Winter 2025/26 Appeal
Since the Russians invasion the Ukrainian people and armed forces have been incredible in their courage and resistance. The Ukrainians are fighting our European war.
This coming winter war will be another test of will and logistics. Ukraine Freedom Company’s purpose is to demonstrate our solidarity and our commitment by providing supplies that will help sustain the Ukranian people over the coming months and provide an advantage on the battlefield.
Please donate now and help us purchase and supply warm clothing, trauma medical supplies, 4x4s and other vehicles, generators and other critical aid that is being requested and urgently required.
Welcome
Convoy 30 – March 26
Convoy 30 began with a familiar sense of controlled chaos. David and Charlie brought two vehicles down from Herefordshire to the Barn: an Isuzu—on its third attempt to reach Sumy—and a Mercedes Vito generously loaned to UFC.
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Convoy 29B – February ’26
Following the efforts of Convoy 29 to leave the UK a few weeks earlier Convoy 29B had just as difficult birth. The plan was for two vehicles to catch a ferry from Dover one morning at the end of February. Lessons learned, our team set out to deliver another much needed convoy to those in need in Ukraine.
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Convoy 29 – January ’26
Convoy 29 did not go to plan. Both vehicles broke down, separately, in the UK before departing from British shores and neither was able to reach mainland Europe. This was the first UFC convoy not to make it that far. Accordingly, some lessons can/should be learned.
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Convoy 24 – June ’25
Day one takes us from deepest Dorset to Dover via Faversham (to collect helmets and ballistic plates) followed by a freight ferry crossing to Calais. Two vehicles, four drivers – Andy, Rich, David H and David G- and a great deal of medical aid and equipment to help save frontline lives. Destinations? Several. The most notable part of the day is that nothing is amiss with the paperwork. Not a single serial number or unique code is wrong. Hallelujah!
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Convoy 22 – March ’25
Sir Julian, Tim, Jules, Marcus, Charles, Sharon, Rich and David were the drivers for this convoy and were accompanied by sundry others who were travelling to various conferences and events in recognition of the third anniversary of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia. UFC had four 4 x4’s for delivery to Ukraine out of a convoy of ten. One of the vans carried an MP travelling with us to attend the conference in Kyiv.
The trip did not go as planned…
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Convoy 20 – February ’25
Everyone accounted for at the barn and introductions made and briefing over, we head for Dover and our last driver, Grant. The weather is not welcoming and the sea looks like it’s been irritated – badly! Ferry after ferry is cancelled. We sit in the cafe, drink coffee and wait – and wait. Nearly five hours later, a ferry boards; not ours, but hey! It’s a ride to France. Not the start we were expecting …
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Convoy 19 – December ’24
Anton, Charlie, Grant and David leave Dover on 7th December in two suvs filled with Christmas boxes for Kyiv Children’s Hospital; and generators, comfort boxes and medical aid for soldiers (tourniquets, haemostatic bandages, trauma dressings, medicines).
The omens are not good. On the motorway, Anton and Grant’s vehicle starts to lose power.
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Whats Cooking In Ukraine – Special Event – 21st September ’24
Come with us and support Ukraine.
Saturday 21st Sep, at the Village Hall, Main St, Shroton from 6pm-9pm.
Tickets £10 (cash) available from Iwerne Courtney, Shorton, DT11 8QD.
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Convoy 16 – August ’24
“We don’t want any more applauding from your governments. We want action here in Ukraine.”
It was with that message from our contact driving us to Kherson and in that spirit that UFC Convoy 16 delivered three truckloads of vital medical and humanitarian aid to four cities across Ukraine.
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Convoy 15 – May ’24
From 14th – 20th May 2024 “Convoy 15”, of the Ukraine Freedom Company (UFC), delivered vital humanitarian aid, to the Kyiv and Dnipro regions of war-torn Ukraine.
