The aid convoy with donations for the people in Ukraine, which started from Weimar on Thursday, 3 March 2022, arrived in the border area in the early morning.
Students, alumni and staff of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar are still part of the convoy. They arrived with three vans - loaded with medicine, food and a mobile kitchen - near the Polish town of Medyka, not far from the Ukrainian border. At the time of departure from Weimar, contacts had already been established with refugees who had accepted the offer of transport out of the crisis area.
One transporter drove further north to pick up two families – five people in total. The two other vans stopped just before Medyka in Przemysl at a former shopping centre where aid deliveries and refugees arrive. Now the team is on its way to the train station to offer the remaining rides. More people will be picked up at an agreed meeting point in the afternoon. The convoy then sets off on its return journey towards Weimar.
The volunteers' plans had changed at short notice. The offer of a Ukrainian haulage company to provide a 20-tonne truck and the promise of the German National Theatre in Weimar to also provide a truck for the transport meant that the plans had to be adjusted. The Ukrainian transporter, also with a Ukrainian driver, drove directly to Ukraine. The DNT truck is on its way to the Romanian-Ukrainian border.
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