Friends,It’s been over a year since Russia invaded Ukraine. During this time White Stork has continued to deliver critical aid across the frontlines. We have much to update you on, but before we get into it, we want to provide you the bottom line up...
Operation White Stork
Esquire: Ukraine’s Secret Weapons: Dispatches from Volunteers and Foreign Fighters
by Matt Gallagher A journey through the strange, semiprofessional world of volunteers and foreign fighters who, one year into Russia’s invasion, are risking everything to defeat the invaders. The air-raid siren sounded again through the defiant city, but William...
White Stork Winter Campaign
Friends and colleagues, The White Stork team recently completed our largest delivery to date in Ukraine where we also conducted a needs assessment for our winter campaign. Three teams embarked on separate missions: Grace Kim, our head of strategy, along with Doug...
PRESS RELEASE: SEKO Logistics Partners With White Stork In Ukraine
Since February 2022, SEKO Logistics (SEKO), a leading global logistics provider, has donated and provided more than $300,000 in goods and services to support those impacted by the conflict in Ukraine. This initiative has been aided by SEKO’s partnership with the...
Report from Mykolaiv
Our team returned from Mykolaiv a few days ago where we distributed 50 field medic backpacks to several brigades fighting along the frontlines. To the east, 25,000 Russians were amassing, preparing to assault through the city toward their main objective, Odesa. The...
Two IFAK training videos in Ukrainian posted
In partnership with the Emergency Project, White Stork created two IFAK training videos to educate our partners how to use the various components found inside IFAKs and field medic backpacks. White Stork also provides in-person instruction to our partners as our...
Daily Repatriation Numbers Climbing
It’s been a few months since White Stork was asked by the Ukraine government to use the logistical process we created to get civilians out of Ukraine, to getting those who wish to return back in. In that time we’ve repatriated almost 1700 as of this moment (August...
Max Cormier promoted to Deputy Head of Operations
Cormier, a former Captain and Army Airborne Infantry Officer, has been promoted to Deputy of Operations for White Stork. He earned this through his incredible work ethic and his proven ability to work through any problem. Congrats Max!
Thousands of miles driven in Ukraine delivering IFAKS to front-line soldiers
In June alone, members of White Stork drove their vans over 2000 miles meeting with different military units and delivering life saving IFAKS. It’s not possible to ever know the exact number of lives these IFAKS have saved but estimates are in the hundreds. August...
Boston Globe: Former US Marine from Somerville among volunteers helping Ukrainian refugees and military
By Rose Pecci Operation White Stork evacuates citizens, provides medical supplies for soldiers Seán Horgan, a former US Marine, purchased 2,000 ziploc bags from his local Ocean State Job Lot and left his Somerville home on April 7 to go to Poland, where he, along with...