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.
Missiles have rained down on the city of Sievierodonetsk for days, destroying all food depots, markets and shops as the Kremlin aims to capture the entire region.
Sir Keir Starmer and Foreign Secretary Liz Truss lead praise as readers generosity sends 500,000 boxes of food to starving families in Ukraine. Mail Force has been widely endorsed.
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.