Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues to be met with widespread condemnation from world leaders, celebrities, athletes, entertainers and even Russian citizens, who have joined the global protest against Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to launch a deadly war that has forced hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians to flee the country.
A Ukrainian girl picks out a toy from a pile of donated items at the Medyka border crossing in Poland on Saturday. (Bernat Armangue/AP)
There are other ways to show solidarity with Ukraine. Here is a list of organizations to which you can donate to help people affected by the crisis.
• The International Red Cross
The Ukrainian chapter of the International Red Cross has dispatched teams to metro stations and bomb shelters to distribute food and provide first aid, as well as provide support to at-risk families who have chosen to stay.
The nonprofit is responding to the crisis by providing Ukrainians in need with food and hygiene kits. The group’s immediate crisis response is aiming to reach 4 million Ukrainians.
The U.N. Children’s Fund in Ukraine is providing support for the country’s 7.5 million children threatened by the escalating conflict. The agency is currently ramping up its efforts to meet critical needs for safe drinking water, health care and education.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees is the official agency of the U.N. whose mission it is to aid and protect refugees. According to the U.N., more than 500,000 Ukrainians have fled the country since Russia’s attack began last week.
Refugees at the Lviv railway station wait for trains to Poland on Sunday. (Pavlo Palamarchuk/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
A Ukrainian child looks through the window of a car stuck in traffic as her family drives toward the Medyka-Shehyni border crossing between Ukraine and Poland on Monday. (Daniel Leal/AFP via Getty Images)
A woman and her daughter fleeing the Russian invasion in Ukraine, at the border crossing in Medyka, Poland, on Sunday. (Bryan Woolston/Reuters)
A mother tends to her baby, who is under medical treatment, in the bomb shelter of the paediatric ward of a hospital in Kyiv on Sunday. (Chris McGrath/Getty Images)
Ukrainian refugees alongside vehicles lined up to cross the border from Ukraine into Moldova, on Saturday. (Sergei Grits/AP)
A woman at the border checkpoint in Medyka, Poland, on Monday. (Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters)
An employee of an emergency rescue service in Romania hands out bags of food to refugees on Sunday. (Andreea Alexandru/AP)
Supplies for refugees fleeing the Russian invasion in Ukraine are slightly covered in snow at the border checkpoint in Medyka, Poland, on Monday. (Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters)
A crying woman walking with her children at the border crossing in Siret, Romania, on Monday. (Stoyan Nenov/Reuters)
A mother feeds her child after they fled Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and rest at a refugee shelter in Beregsurany, Hungary, February 28, 2022. (Bernadett Szabo/Reuters)
A Ukrainian family waits for a train inside Lviv railway station, Sunday, Feb. 27, 2022, in Lviv, west Ukraine. (Bernat Armangue/AP)
Children patients whose treatments are underway stay in their beds moved to the hallways of the basement floor of Okhmadet Children’s Hospital, as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues, in Kyiv, Ukraine February 28, 2022. (Umit Bektas/Reuters)
A woman walks with her dogs after arriving from Ukraine, crossing the border in Beregsurany, Hungary, Saturday, Feb 26, 2022. (Anna Szilagyi/AP)
Ukrainian asylum seekers rest on the floor at the train station in Przemysl, Poland on Feb. 27, 2022. (Attila Husejnow/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
A women holds a child and a dog in a shelter inside a building in Mariupol, Ukraine, Sunday, Feb. 27, 2022. (Evgeniy Maloletka/AP)
Volunteers are unloading aid donations inside a school gym which were send by people from all over the country to help refugees from Ukraine while ongoing Russian-Ukrainian war crisis in Kroscienko, Poland on February 27, 2022. (Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
A Ukrainian woman reacts after arriving at the Medyka border crossing, in Poland, Sunday, Feb. 27, 2022. (Visar Kryeziu/AP)
Refugees from Ukraine rest after arriving to the railway station in Przemysl, Poland, Sunday, Feb. 27, 2022. (Czarek Sokolowski/AP)
A woman who arrived in Poland from Ukraine, carries a bag and a stuffed toy in Przemysl, Poland February 27, 2022. (Kuba Stezycki/Reuters)
Refugees fleeing conflict in neighboring Ukraine arrive to Przemysl, Poland, Saturday, Feb. 26, 2022. (Petr David Josek/AP)
People take part in an anti-war protest, after Russia launched a massive military operation against Ukraine, in Lisbon, Portugal, February 27, 2022. (Pedro Nunes/Reuters)
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