The Crisis Nobody Is Talking About

Russia has a strategy for this winter that has nothing to do with the battlefield. Instead they focus on destroying Ukraine's food supply chains. Cut electrical power for weeks at a time. Turn off the heat. Make life so miserable that Ukrainians surrender

. It is already starting.

Ukraine's Grocery Stores Are Already Rationing Food

Love Sent currently serves three to four thousand people every month in Ukraine. That number will rise sharply as winter approaches and conditions worsen.

We are raising $60,000 by October 15 to stock our warehouses before the cold hits — so we can respond immediately when people need help rather than scrambling to find supplies after the crisis arrives.

Thermal underwear and arctic sleeping bags for the elderly first. Then others as supplies allow. Emergency food. Critical supplies positioned for rapid response.

$ 40 — 4 sets of thermal underwear

$ 45 — Arctic style sleeping bag

$1,000 — emergency food supplies for multiple families for one month

$5,000 — significantly stocks our warehouse for rapid emergency response

$60,000 — fully funds our winter emergency capacity before October 15

She survived communism, economic collapse,

and now 4 years of war.

I Was Serving Food in Kharkov When I Saw Her.

We had set up our food truck in a neighborhood that looked like no one should still be living there. Holes in the apartment buildings. Windows covered with whatever could be found. But people came out anyway because they were hungry and we were there.

Then I saw her.

She came out of the entrance of a tall apartment building slowly — so slowly that at first I wasn't sure what I was seeing. It almost looked like a bear making its way across the courtyard. Then I saw the walking stick.

I think she was wearing every piece of clothing she owned. The last piece was a big black coat that had seen too many winters.

She had no heat. She very little food. She had survived long enough to be old and this was what she had survived for — to shuffle through the cold toward a truck run by strangers, in a city being bombed by people who didn't know her name.

We fed her.

This winter will be worse than the one where I met her. The food supply chains have been destroyed. Power will be cut for weeks at a time. She is still there.

So are we.

With your help we can help her through this winter.