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Medical Life Lines Ukraine has delivered

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ambulances

to war-torn areas of Ukraine since the start of the full-scale invasion on 24th February 2022. Russia continues to target civilian infrastructure including apartments, hospitals, and electricity generation. The demand for humanitarian aid, civil defence support and medical supplies is unrelenting.

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First convoy of 2026

A small team made a special delivery of an urgently needed ambulance in early January 2026

Our drivers stop to take a photo just inside the border into Ukraine

The Poppy Convoy - November 2025

Five ambulances were handed over to recipients from Kherson, Zaporyzhia, Kharkiv region, Kyiv and Kramatorsk in Lviv and the sixth, mobile clinic, went to Kyiv

One of the ambulances is handed over to a rehabilitation centre in Ivano-Frankivsk

2025 September Convoy

Four more ambulances went out in September to two rehabilitation centres, to a hospital in the Kharkiv region and to the State Emergency Services in Dnipro. All hugely needed to save and improve the lives of people in their communities

We focus on three key areas:

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Ambulances for hospitals

Hospitals throughout the country have lost many ambulances to enemy action. We work with key partners to provide high quality vehicles so that civilian populations can access the urgent medical support that they so desperately need.

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Civil defence

Ukrainian rescuers frequently have to reach civilians trapped under collapsed buildings and need heavy lifting and other equipment (including cranes) to reach them. We find out what is needed, buy it and deliver it to where it needs to be.

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Delivering aid

Our vehicles arrive in Ukraine filled to the brim with medical and practical aid including dressings and medical kit, defibrillators, generators, mobility aids, sleeping bags and blankets for displaced people as well as dog food for rescue dogs helping the Rescue Service.

Who we are

We are a group of volunteers who liaise with pharmaceutical companies, pharmacies and hospitals across the UK to procure medical equipment and supplies.

We purchase second hand ambulances that are equipped and still functional but have been financially written off in the UK. We overhaul them and ensure they are in good working order. Filled with medical equipment and supplies, they are driven across the Poland-Ukraine border by volunteer fundraisers, to Ukrainian hospitals most in need.

With partners including the Ukrainian Ministry of Health and State Emergency Service we identify hospitals where our vehicles, equipment and aid can make a real difference. We source, check and buy the right vehicles, equipment and aid then repair it and deliver it to where it will have the greatest impact.

Our partners

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In the media

We have delivered a little under ten percent of all the ambulances to have been donated to Ukraine since the full-scale invasion. They have gone to medical centres including Kyiv City Hospital, Mykhailovsky Hospital, Boryspil neonatal centre, Okhmadyt Children’s Perinatal, Poltava, Chernihiv hospitals, Medical Plaza centre in Dnipro, Pervomaisk in Kharkiv region, Odessa emergencies services, Lviv, Kharkiv A&E, Pobuzhie Children’s, Artziz district hospital, Elderly home in Kirovograd region and others.

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