The Mail Force mission to deliver 500,000 of our food parcels to the warzone - in a joint-operation with the Ukrainian embassy in London - rolled into the village yesterday.
Villagers living in areas close to the Russian border were delighted to receive the first shipment of vital aid packages, which have been part-funded by our Mail Force appeal.
Weeks of heavy shelling and occupation by Russian forces had left the frontline village of Mezenivka in a desperate situation - and locals have gone weeks without a proper meal.
Svetlana Ginzhul, 54, has not heard from her soldier husband in over a week. instead of brooding on her troubles, the mother of three has opened her home in the village of Luch.
When Olya Robertson heard Inna Horbenko was hiding in a basement in Ukraine as missiles rained down, she did not hesitate to offer her old schoolmate shelter in the British home where she now lived.