This year's last outing with material aid.
Christmas is for everyone a holiday of calm, peace and gathering with friends and family.
It's no different for us, however, our friends are thousands of kilometers away and fighting evil. And thanks to that, we can sit down for dinner in peace.
So, on the evening of the 24th, several of our members are packing their bags and checking the material without which it is not advisable to move around UA. They prepare documents for borders, transfer documents. In the dead of night from the 24th to the 25th, they set off from various places in the Czech Republic to meet at the team's warehouse at 7 in the morning. Here they load the vehicle and check what is needed. They meet the chancellor, who has brought them a few little things. This time, within the framework of time and family obligations, the T4U team consisting of "Rošťák", "Barťák" and "Shalom" could go out.
The axis leads through Olomouc, where they will meet our doctor. They will take over a mobile ultrasound from him, which can be connected to a mobile phone. A key part of this delivery. We got it from the donor on 22.12. afternoon. Then to Frýdlant, for winter, insulated boots, and to Slovakia, where they are loading 30 pieces of collapsible trench stones with people from the initiative Aktually for Ukraine. Then back to Poland and the already familiar route to Kupjansk. To our 41st separate mech. brigade. We have been supporting this brigade since the beginning of this year, and since the summer also together with Gift for Putin and Memory of the Nation, as a joint project.
The guys are driving there non-stop, they are already like that, every minute when the material is already in the hands of our soldiers counts. The team arrives in Kharkiv after 29 hours and approx. 2,100 km. In Kharkov, a member of the SBI/DBR, who supervises the assistance of the AFU/ZSU, meets with the boys. It's about getting to know each other quickly, passing on contacts. However, the situation is tense in the OA Kupjansk area, with wave after wave of orcs pushing.
The boys learn that a vehicle from the village will accompany them halfway to the place where they will meet the members of the 41st. It's not that they can get lost, they know the way. But it is about their safety and quick passage through the checkpoint.
At the checkpoint, the boys meet with the escort, a quick handshake, determining the axis of movement and getting dressed for ballistics (after all, no one goes here except soldiers and the Russian Lancets will fly this far). The last section is driven in the dark, the team passes various military vehicles and checkpoints. After a while, the escort changes, they meet an acquaintance from the 41st Brigade. The team moves to the main brigade command post. The team descends from Vidma to the sounds of heavy artillery fire, luckily Ukrainian. The sky is clear, the stars are shining and the only thing that disturbs them are the Ukrainian rockets that fly towards the attacking orcs.
The team meets with the chief of staff, he apologizes, the others are doing other tasks and he himself is busy, but he likes to have a quick coffee with his Czech friends. Before signing the papers and drinking some excellent coffee, the boys witness the liquidation of one of the many Russian attacks by artillery fire. The drone transmits a picture of an attack of 30+ orcs in the forest. It only takes a few minutes and the forest is empty. In this attack it was one-sided, losses only on the side of the orcs, it was neither the first nor the last attack today. Unfortunately, the effectiveness is dependent on the number of ammunition, the availability of drones, batteries and other means of observation. For the rest of the quick coffee, the guys deal with the handover documentation for the material, talk about the nearest deliveries and what we should focus on. The team gets to know the new AEROROZVIDKA commander of this brigade, greets others, such as the logistics commander, and Natalie, the brigade's head of medical security.
Then it is off to unload. This time we explain everything in one place. Vehicles are already waiting there for material that belongs elsewhere. We unload several boxes of thermal underwear, other boxes of socks, winter clothes, over 100 pairs of insulated boots and winter boots. We also delivered a huge television for AEROROZVIDKA, an equipped medical backpack, 4 units of an electrocentral unit, the aforementioned ultrasound with gels, heating blankets and thermal foils for the wounded, 10 folding stretchers, sleeping bags, several boxes of consumable medical supplies and trench stones. All under the lights of headlamps, preferably under red or blue light, so that the traffic does not attract enemy attack drones.
Once the car is empty, the boys say goodbye to everyone. It is fast. We thank them for fighting, they for helping us. The boys promise that more help will arrive as soon as possible. The answer is not only to thank them, but also to know that we will not leave them alone. After all, we are there almost every month. Sometimes several times a month.
After that it was time to go home. Along the way, the team stops for dinner in Kharkiv, at the end of which sirens start blaring and the city is plunged into darkness during shelling. The boys continue to Poltava, where they spend the night. From there the road leads to Lviv and then home through Poland. The last to arrive home is "Rošťák" on 28.12. shortly before midnight. Unfortunately, the awakening on the 29th is accompanied by information about the biggest missile attack on Ukrainian cities this winter. Instead of resting and feeling satisfied for the work done, the team rushes into the next job.
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