there s a lot of damage to the kitchen as well. four staff pebzmembers were injured in the blast. three of them are recovering. today world central kitchen posted another picture from just outside kharkiv showing them at work providing hot meals and produce. i spoke with jose andres about the attacks. good to see you. first of all, how is everybody that s working in the facility that was struck in kharkiv? we were able to see the video that my friend did with the people that were wounded. four team members of one of our restaurant partners, they experienced they have some bruises. let me tell you what happened today. they began putting that was good to start being used again. they are putting that equipment
russia s air campaign and a critical part of its second phase of the war extends to other parts of the country. kharkiv, a missile strike hit a kitchen partnering with world central kitchen. it s the charity founded over a decade ago by chef jose andres. his ceo nate muke made this video after the strikes occurred. hey, guys. i m outside one of our restaurant partners here, less than 24 hours ago i was standing right here picking up meals for the wck team and meeting vera and the staff. not too long ago a missile hit here. as you can see, tremendous amounts of damage, still a fire in the building there. right here is the kitchen area that goes back.
in a new facility. tomorrow those men and women of that will be cooking. the ukrainian people are fighters. they we re here for our people and we ll keep fighting this war in the only way we know, which is feeding people. we are food fighters. it s amazing that they are going back to continue the work. did you ever think look, you worked all over the world and you worked in ukraine now for a while since the beginning of this thing. did you ever think something like this could happen? that a restaurant you partner with would be hit? i mean, understanding the moment we came to ukraine, we knew that something like this could happen. i mean, we need to understand one thing. we have more than 400 restaurant partners all across the ukrainian operation. many of them are inside ukraine. we are in more than 80 cities. we are delivering food in more
but there are many families that can t leave certain cities in the east. and so we re trying to get food supplies down to them. we re starting to hear of shortages. i spoke to the mayor s office in odesa, we ve seen two trucks down there to one of our restaurant partners and we have a large shipment of food going down on monday. that s got to be complex to try to orchestrate this. our team is doing incredible work with support from ukrainians here, our team in poland as well. it s a combination. we ve got trucks coming in from poland, three warehouses set up in lviv and this transportation system that we re building to try to get to ukrainians all across the country. a lot of people probably heard about world central kitchen, maybe for the first time with the hurricane down in puerto rico. you went down there, that s really i think where a lot of people learned the name. how does this situation compare to other places you ve operated? you know, with natural disasters, general
kitchens that were already there, that already had some food supplies to start working. chef jose, our founder, likes to say we have kitchens all over the world. the restaurant community, chefs are so strong, and they work together, and they jump into action. we ve been able to support those restaurants financially to purchase what they need, also bringing food supplies to them in hard-hit communities like odesa and mykolaiv, and also provide that guidance. when we started here in lviv, for example, one of our restaurant partners was producing about 2,000 meals a day, which is a lot. yesterday they produced over 33,000 meals for ukrainians here. it s one thing producing them, but then you have to distribute them. in some cases that s quite a risky enterprise. it is. we have to take multiple approaches. where we can, we have delivery drivers. here in lviv, for example, we re distributing to over 70 shelters here that are housing evacuees, refugees from the east here in lviv. then we