As of last week, the United Nations was estimating that 50% of Ukraine’s energy grid had been destroyed.
has unfolded, with many Ukrainians unable to heat or light their homes, the community’s focus has shifted to cold-weather aid.
“The minute it got colder and they realized that the war is not ending, and the power outages started, the gas began cutting out, people started sending out more sleeping bags, more blankets, more thermal wear,” said Stadnik, whose immigrant father has owned and operated the local Meest warehouse since the 1990s.Not far away in Silver Lake, in the basement of the Saint Andrew Ukrainian Orthodox Church, volunteers sorted through boxes of donations.
For now they’ve collected hand warmer packets, clothing and smaller items in the church’s storage area. Seva Mohylyak, who helped organize the group last spring, said there’s a critical need for generators and that they’ve tried to buy them in Europe to expedite the process, but these have become scarce.
Borislav Alexandrov , who with other volunteers has collected cold-weather supplies for Ukrainian soldiers, seals a box of items to be sent to the Ukraine at the Meest warehouse in Glendale. His son sits next to him playing games. Meanwhile Julia Stadnik’s father, Igor Stadnik, and longtime employee Roberto Ramirez wrestled with a large box containing two propane generators that would go to LAX with the other supplies that night.
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