Our effort to help Ukraine by delivering combat medical supplies

Samantha Lewis
4 min readApr 28, 2022

How Amazon, a lot of United Airlines miles, and donated suitcases helped the Ukrainian war effort.

Photo by Karollyne Hubert on Unsplash

To start, we’d like to say that we will be forever grateful to every person who supported our first Ukrainian supply run. We delivered over 600lbs of emergency medical and tactical supplies worth over $35k to 6 Ukrainian battalions and regiments in various areas, including Lviv, Kharkiv, Donetsk, Dnipro, and Zaporizhzhia. These items were delivered to Ukrainian defenders just as the second Russian offensive began.

The high impact of the supplies and the gratitude from Ukrainians shows us that even eight suitcases can make a big difference and that there is so much more we can do. The supplies are extremely valuable to the front lines due to their limited availability and served as a morale boost to Ukrainian defenders on the ground. As the war rages on and Ukrainians continue to fight for their freedom, we plan to continue our efforts to help.

See below for details on how you can help, photos of the supplies with Ukrainian defenders, and links to our social pages with more pictures.

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Samantha Lewis

Venture Capitalist at Mercury. Blockchain and fintech will solve our world’s biggest challenges. Opinions are my own.