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Ukraine Train and Equip
Why Ukraine?
Approximately 43,000 Ukrainian soldiers have died since the Russian invasion on 24 February 2022. Uncontrolled bleeding is the leading cause of death from potentially survivable injuries among Ukrainian soldiers, accounting for over 60% of battlefield fatalities.Timely haemorrhage control and medical intervention significantly reduces mortality rates.Further reductions in preventable deaths require expanded pre-hospital training and improved trauma care supplies.
TRAIN AND EQUIP
About Train & Equip
The UKR Train & Equip Project is preparing for it's seventh mission to Ukraine, combining life-saving medical support with compassionate humanitarian outreach.
The Project is a humanitarian aid initiative conducted by members of the Order of St. George to provide pre-hospital trauma care (PHTC) training, related medical equipment and other humanitarian aid to civilians and frontline personnel in some of the most affected areas of the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.
The Project aims to enhance Ukraine’s capability to conduct immediate lifesaving activity, casualty stabilisation and packaging, medical evacuation and ultimately, the setting of conditions for long-term recovery of personnel seriously injured by conflict. This activity is not limited to the provision of PHTC training and equipment to soldiers; all first responders fall within the Project’s scope of aid provision.
The aid delivered to Ukraine included medical and non-medical components
Ours is a Humanitarian Mission
The Ukraine Train and Equip Project is a humanitarian aid initiative focused on pre-hospital trauma care and trauma response, operating in a conflict zone. It serves both military and civilian first responders, equipping them with non-lethal, life-saving tools and training.
While it functions within the context of armed conflict, its intent and execution reflect humanitarian principles—especially the preservation of life, impartiality in aid delivery, and the avoidance of offensive support.
PHTC Training
At this stage of the conflict, Ukrainian soldiers and most first responder organisations receive a recognised standard of medical training that is aligned with TCCC guidelines. The level of in-role competence and operational experience found in top-tier military and urban search and rescue organisations is exceptionally high. However, the scale and duration of the conflict have resulted in vast numbers of conscripted soldiers and volunteer community support organisations that are poorly trained and equipped. It is at this level that the Train and Equip Project has the most significant effect.
The Project’s training objective is to complement, reinforce and enhance our recipients’ current training standards (rather than to attempt to impose new PHTC protocols). Specifically, the Project aims to introduce the training recipients to the donated PHTC equipment and to ensure that the recipients understand when and how to incorporate this equipment into their own PHTC protocols. The training sessions are an opportunity to refresh learning, enhance first responder confidence and to introduce developing PHTC best practice with the full engagement and consent of their own medical chains of command.
The team delivered hands-on training, ensuring that local responders not only received supplies but also understood how to use them effectively under pressure. All training is aligned to international clinical guidelines.
Who are the recipients?
Conscripted Soldiers: Over 370,000 Ukrainian soldiers have suffered severe life-threatening injuries since the Russian invasion on February 24, 2022.
Civilian First Responders: A further (documented) 29,018 civilian injuries from explosive weapons up to June 26, 2025.
Vulnerable Children: Children in conflict-related distress, displaced children and war orphans. The Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, has had a profound impact on Ukrainian children, leading to widespread displacement, psychological distress, and orphanhood.
Displaced Children: By the end of 2022, over 3 million Ukrainian children had been displaced due to the war:
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Approximately 2 million fled the country as refugees.
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Over 1 million were internally displaced within Ukraine.
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This displacement represents one of the fastest large-scale movements of children since World War II.
Conflict-Related Psychological Distress:
The war has severely affected the mental health of Ukrainian children:
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An estimated 1.5 million children are at risk of depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and other mental health issues.
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Studies indicate that 57% of children aged 7–17 and 45% of those aged 3–6 experienced trauma exposure during the first year of the war.
War Orphans: The conflict has resulted in a significant number of children losing their parents.
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As of early 2024, nearly 1,800 Ukrainian children had become orphans due to the war.
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Additionally, approximately 40,000 children have lost at least one parent.
