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DOMINIC SANDBROOK: Russian invaders have pushed Ukraine to the verge of famine, shelling farms food warehouses, grain silos, shopping centres and supermarkets, and even stealing tractors.
Staring into smartphones, but with nothing to eat, desperately hungry Ukrainian children cower in a bomb shelter waiting for food from Mail Force food parcels to arrive.
The Mail Force appeal has now funded over 500,000 food parcels which are starting to make their way from Leicester to Luhansk with 12,000 calories in each parcel.
Looming over potato fields, the hulking outline of the Polish warehouse comes into view. It is just after dawn, and 63 hours since Mail Force's mission set off carrying humanitarian cargo.
VADYM PRYSTAIKO: The 500,000 food boxes you have supplied will go to people most in need in the midst of the greatest European catastrophe in our living memory.