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Days 6 & 7: Anti-aircraft action beside us at a petrol station. From Dnipro to Zaporizhzhia, the front feels uncomfortably close. We descend underground to train for mass trauma. Here, technology kills — and tries to heal. Return to Day 5. Driving south that evening, we felt the war’s proximity. At a petrol station an [...]
Day 5: Kharkiv’s surgeons work by day — and supply the front by night. We learn how wounded soldiers are evacuated under constant drone threat. Two out of three vehicles surviving is considered success. This is modern warfare’s grim arithmetic. Return to Days 3 & 4. Thursday 30th October Olha, head of surgery at Zaitsev [...]
Days 3 & 4: A single day takes us from Lviv, via medieval mosaics in Kyiv to Georgian lamb under curfew in Kharkiv. Here the war is closer, louder, and impossible to ignore. Cemeteries tell one story, mobile medical clinics another. Kharkiv is a city that refuses to stop living. Return to Day 1&2 Tuesday [...]
Days 1 & 2: Over the next four posts we will tell the story of our eight-day 2000 km road trip across Ukraine last October; we will describe the extraordinary people we met and what we discovered about the country and the war. Lviv looks like Central Europe at peace — cafés full, streets alive [...]
On Thursday 13th November, MedAid International hosted a powerful evening at The Frontline Club in London, drawing a standing-room-only crowd to address one of Ukraine's most pressing challenges: the mental health crisis facing soldiers, veterans, and civilians. With more than one million veterans expected to return from the front lines, many carrying the invisible wounds [...]
As the war in Ukraine grinds on month by month, the country faces an inexorable mental health crisis. Members of the armed forces and veterans of the conflict struggle with PTSD and related conditions. The broader population is suffering too - from the effects of the continued bombardment, the loss of their loved ones or [...]
Moe Kolo's lead psychologists Viktoriia Petrova and Vasyl Vasiluk have collaborated on the CBT self-help manual for the "How are you?" campaign set up by the First Lady to help address the mental health crisis in Ukraine. This online manual will be accessible to millions of people as well as mental health professionals across [...]
Having originally planned to raise £50,000, and after lifting our target to £75,000 within two months of launch, we are delighted to say that the campaign has raised more than £104,000 as of July 2025.
Moe Kolo our partner NGO in the mental health counselling space and the Lviv Regional Emergency Medical Care and Disaster Centre have signed a memorandum of cooperation.
In November 2024 we passed a depressing anniversary, 1000 days since the 2022 full scale Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Catherine Kinane joins as Board Mental Health Advisor.
First meeting in Ukraine of MedAid International trustees and our extraordinary partners from Moe Kolo and STEP-IN.
The MedAid and Moe Kolo teams had the opportunity to take part in a private discussion with Professor Catherine Kinane.
Ariane Cowley joins MedAid International with a focus on mental health partnerships and fund raising.
MailForce the charity launched by the Daily Mail and General Trust plc makes a major grant to MedAid International.
