Before the war, Oleksiy Timofeev, a founder of Timofeev Trekking, had spent over 20 years leading hikes in the Carpathian Mountains. When Russia attacked Ukraine, Oleksiy gathered a team of devoted volunteers in just three days.
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Since then, rain or shine, with temperatures dropping sometimes to 10 below zero, his Team Cook has prepared over 7000 servings of food and had only one day off, and that is only because of the citywide curfew.
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Oleksiy named the trailer Tanechka in honor of his wife who he’s been separated from since the beginning of the war. Just like countless Ukrainians, Oleksiy has family and friends who are scattered across the country, so every day is fraught with anxiety.
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Oleksiy keeps his team’s spirits up and inspires others to volunteer in his social media posts: “I’m proud to have been born in Ukraine. I might even be a descendant of the Zaporizhzhia Cossacks. And I do not doubt that the victory is ours!” #volunteers#DefendUkraine#DATTALION
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1. In Kharkiv the Russians gun fired at people at a post office distributing humanitarian aid. At least six civilians were killed. Another 15 were wounded and hospitalized.
2. The Russian occupants carried out rocket and phosphorus bombardment of the Luhansk region — four people were killed. Sievierodonetsk, Lysychansk, Rubizhne, Kreminna, Novodruzhsk and Voivodivka were hit.
3. The Russian occupants fired Kalibr missiles from the Black Sea at the center of Kharkiv. In total, the occupants made 44 artillery, tank, and mortar strikes at Kharkiv in the past 24 hours. Kharkiv was also shelled 140 times with Grad and Uragan multiple rocket launchers.
1. Twenty-four people have been found dead under the rubble of the building of the Kharkiv Regional Administration. This building was shelled to ashes by the Russians on March 1.
2. Kateryna Dyachenko, a Ukrainian 11-year old gymnast, tragically died after her home in Mariupol was bombed. The tragedy was reported by Kateryna's coach Anastasia Meshchanenkova on her Instagram.
3. The Russian invaders killed a woman in Trostyanets, Sumy region, who was just riding her bicycle. 4. The Russian shell hit a multi-story building in Rubizhne, Luhansk region. Three people were killed, including two children.
1. A Russian tank fired at a civilian car being driven by a family with two children near Kharkiv. Both parents and a 9-year-old girl were killed, a 17-year-old boy was injured.
2. In Siverodonetsk, the occupants shelled a grocery store with civilians shopping for food inside. There Ukrainians are dead another 3 wounded.
3. The Russian troops carried out missile attacks on the city of Pavlograd in Dnipropetrovsk region, destroying the Pavlograd-2 railway station. One person was killed.