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.
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.
Kristina Korniiuk, 34, of Kyiv, was granted a visa under the Ukraine Sponsorship Scheme and arrived at Cambridge home of Rend Platings today after a journey which took more than 24 hours.