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Convoy 14 – April ’24
On Saturday 20th April, “Convoy 14”, of the Ukraine Freedom Company (UFC), consisting of three vehicles loaded with vital humanitarian aid, departed a loading base in the South West of England on the first stage of its journey to the Donbas region of war-torn Ukraine.
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Bravo Convoy – February ’24
Mid-February saw Ukraine Freedom Company join forces with our partners Maccelsfield Ukraine Aid to run a five-vehicle convoy into Ukraine. The objective of the mission was to deliver critical supplies, including medical kit and two RIBs, which were requested for casualty evacuation. The vehicles were also to be donated to Ukrainian units and humanitarian groups.
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Oscar Convoy 12 January ’24
On the cold bright morning in late January 2024, UFC Convoy 12 set off from the Company’s depot in Hampshire for the Channel Tunnel.
The convoy consisted of 2 reconditioned 2007 vehicles – a Ford Transit van and a green-sprayed Mitsubishi Trojan 4 x 4, both destined for delivery to agencies in Ukraine and loaded with a variety of humanitarian aid including high-end combat medical supplies; medicines and drugs for hospital use; material for a displaced persons’ charity and, finally, British military field uniforms.
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Ukraine Freedom Company welcomed to Salisbury
Ukraine Freedom Company were welcomed to Salisbury, to meet with Ukrainian charity worker Max Maslennikov, General Sir Richard Shirreff and former diplomat Raymond Asquith, Lord Oxford.
Max Maslennikov who ran an IT business in Dnipro prior to the war left the audience in awe by the scale of the challenge he and others like him face on a daily basis in Ukraine. Within days of the Russian invasion, he was helping the first refugees fleeing the fighting, distributing food and arranging emergency accommodation.
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Convoy Kilo mentioned in the House of Commons
Shortly after our return from Convoy Kilo, Alex Sobel MP mentions Ukraine Freedom Company in a debate in the House of Commons
David ‘Joe’ Seeney exhibition in The Courtyard, Hereford
On February the 24th 2022 Russia illegally invaded Ukraine.
We all saw on the news the horrors that have been, and continue to be, inflicted on innocent Ukrainian people.
Now Ukraine needs our help more than ever.
Please help us to help Ukraine by giving a donation to buy lifesaving medical equipment, generators and cold weather supplies.
Following the Russian invasion the Ukraine people have been incredible in their courage and resilience.
The Russians are increasingly targeting and killing civilians, destroying essential infrastructure with the aim of breaking Ukraine’s will to resist.
It is essential now that we do all we can to provide humanitarian support and aid to the Ukrainians over the coming months and until they are able to secure their future freedom.
This is why a small team have created the Ukraine Freedom Company (UFC) as a not-for-profit company, with charitable aims, whose purpose is to demonstrate our solidarity – our commitment – by providing humanitarian supplies that will help sustain the people of Ukraine.
We are all volunteers and we transport all the humanitarian aid through Europe and into Ukraine for distribution and to that end, we at UFC, work closely with a network of trusted Ukrainian civilians who receive and distribute the aid to those most in need in the war-torn east of their country.
The Ukrainian people desperately need our help and they are asking us to urgently supply the following;
• Medical Supplies – for General, District and Children’s hospitals, Refuges in Kherson and other regional centres, where it is desperately needed.
• Generators – to power, light and heat Hospitals, ‘Invincibility’ warm centres, refuges for women and children and community spaces
• Cold Weather Supplies – thermal clothing, boots, winter sleeping bags and other kit to sustain them through the cold; and
• Vehicles – 4x4s and vans to transport supplies to where it is needed most
Please donate generously – you can give us any of the above and we will arrange collection. Or you can donate funds; we know there are lots of competing claims on your money – but with the anniversary of the invasion next month and an anticipated ‘final’ push from the Russians (possibly including the Belarusian army), the Ukrainian people need our help. Your donation will enable us to buy these urgently needed supplies and to deliver them quickly and directly to the people near the front line in Eastern Ukraine.
Thank you – Marcus Dixon on behalf of the Ukraine Freedom Company.