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am part of a small team of part-time volunteers based in Devon. Our organisation is called Nightingales UK and for the past two years we have been buying vehicles and filling them with medical aid, which we then deliver to Ukrainian hospitals and directly to the front line.
So far we have delivered 12 vehicles, mainly 4x4s, which we have left in the country to be used as medical response cars.
In March the charitable trust that we work with in Ukraine asked if we could supply a minibus so that wounded soldiers and elderly, injured and unwell people could be transported to shelters and hospitals.
We accepted its request and bought a minibus for £3,000. Before we embarked on the journey, we sent the vehicle’s logbook to the Ukrainian authorities, only to find that it contained insufficient information, which means that the minibus isn’t allowed to enter the country.
