Mission — saving lives: 450 frontline trips by Valeriy Dubil and the Hope Youth Initiative Charitable Foundation

The Hope Youth Initiative Charitable Foundation, together with Valeriy Dubil, chairman of the foundation’s supervisory board and first deputy chair of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Health, Medical Care, and Medical Insurance, have been helping servicemembers, medics, and wounded defenders since the first days of the full-scale invasion. During that time the foundation’s team has carried out about 450 missions to the front.

"Ukraine is fighting for its future. Supporting the military, medical personnel, and people affected by the war is everyone’s duty. From the first days of the invasion we have been where it’s hardest, because our mission is to save lives. And we do it with faith — in God, in Ukraine, and in Ukrainians," said Valeriy Dubil.

The missions’ geography covers the Sumy region, Kharkiv region, Donetsk region, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson region. Aid was delivered to Kharkiv, Izium, Balakliia, and Druzhkivka, and to units on the Lyman, Sloviansk, Toretsk, and Pokrovsk directions. Recipients included servicemembers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR), the National Guard, border guards, and combat units of the National Police.

"We fulfill specific requests and deliver what’s needed at the positions — communications, charging stations, drone detectors. This equipment operates daily and helps save fighters’ lives. 450 trips to the front is serious work. Thanks to the whole team that does it," said Oleksii Serediuk, commander of the special unit "Bratstvo."

Equipment is delivered to the front based on military requests — vehicles, electronic warfare systems, drone detectors, ground robotic systems, Starlink terminals, charging stations, and generators. To save wounded during evacuation and at stabilization points they provide Easy Pulse devices for cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

"The rear and the Defense Forces stand on people like these. Thank you for your compassion and love for Ukraine," said Hero of Ukraine Vladyslav Stotsky after handing over aid to the servicemembers.

More than 1000 medical institutions across Ukraine have received aid from the foundation: frontline hospitals, military hospitals, stabilization points, operating rooms, and intensive care units. They have been supplied with ventilators, patient monitors, X-ray and ultrasound equipment, surgical instruments, medicines, and consumables.

Since the first days of the large-scale war, the Hope Foundation and Valeriy Dubil have supported Mechnikov Hospital in Dnipro, whose medical staff have saved more than 55 thousand lives. The facility received ambulances, operating tables, Easy Pulse devices, equipment for artificial lung ventilation, surgical systems, and medical cargo. "Our mission is to defeat death. The most critically wounded are brought to us, and 95% of the fighters who arrived here during the war were saved," said the hospital’s CEO Serhiy Ryzhenko.

The foundation supports defenders after injury as well. Under the "Scooters for Heroes" program, together with the Christian Corps, they provided more than 200 electric scooters to veterans with amputations. "Hope" cooperates with prosthetics and rehabilitation centers, supports veteran sports, and more than 200 veterans have already completed free IT training.

Valeriy Dubil and the Hope Foundation team continue to work alongside the military, medical workers, and partners toward a common goal — saving lives.