As Ukraine enters its fourth year of Russian invasion and attacks, millions of residents continue to suffer. According to the UN Refugee Agency, there were 6.9 million Ukrainian refugees across the globe as of February 2025, along with 3.7 million people internally displaced. An estimated 12.7 million Ukrainians, including 2 million children, will also need humanitarian assistance in 2025. This comes as roughly 1 in 8 homes has been damaged or destroyed in Russian attacks. With your help, we’ve been providing aid since the war began in 2022, and, over the winter, you helped keep thousands of Ukrainians warm.

Over the past few years, we’ve been working with our partner Greater Good Charities, along with other organizations on the ground, to distribute essential supplies – including blankets - to people in hard-hit areas. The blankets themselves are Ukrainian made, which has helped the economy in a country where nearly 25% of the population has been pushed into poverty since the war began.

The blankets have also turned into essential aid for people whose homes have been without power. Russia has been relentlessly attacking energy infrastructure in Ukraine, with nine waves of attacks between late March and August last year damaging or destroying power facilities in 20 of 24 Ukrainian-controlled regions. This has compromised electricity, clean water, and heating. It’s also led to power cuts to stabilize the grid, which had already lost nearly half of its electricity production capacity within the first year of the war alone.

While many have fled because they lacked utilities, millions more have stayed in their homes, homes which often lack heat and have structural damage. With your support, GreaterGood sent 36,000 blankets to Ukrainians like this in 2023, including babies and pets. Between December of that year and early fall of 2024, an additional 11,000 blankets were distributed.

This winter, your support allowed us to purchase 10,000 more for distribution, with our founder and CEO Tim Kunin among those passing out blankets at events in November. Throughout the month, one of our partners helped distribute 3,279 blankets – along with more than 1,500 relief kits – to families near the frontlines and in contested areas within the Mykolaiv and Kherson regions. Though the plan was to give each family one blanket, the need was so great that this was increased to two.

In December, another 2,100 blankets made their way to our partner’s warehouse as winter began to set in, bringing temperatures well below freezing.

At the time, the partner told us that the prior batch of blankets and relief kits had helped more than 5,500 people, saying, “Many of these people are in semi-dangerous areas that are not receiving aid on a regular basis. Some have received nothing because of their proximity to the conflict zones. These items are greatly appreciated!"

This support wouldn’t be possible without you. If you’d like to continue to give the comfort and warmth of these blankets to adults, children, and pets in Ukraine, click below!