Hampshire charity calls for more aid as Ukraine sees highest number of attacks since start of war
'New Forest for Ukraine' have been sending aid out to the country for more than three years now
A Hampshire charity is calling for more aid as they say Ukraine has reached the highest amount of attacks since the beginning of the war.
'New Forest for Ukraine' has been sending aid to Ukraine for over three years and since the beginning of the war.
The charity say they're hearing missile and drone attacks have reached the highest levels since the beginning of the war.
Sandra Quinn, Volunteer Co-ordinator for New Forest for Ukraine, said: "The need is constant.
"Every time there are these attacks, literally every night, peoples' homes are being bombed, blocks of flats are basically pancaking down to nothing.
"People are losing their windows, their front doors, very often everything they own, and everything that keeps them safe.
"It's putting people in the position of either becoming homeless and needing to try and find some other kind of shelter, or they've actually got a destroyed home where they have no choice but to stay there in the rubble.
"They may need tools, food, clothing, everything to just try and stay there and begin to try and put something back together until there is the next wave of attacks." The group send aid that ranges from toiletries and medical supplies to generators.
Ms Quinn told us why she feels it's important to keep sending aid.
She said: "There's a big substantive reason, which is the things like food supplies, first aid, toiletries, hygiene, even clean sets of clothes and clean sets of bedding; which are all incredibly incredibly important.
"There are people who have nothing, absolutely nothing.
"You could go to a shelter at night and come back to everything in your life being destroyed and you've literally got anything you can carry in a carrier bag.
"Those people need everything in order to function the following day or the day after that or for the week.
"Then it's also very important for people in terms of morale.
"Somebody from Ukraine told me recently that we cannot possibly understand how good it feels to receive something whatever it is, and you know that somebody cares.
"They said if you've just lived through your night of bombing, you'll come out the following morning, if you're lucky enough to be in one piece, feeling like nobody cares about you, the world has forgotten you.
"Then you're given something like a bar of soap, a tin of soup, some hygiene stuff or shower gel, whatever it is, and you know someone cares."