🇬🇧 «Come guys, I'll show you what kind of water we have here. Look, it's yellow! Salty. The pipes can't take it anymore,» says Olha Viktorivna, director of the Mykolaiv Elderly Care Home. Elderly evacuees are brought here, especially those who cannot attempt the move on their own. Since Russian troops destroyed the water supply from the Dnipro river, potable water in the city has become a luxury. It is brought from other regions, and people stand in queues to collect it.

Thanks to French Anarchist Federation, feminist initiative Fem-lozha and Polish company Barents, we brought hygiene products, medicine, food, and clean water to the care home. But Olga Viktorivna's main request was for more diapers. «It is tough for our nurses to turn people over. Diapers make their work much easier. But they are expensive.»

Our partners from Social Movement (Sotsialniy Rukh) sent 50 food parcels for members of the trade union of Mykolaivoblenerho, the regional energy company. Although food is available in the city's stores, almost 80% of the locals have lost their jobs, so humanitarian aid is vital. Trade union leader Natalia complains about water quality too. A water filter could solve the water problem for almost 400 workers at the company. She asks volunteers to help her obtain one.

Our penultimate stop is at the Regional Association of the Trade Unions of State Institutions in Mykolaiv. 15 trade union members who'd just arrived for work were killed in the missile attack on the Mykolaiv Regional State Administration on March 29, among many others. Our friends from the volunteer project Trade Union Lifeline sent hygiene products, baby food, and medicine to the trade union.

Finally, we brought 10 chairs and strollers — a priceless gadget for Mykolaiv locals. It allows them to bring home much more drinking water than they can carry in their hands.

This was our first and hopefully not last trip to Mykolaiv. If you want to support our humanitarian front, you can donate here: [email protected]