It made me smile to see a ghost

It made me smile to see a ghost:
Patchy signal and some tricky roads made it an little difficult to update- sorry.
Seeing brothers from other mothers in the shape of Kari and James lurking in a Warsaw carpark with a Transporter and box trailer stuffed to the max with the most incredibly generously donated stock of medical supplies, winter clothing, sleeping bags, booster seats, bottled water and crates of Monster etc it was a massive spirit lift.

The guys had put a 15 hour non-stop drive in from Finland to basically trade insults with me and that’s why they’re awesome humans.
Thank you to everyone in the Fin that put a huge amount of hard yards in so the lads could be released from whatever institution is currently holding them.

So.. med equipment hauled into a central distribution hub and will be winging it’s way around the country via smaller, less conspicuous vehicles, Kharkiv and Kyiv being the main end users.

Generators into Lyviv and then on to another town to meet the onward transport and drop clothing, food, kids cold weather gear etc for a Kids home.

Stopped at a refugee shelter so I could sleep in thier car park and got bullied by the ladies inside into taking a bag of biscuits and bowl of soup – agreed it was best thing I’d ever tasted as it seemed like they’d probably kill me in my sleep if I didn’t.

Bounced out the next day to head back to the border and dropped some surgical disinfectants that had been hiding in a crate. Route planning was shattered by the sight and sound of a UAF Mig on full burn at low altitude – big shout out to the Ghost of Kyiv.

Met a crew of squaddies steaming in the cold as they raced to build a fortification, I had a wood fired stew cooker and a crate or water and monster for them, I’ve never seen lad that age get excited about cooking so I’m guessing they’ve been on cold scoff.

Back on the road North and made my way passed the queues of vehicles that starts 20+ kilometres before the border and the queues of kids and women standing in the light snowfall and steady breeze that rips at your body heat like a shoal of piranhas. It hits me hard seeing that.

I found a food station being run by a crew of Americans and emptied anything edible and drinkable from the truck into thier store tent. I’m going to take day to see my family and make a lot of calls. A knight in green scrubs is heading our way soon and somehow we need to find and adapt a Landcruiser to become a battlefield ambulance as well as anything else we can blag.

I saw a photo of a soldier trying to administer first aid to the father of a family of 5 after a morter attack, he was the only one with a pulse. We need this ambulance.

Love you all xx

Some footage from Jez today after dropping off people donations I ran down with kari last week.

This is on the way to the border.

I’ll be returning to Poland this week with a mini bus courtesy of Secto Automotive to bring back people and pets to Finland.
Delivering the rest of the med supplies and the clothing from Steripolar Oy and Sail Racing International.
Vellamo Water the check point guys really appreciated the water. And Monster Energy the energy drinks were loved but they asked for no pics. If either of you want to send more just let me know 👍

Massive thanks to everyone who chipped in no matter how big or small, you helped with getting some last minute requests, some fuel and even the snacks that kept us going on the way. The excess will go into the trucks tank to keep it rolling back in on the next run and for some smaller things we’ve since found out are needed.

Much love from Jez, Kari and myself for all the support, it’s been most humbling.