Abductions and Forced Transfers: There have been reports of Ukrainian children being forcibly taken to Russia or Russian-occupied territories:
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Over 19,000 cases of child abductions have been confirmed, with many more suspected.
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These children often face forced assimilation, including being re-registered as Russian citizens and placed in state adoption networks.
The ongoing conflict continues to pose severe risks to the well-being and future of Ukrainian children, underscoring the urgent need for comprehensive humanitarian and psychological support.
Project Team and Partners
“This mission reflects the heart of our Order’s calling,” said Stuart Notholt, Grand Prior of the UK Grand Priory. “It’s about standing with those in need—not only with supplies and training but with humanity and hope.”
As the Order approaches its 700th anniversary in 2026, the UKR Train & Equip Project stands as a living expression of the Order’s founding values: honour in service, compassion in action, and unwavering commitment to those most vulnerable.
Order of St. George (OStG)
The Teddy Trust is a small Herefordshire-based charity, run entirely by volunteers, that reaches out to help children across the world who have experienced the horrors of war, are living in extreme poverty or have suffered horrendous abuse.
In the past five years, we have sent teddy bears to projects in over 15 countries on 3 continents, including South Africa, Syria, Turkey, the Greek Islands, Iraq and Ukraine. We have also responded to special requests for help following natural disasters in Nepal, Nicaragua, Fiji and Malawi.
Teddy bears have been distributed to children in refugee camps, schools, orphanages, projects for homeless children, attending feeding schemes, in refuges for women and children who are victims of domestic abuse, in hospitals and clinics and in centres treating children who have been subjected to sexual violence.
The Teddy Trust accepts donations of any friendly, cuddly, soft teddy bears that can bring comfort to a child in distress.
We send thousands of teddy bears every year to children in distress around the world. In the years we have been operating, we’ve sent teddy bears to Syria, Kurdistan, Malawi, Turkey, South Africa, Fiji and Harare in Zimbabwe.
The Teddy Trust
Traumamed Solutions has assembled an expert team that has the knowledge, skill and credibility within civilian emergency medicine and military environments, enabling them to offer the correct solution to the customer.
Not only are they a pre-eminent supplier of PHTC equipment,
Traumamed Solutions
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Donation notes: The best way to donate is via direct bank transfer (no fees) or via a Charities Aid Foundation donation (allows for Gift Aid if you’re a UK taxpayer). Next best is our GoFundMe campaign (incurs a small processing fee).
The Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) enables individuals and businesses to donate to charities in a tax-efficient manner, manage their giving through donor-advised funds, and support specific charitable causes. Additionally, CAF claims Gift Aid (25% top-up for UK taxpayers) on eligible donations automatically.
Direct bank transfers incur no fees, so the full donation amount of your donation will go towards the charitable purpose (unless your bank applies a transfer fee, which is rare domestically).
The OStG Charity Bank Account Details are as follows:
OStG charity bank account name:
The United Kingdom Grand Priory Of The International Knightly Order Valiant.
Payment Reference:
UKR Train and Equip
Sort Code:20-24-61
Account Number:
33264742
SWIFT/BIC:
BUKBGB22
IBAN:
GB91 BUKB 2024 6133 2647 42Our GoFundMe Campaign can be found here:
https://gofund.me/8024073a
Our Receiving Charity: The Order of St. George (OStG) has kindly agreed to act as our receiving charity, thereby providing the Ukraine: Train and Equip Project with external financial governance and auditable oversight.
Please note: Some automated bank anti-fraud checks may tell you that the OStG bank account name does not match the charity’s account details. Please ignore this warning; if you have used the correct Sort Code & Account Number, we will receive payment.Please make your cheque payable to ‘UK Grand Priory of St. George’
Please ensure that you write “UKR Train and Equip” on the reverse.
Send your cheque to:Chevalier Steven Turner GCStG, Grand Treasurer
BM Box ‘Order of St. George’
London, WC1N 3XX
United Kingdom
FAQ
The Order of St. George is a humanitarian charity registered with the United Kingdom Charity Commission (No. 137397). It is also a United Nations recognised Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) with Special Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic & Social Council since 2015. Their mission is to promote human rights and provide aid.
