Leleka Foundation
@leleka.care
We help frontline medical professionals save lives in Ukraine 🇺🇦 Допомагаємо медикам в Україні рятувати життя на передовій | https://leleka.care
The best thanks we can receive is a photo from our medics. These came from the medics of the 260th Separate Territorial Defense Brigade "Khortytsia." This time, we delivered 30 Leleka backpacks and tactical medicine supplies worth almost $18,000, everything they asked for. #Leleka #FrontlineMedic
On Saturday, October 17, more than a dozen cooks brought their best borshch for the fifth annual Borshch Battle. This year, every entry donation went to Leleka. The 5th annual Borshch Battle raised $4,000+ for Leleka’s frontline medics. The winner: Mariupol Borshch. Thank you, DC #BorshchBattle
From Antarctica to Los Angeles 🇺🇦🎬 At Frames of Freedom, the 2nd LA Ukrainian Film Festival, our co-founder Svitlana Kostylova shared stories from Antarctica and raised funds for frontline medics. “Every trip, every event, every conversation is a chance to raise more.” Thank you, LA ❤️
Our co-founder Svitlana Kostyleva was in Kyiv. Watch her open one of the boxes heading to the frontline — the supplies that go into our medical backpacks. Nothing in it is by default. Every item is on the list because medics asked for it and told us what worked. #FrontlineMedics #Leleka
Another Leleka backpack has reached the front, fully equipped for soldiers of the 25th Separate Assault Regiment “Rys” (Lynx). In the first half of September alone, we delivered 170+ backpacks and tactical medical supplies worth about $155,000. Thank you for making this possible 💛💙 #FrontlineMedic
27,000 lifesaving items have arrived in Ukraine Two shipments (~$145K) of tourniquets, Ambu bags, cervical collars & more are already reaching frontline medics. Made possible by you. Help send the next one: leleka.care #StandWithUkraine
Borshch that helps save lives Borshch Night is back! Taste borshch from local cooks, crown the DMV’s best, and fund tourniquets and thermal blankets for Ukraine. 📅 Oct 17, 5pm 📍 401 Mass Ave NW, DC (rooftop) 💛 From $35 www.facebook.com/share/1bYeZd... #Leleka #Borshch
Leleka is proud to support “Flowers Beyond the Dark” again 🎬🇺🇦 Filmed in 2022 after the Kyiv region’s liberation: testimony from Bucha, Kyiv & the 72nd Brigade. 📅 Oct 18, Ukrainian Culture Center, LA Tell the truth. Bring a friend. #StandWithUkraine
At Leleka, reporting isn’t a formality. You trust us with your support, and you deserve to see exactly what it became. So every month, we show you. In August, $216,222 worth of tactical medical supplies reached frontline medics in Ukraine. That’s more than 25,000 items. #Leleka #FrontlineMedics
🐧 From Antarctica to the front line. See Antarctica at the Ukrainian Film Festival in LA, Oct 17, 3 PM. Then visit the Leleka stand for postcards signed by Vernadsky station scientists and a one-of-a-kind backpack from Antarctica. Every purchase helps save lives 💙💛 #Leleka #UkrainianFilmFestivalLA
Leleka is proud to partner with the 2nd Ukrainian Film Festival in LA! Beyond supplying frontline medics, we want the world to see Ukraine through its stories, culture, and resilience. 📅 Oct 17–18 | Ukrainian Culture Center, LA If you're in LA, join us: waylight.me/ukrainiancul...
Russia attacked Ukraine again overnight. At least 19 people were killed and 58+ injured. In Pryluky alone, 13 people were killed, including 4 children, and 50+ injured. Families were asleep in their homes when the attack came. 🕯️ Eternal memory. Stand with Ukraine.
Our President, Vadim Geshel, made 6 kg of cheese from his mom's recipe and spent a Sunday frying syrnyky for a San Francisco café pre-opening. Vadim makes the best syrnyky in the Bay Area, and anyone who has visited him knows it. 60 portions. $1,000 for frontline medics in Ukraine.
