The response has been overwhelming, he says. In recent days, the scouts have dispatched humanitarian and medical aid to the capital Kyiv, to the eastern city of Kharkiv and Mykolaiv near the Black Sea, Kolobochok says.īut with around 50 fellow scouts now fighting the Russians, his team are also actively looking for night-vision goggles, GPS systems, and army food ration packs. In a medicine section, insulin sits in the fridge.
The storehouse shelves are stacked with everything from sleeping bags and tents, to flour, coffee drinks, medical gloves and soap. The storehouse shelves are stacked with everything from sleeping bags and tents, to flour, coffee drinks, medical gloves and soap Yuriy Dyachyshyn AFP Today, a team of fellow scouts receive requests for aid from across the country on a messaging app, then carefully match them up with available supplies on a multicoloured spread sheet. Standing between shelves stuffed high with donations from across the world, the improvised logistician is just one of a flurry of volunteers across Ukraine applying a range of talents to help.īefore the war, Kolobochok headed the souvenir department of a restaurant chain, but also travelled to the US through his job as a medical courier for a Ukraine-based surrogacy company, he said.Īfter Russia invaded on February 24, he asked his bosses at the restaurant business to borrow a corner of their warehouse. "If you're a good hustler, you should do it," he said. In times of war, everybody should contribute with their best skill, said the veteran scout in the western region of Lviv.
His friend had messaged him a website link for the telescopic lens he needed, and he was in the middle of ordering one from the United States.
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