The "UKR Train & Equip Project" is a specific humanitarian aid initiative delegated and authorised by the Order of St. George to provide pre-hospital trauma care (PHTC) training and related medical equipment in support of Ukraine. This is evidenced by the schedule and budget documents referencing a trip to Ukraine for training and equipment handover.
The core members of the team are the founders (Rupert Granville and Tim Simpson), and the fundraising lead was Richard Yates. The operational deployment team for Trip 6 were Rupert Granville, Adam Chapman, Jake Wood, Dane Halling and Myles Lant.
The team stopped in Rivne, Brody, Kyiv, Uman, Ternopil, and Lviv. The handover of teddy bears to children in the towns of Brody and Uman.
The procurement list indicates a focus on medical and non-medical equipment. The medical equipment includes items typically found in combat-oriented individual first aid kits (IFAKs) as set out in NATO AMedP-8.7 (STANAG 2126) and aligned to guidance set out by the Committee on Tactical Combat Casualty Care (CoTCCC). Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) is a set of evidence-based guidelines and training protocols for trauma life support specifically designed for use in prehospital combat environments.
Items delivered by the Train and Equip Project address the two major causes of potentially survivable combat-related death on the battlefield, which are catastrophic bleeding (80-90% of potentially survivable deaths) and compromised airways and breathing (8% of potentially survivable deaths). These items include tourniquets (Tourni-Keys), compression bandages and haemostatic gauze (Celox Rapid Z-Fold), NPAs (Nasopharyngeal Airways), and chest seals. Additional tools, such as trauma shears, allow for rapid primary survey to assist in the identification of wound sites. The procurement documents also mention the cost per IFAK.
Non-medical procurement includes tools used for casualty recovery and evacuation (Stihl MS 212 Chainsaws and assorted tools). Although not procured by the Train and Equip Project, they are involved in the personal distribution of donated teddy bears to children in conflict-related distress, displaced children and war orphans on behalf of the Teddy Trust. The teddy bears are donated by British children specifically for this purpose.
The Train and Equip Project is a humanitarian aid initiative. The Project aims to support immediate lifesaving, casualty stabilisation and packaging, medical evacuation and ultimately, the setting of conditions for long-term recovery of personnel seriously injured by conflict. This activity is not limited to the provision of PHTC training and equipment to soldiers; all first responders fall within the Project’s scope of aid provision.
At this stage of the conflict, Ukrainian soldiers and most first responder organisations receive a recognised standard of medical training that is aligned with TCCC guidelines. The level of in-role competence and operational experience found in top-tier military and urban search and rescue organisations is exceptionally high. However, the scale and duration of the conflict have resulted in vast numbers of conscripted soldiers and volunteer community support organisations that are poorly trained and equipped. It is at this level that the Train and Equip Project can have the most significant effect.
The Project’s training objective is to complement, reinforce and enhance our recipients’ current training standards (rather than to attempt to impose new PHTC protocols). Specifically, the Project aims to introduce the training recipients to the donated PHTC equipment and to ensure that the recipients understand when and how to incorporate this equipment into their own PHTC protocols. The training sessions are an opportunity to refresh learning, enhance first responder confidence and to introduce developing PHTC best practice with the full engagement and consent of their own medical chains of command.
The Order of St. George’s commitment to ethical behaviour is set out in a Code of Conduct explicitly written for all personnel involved in humanitarian aid on behalf of the Order.
The Order’s Code of Conduct sets out clear, non-negotiable standards of behaviour that all staff and volunteers must follow. Key elements include:
Respect for universal human rights, ensuring all individuals are treated with dignity, courtesy, and without discrimination based on race, colour, national origin, religion, age, sex, sexual preference, marital status, pregnancy, or physical disability.
Strict prohibition of exploitation, corruption, trafficking, and abuse, with violations resulting in immediate termination and referral to authorities. Adherence to both local and international laws, reinforcing legal accountability and awareness of the consequences of misconduct.
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