Ukraine Aid

04/01/2026

From March 2022 to December 2025, I have received extraordinary support from foundations, companies like RGV, friends, and Facebook contacts who have stepped up and shown what real commitment and friendship means — including individuals such as Adam, Declan, Martyn, Stuart, Paul, Steve, and from Poland Magda G and Ewa P. Others, including Lord Cruddas and the late Lord Tebbit, who kicked off the fundraising in 2022. The support given has translated directly into lives saved and morale boosted.

Funding has enabled the delivery of evacuation vehicles to extract the wounded and move supplies under fire; ground drones to get supplies into trenches and evacuate the injured more safely; specialist medical equipment, including endoscopy equipment and ultrasound scanners for internal examinations; and thousands of tourniquets and bandages that stop catastrophic bleeding within a few minutes.

I have also purchased generators, sleeping bags, and laptops for schools, allowing children to continue learning in air-raid shelters.

Every pound raised has been used effectively, focused on what is most urgently needed and where it can have the greatest impact.

As we move into 2026, the support will continue through personal missions by me and with the help of trusted partners in Ukraine. This war is not ending anytime soon, and sustained support remains essential.

04/12/2025

Please share. Funding only available for medical supplies.

As a volunteer I have so far raised over £255,000 to support humanitarian and medical work in Ukraine. Today, I am very happy to share the news that I have received a further significant injection of funding from a foundation I collaborate closely with.

26/10/2025

“The 68th Separate Jaeger Brigade, the Unmanned Systems Battalion “Dovbush’s Hornets,” wanted to thank John Abbey for purchasing the excellent ground robotic complex “Hope,” which helps us carry out combat missions. Glory to Ukraine! Glory to the heroes!”
Drones have made it damn near impossible to get supplies to the front without taking casualties. Vehicles are sitting ducks — three of the trucks I’ve taken to Ukraine have been blown apart by drones, leaving nothing but death and shattered lives behind. These unmanned ground drones can run supplies to the trenches and pull the wounded out when it’s too dangerous for the guys to try. Financial backers Like Adam and Declan, Lord Cruddas, and many others I cannot name, some reading this post, as well as Foundations make this possible. But of course, nothing would be possible without my trusted networks in Ukraine led by Liubov, Olesia, and Rosty.

05/10/2025

My trusted colleague in Kyiv, Olesia Briazgunova, has just shared this video with me — a reminder of why this work is so very important.

For more than three years, I’ve been raising funds to deliver urgent humanitarian aid to Ukraine. Sometimes I’ve personally transported the supplies; other times I’ve relied on trusted colleagues in Ukraine, like Olesia, to purchase and distribute aid locally. I’ve also had enormous help with logistics in the UK and Poland.

From the very beginning, the priority has been clear: get critical aid to where it’s needed—fast—usually within a week.

To date, I’ve raised £250,000 cash and a further £50,000 worth of kit.

This includes:
Life-saving medical supplies mostly to stop bleed out
Endoscopy equipment
Portable Ultrasound devices
Vehicles converted into ambulances
Building materials to repair homes shattered by shelling
Generators
Power packs
Jammers to bring down drones
Laptops for schools children
Women’s sanitary products
Stretchers

Tracking where aid ends up in a war zone is never simple, but I’ve been consistently amazed by how diligently local groups and medics send reports. Hand me a map of Ukraine and I can pinpoint exactly where the 12 vehicles I’ve purchased have gone. (Well, 9 of them—three have been destroyed in combat zones.)

I’m deeply grateful to every individual and foundation that has stood with me on this journey—a journey I originally thought would be a single fundraising round and one trip to Kyiv back in April 2022. How wrong I was.

It hasn’t always been easy balancing my business, my amazing clients, and this life-saving mission. But when you start something like this… how do you step back?

💛 Thank you to everyone who has supported, donated, transported, or simply cheered me on. Your help has made a real difference. It has saved lives.

01/09/2025

From London to the front and now back in Kyiv. The truck safely delivered to the guys. Medical supplies to the amazing Valeria. The mission 100 percent success. Thanks to everyone that made it happen. Couldn't do it without my amazing supporters.

25/08/2025

With Yurii. One of the directors of the largest tank factory in Ukraine and a man helping me get aid to where it is needed.

22/08/2025

Soon on the road.

17/08/2025

Preparing for my next mission. This will be my 12th truck going out. This time to Kharkiv. Made possible by my amazing supporters.

28/06/2025

An ambulance my brilliant donors helped to stock, not far from the frontline. The amazing Valaria. At the young age of 22, a medic and veteran of this war. She will never stop putting destroyed bodies back together. Saving lives is all she knows.

24/05/2025

More tourniquets have arrived to frontline positions. With spring, the Russian offensive is intensifying. Casualties are mounting. Do not, even for a moment, mistake a prisoner exchange for imminent peace. There will be no lasting peace until Russia fully withdraws from Ukraine. Ukraine needs Arms and men, and yes a miracle.

09/05/2025

It's been a long time since I had to supply tourniquets. Not a good sign.

17/04/2025

This is what you call quality reporting. Not only the pictures clearly indicating to the donor what they have purchased but they also sent a detailed report on how the devices and instruments have really made a huge difference to the surgeons ability to operate safely on patients.