A volunteer effort from the Wicklow hills. We buy and personally drive off-road vehicles to Ukraine to be used as frontline ambulances, carry humanitarian aid directly to those who need it, and hand-weave the camouflage nets that hide and protect the people underneath them. It is a shared struggle, and one anyone can help with.
Everything we do points the same way: getting real help, in person, to the people in Ukraine who need it.
We buy off-road vehicles in Ireland and drive them across Europe to Ukraine, to be used as frontline ambulances and to carry aid. Petya's Run goes from Dublin to Lviv.
Medical supplies and humanitarian aid loaded into every vehicle and delivered directly to vetted recipients, with no middleman and every cost accounted for.
Petya's Spiders hand-weave camouflage nets that break up shapes and hide people, vehicles and positions. Simple, cheap, and always in demand. We need donated bedsheets to make them.
Petya is our mascot and our namesake: a little bear knitted in Ukrainian blue and yellow, made by hand like everything we send.
Petya travels every mile with us, from a first pint on the ferry to the streets of Lviv, and stands for the handmade, human effort behind the whole battalion.
A small group from Co. Wicklow doing what ordinary people can: raising money, driving vehicles, and weaving nets for the people holding the line.
We work in two ways. Petya's Run buys and drives off-road vehicles to Ukraine to be used as ambulances, and Petya's Spiders weave camouflage nets from donated sheets. We do it alongside Drive to Save Lives (D2SL) and other volunteer groups in a wider, decentralised civilian effort.
Everything is delivered directly and documented. We cover our own food and lodging, so what you give goes to the mission, not to us.
Money, materials or time, it all gets there. Pick whatever suits you.
Fund the next vehicle, its fuel, the crossing and the aid it carries.
Have your name or a message written on the body of a vehicle bound for Ukraine.
Cotton sheets in beige, tan, green, brown, black or white become camouflage nets.
Want to help with the nets or along the way? Get in touch.
Questions, press, in-kind donations, or a hand along the way, we'd like to hear from you. Follow the work and share it onward.
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