessary,” volunteer Mykola Osychenko, the Foundation ambassador and Head of Mariupol Television, shares his impressions.

Seeing the humanitarian aid car, men and women, mostly older, come out of the basements. Explosions are heard nearby.

“That's how it is all the time. Terrible. She lived here all her life. There would be a place to leave - I would leave, but there is nowhere,” admits one of the local residents. 

“Who will help us? No one helps us anymore. Rinat helps. Many thanks to him,” says another resident.

About the life of Ukrainians on the front line - watch on the YouTube channel of the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation: https://youtu.be/S-7VXA-EkwU 

In each set that local residents receive, there are long-term storage products: pasta, sugar, salt, flour, croups, canned beans, sunflower oil, stewed meat, pate, and cookies.

Since the beginning of the full-scale war, the Foundation has sent more than 328 thousand food kits to residents of the Donetsk region and those who temporarily evacuated from the region.

Since 2014, the Foundation has handed over 13 million food kits to Ukrainian residents. During this time, assistance from the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation, SCM businesses, and Shakhtar Football Club reached more than 18 million people.

Assistance is provided within the “Rinat Akhmetov - Saving Lives” program.

For more information on receiving food aid to territorial communities, please call the Foundation's free hotline at 0 (800) 509 001 or write to the Foundation's messenger https://m.me/AkhmetovFDU