Today is October 1 — the Day of Defenders of Ukraine. Thank you to everyone holding the line since 2014. To the ones who went to defend it and never came out. And to the medics who run toward the sound everyone else runs from, and hold a life in place until the next hands come. Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦
"They are the ones who should be standing here. They can't. They're working." Leleka Foundation has received the Certificate of Merit of the Order of Saint Panteleimon — Ukraine's highest civil award in healthcare — for humanitarian service. The award belongs to the medics. #FrontlineMedics
Another packed backpack, another pair of hands we trust. This one went to Olha, who runs the medical post of the 31st Brigade of Ukraine's National Guard. In her hands it doesn't stay in her hands — it gets checked, assigned, and sent forward with her medics. #FrontlineMedic #NotesFromTheFront
Our Ukrainian team has been named to Focus magazine’s Top 100 Most Influential Ukrainians — 5th in the “Volunteers” category. In 2026, Leleka delivers $170,000–$210,000 in medical supplies to the front every month. Total aid since the full-scale invasion has now passed $16 million.
8,000 pieces of tactical medical equipment: tourniquets, hypothermia blankets, chest seals, pulse oximeters, drag stretchers. More than $26,000 from @novaukraine.org — already out of our Kyiv warehouse and in the hands of medics on the front. #NovaUkraine #LelekaFoundation
Notes from the Front 💛 These photos came from medics of the 54th Separate Mechanized Brigade, named after Hetman Ivan Mazepa. A Leleka backpack, drag stretchers, and tactical medical supplies are now in their hands on the Donetsk front, where fighting has not let up for months. #FrontlineMedic
July 2026: what reached the front. $196,563 in tactical medical supplies for frontline medics in Ukraine: 330 backpacks, 2,162 tourniquets, 519 stretchers, 2,025 chest seals & 17,796 other devices. Every item goes where it’s needed most. Keep supplies moving: leleka.care/en/donate #FrontlineMedics
On 11 September, CU Theater — Ireland’s first Ukrainian theatre — presented readings of two Ukrainian plays at Trinity College Dublin: The Woman with the Fridge by Marta Shyiko and Victoria’s Little Secrets by Alina Sarnatska. 65 people attended, and €650 was raised for Leleka and frontline medics.
Take a closer look at what’s inside a combat medic’s bag. 💛 No standard kit exists — every medic builds their own. But this is the base our Ukrainian team packs by hand in Kyiv: tools to stop bleeding, stabilize the wounded, and buy the minutes that save a life.
The reports we value most come from our medics. This photo is from Olha, a senior frontline medic, with a fully equipped Leleka backpack. Inside is everything she needs to treat the wounded in a critical moment — packed by our Ukrainian team and now where it belongs. #FrontlineMedic
You usually see our drag stretchers finished, in photos from the front. This time, our Ukrainian team visited the production and filmed the process. From there, the stretchers go to our Kyiv office and then, on request, to frontline medics who rely on them when every second counts.
The smallest thing in a medic’s bag might save a limb. Every month, our Ukrainian team procures universal splints — one for every frontline medic’s backpack we equip. When a fracture happens under fire, this is what a medic reaches for. Small enough to forget, vital enough to change an outcome.
Ukrainian drama comes to Dublin. Graduates Memorial Building, Trinity College Friday 11 September, 18:15 VICTORIA'S LITTLE SECRETS by Alina Sarnatska THE WOMAN WITH THE FRIDGE by Marta Shyiko All proceeds go to the Leleka 🎟 €10 www.eventbrite.ie/e/modern-ukr... #Dublin#UkrainianTheatre #Leleka
⏳ Two days left. 🇺🇦 The flag signed by Lt. Gen. Kyrylo Budanov is still in play — bidding closes September 2. Claim a rare piece of Ukraine's 35th Independence Day, and send its full value to the medics on the front line. Bid or share 👇 givebutter.com/c/celebrate-...
Meet Victoria Talkington — one of Leleka’s steadfast donors. A Ukrainian flag hangs in her home, signed by frontline medics — an unexpected gift that made her cry. She came to Ukraine not through heritage, but conviction: the invasion was wrong, and she could help. Thank you, Victoria. 💙💛
35 years of Ukrainian independence. 🇺🇦 Our auction is LIVE — headlined by a flag signed by Lt. Gen. Kyrylo Budanov. Every bid funds the medics defending that independence. Bid 👇 givebutter.com/c/celebrate-...
