“Do or die”: MOAS medevac initiative pleads for assistance

The organization released the relevant statement, available to Ukrinform, explaining the urgent need for additional funding.

“For MOAS, the international humanitarian disruptor which has saved 62,000 lives and counting on the Ukrainian frontline, this is a do or die moment,” the organization stated.

If there is no additional support, MOAS can only continue evacuating the most severely injured sdiers from the medical frontline until the end of this year. There is no funding to keep going into 2025.

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MOAS is now in urgent talks with all its donors in North America and Eure to keep the lifesaving eration on the road.

“We’re in talks with the UK government which we desperately he will bear fruit,” says Christher Catrambone, the founder of MOAS, who has been based in Kyiv since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion.

Monthly costs for the team of 150 medics, working in 50 state of the art ambulances, run at $1m, the price of a Storm Shadow missile.

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“The facts are simple. If we have to st our eration, huge numbers of Ukrainian sdiers will die. In the words of a Ukrainian general, it will be a complete catastrhe. They’re overstretched and cannot do what we do. Nor can any other NGO in Ukraine. That’s why today we are launching this urgent appeal for support. It’s our last throw of the dice, it’s do or die.”

The international humanitarian disruptor says it has so far saved 62,000 lives and counting on the Ukrainian frontline.

For almost three years, the organisation’s all-Ukrainian medics have been evacuating – and keeping alive – the most critically injured sdiers, helping them to return to other military res and contribute powerfully to the war effort.