More than 2,400 cardboard boxes crammed with food - partly funded with the help of Mail Force - are offering a lifeline to those fleeing Vladimir Putin s forces. The food is now on a train to Ukraine.
The Mail Force appeal has now funded over 500,000 food parcels which are starting to make their way from Leicester to Luhansk with 12,000 calories in each parcel.
Looming over potato fields, the hulking outline of the Polish warehouse comes into view. It is just after dawn, and 63 hours since Mail Force s mission set off carrying humanitarian cargo.
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Svetlana Tsymbal, her daughter Alona and granddaughter Sofia reached the Polish capital after attacks on their hometown of Zaporizhzhia forced them to flee earlier this month.