Nate Mook
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Supporting Ukraine 🇺🇦 @AMarch4OurLives, @SaveUkraineUS, @RazomForUkraine, @TEDxMidAtlantic Past: @WCKitchen
DC, Ukraine, Berlin
Joined April 2008
I’ve never seen anything like this. Yesterday we installed a displaced pet feeding station in Kramatorsk (with your support!). This morning, the Ukrainian dogs waited in line to eat. 🇺🇦🐕
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Night has fallen, but voting lines continue in Marietta, Georgia. The @WCKitchen team just finished serving dinner. They met someone walking out who arrived at 8am — he waited 12 hours to vote today. We must do better! Until then, #ChefsForThePolls will try to keep everyone fed.
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Instead of visiting the White House for McDonalds, the @Nationals should really just go over to @chefjoseandres’ house.
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An update I hoped I’d never have to make. I’m at a @WCKitchen restaurant in Kharkiv, where less than 24 hours ago I was meeting with their amazing team. Today, a missile stuck. 4 staff were wounded. This is the reality here—cooking is a heroic act of bravery. #ChefsForUkraine 🇺🇦
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Today, the Lviv Philharmonic performed for the first time since the invasion—with refugees from across Ukraine joining the orchestra! It was streamed online, as the concert hall is now a warehouse for medical supplies that go to hospitals. Like food, music to nourish the soul! 🇺🇦
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Zomi was one of the earliest employees at World Central Kitchen. She first showed up to volunteer at our WCK kitchen in Guatemala after the Fuego volcano eruption—and became like family. Zomi was effervescent, her spirit of service embodied the greatest aspects of humanity.
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What a speech. A powerful and unforgettable moment. I’m sure everyone feels good. But now we have to help Ukraine win this war—and quickly. There is no other option for Ukraine, for America, and for the world. #SlavaUkraini 🇺🇦🤝🇺🇸
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From our @WCKitchen team on the border of Ukraine and Poland: 1,700.hot meals of chicken, rice & veggies served here tonight! This is a 24-hour crossing and refugees from Ukraine are streaming through all night. This is just a start to WCK efforts on the ground! #ChefsForUkraine
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I want to introduce you to 3 brave staff from @WCKitchen restaurant Yaposhka! Yulia, Liza, and Yulia are in good spirits & recovering in the hospital after the missile attack. Yulia—next to me—said she’s excited to come back to help feed 1000s once her burns heal. True heroes! 🇺🇦
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In Odessa, Ukraine, freshly prepared meals going out with love from our heroic @WCKitchen chef Aleksander Yourz 💙💛 #ChefsForUkraine 🇺🇦
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I want to share some good news out of Ukraine tonight. While @WCKitchen was delivering food in Derhachi north of Kharkiv, Cary Fukunaga spotted a dog stuck on the second floor of a blown out building. He was able to get him out & Cary now has a new family member 🐶 #DogsOfUkraine
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Yesterday I stood at the Kramatorsk station as we planned to serve food & coffee to 1000s evacuating. Today we saw their murder—Moms. Kids. People burned alive in their cars. We are in shock but @WCKitchen is not running away—we must stand with the people of Ukraine against evil.
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Today I met Natalia & her daughter Miraslava at the train station in Lviv, Ukraine. They just arrived from Zaporizhzhia, where Russian forces attacked the nuclear power plant. Only 5 years old, Miraslava was enjoying her first hot meal in days. This is why @WCKitchen is here. 🇺🇦
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Ambulances are sitting outside California emergency rooms for 7 hours waiting for a bed to open up for the patients they are carrying. And we are threatening healthcare workers if they vaccinate out of order while 100s of thousands of vaccines sit in cold storage? Mind boggling.
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I’ve never seen devastation like this. I’m in Trostyanets in Ukraine, which was occupied by Russian troops for 30 days. We @WCKitchen brought food to railway workers cleaning up & met the mayor. There is no food here at all—everything was looted. We start deliveries this week! 🇺🇦
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I am in shock. 💔 Two friends were murdered by Russia in Odesa this morning. They went to help after the first missile attack & the second missile hit. This is my brother Sergiy—deputy mayor & hero to Odesa. He welcomed me like family in early days of invasion & helped feed
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Update from one of our displaced pet feeding stations in eastern Ukraine! Sergiy is refilling & we already have one eager customer 🐕 ready to eat. Just wanted to give you a look at the situation here & show our Hachiko team in action! Thank you for all the support 🙏 🐱🐶🇺🇦
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Update from Lviv, Ukraine 🇺🇦 I’m at Superhumans, a state of the art prosthetics center we are helping build—it will open in April. 10,000 Ukrainians (many kids) have needed amputations in just 11 months. Superhumans means they can stay in Ukraine for rehabilitation & therapy. 🦾
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After the kitchen closes, we head to the New Orleans streets to deliver meals to those who can’t make it to @WCKitchen food pickup sites. No power means it’s pitch black out, so we serve illuminated by taillights from the back of a WCK vehicle. It’s now day 5 with no electricity.
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Putin is scared. He knows he can’t win in Ukraine, and he can’t keep his war on Europe going—unless the US walks away from Ukraine. It’s why he’s now doing everything to stop the aid. He brought Tucker over to shill, he’s got Elon hosting Spaces, he’s got Senators changing votes.
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This is Shatabdi & her cat Crimsee! 🐈 They overnighted in a bunker in Ukraine, then walked 60 kilometers & waited 12 hours in line at the border with no food before meeting the @WCKitchen team. She was having trouble walking & found the wheelchair on the way. #ChefsForUkraine 🇺🇦
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The Kharkiv Zoo has thankfully been spared from bombing so far, but only a handful of caretakers remain. The @WCKitchen team brings fruit for the animals & food for the staff to cook. I was able to feed the elephant today & @SebLindstrom made friends with a lion. #ChefsForUkraine
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Delivery at the Kharkiv animal shelter! When we arrived with @WCKitchen food for both animals & staff, Yuri—one of the few remaining—gave me a huge a hug. The work they are doing rescuing animals during the attacks is critical, so we will be here to support! #ChefsForUkraine 🐶
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Barbara and her family waited nearly 3 hours to vote today in Charleston, South Carolina. This is why our @WCKitchen team was there with food & water. As she told us: “We have to vote. I’ve been voting since I’ve been 18 years old. I do not miss the votes.” #ChefsForThePolls
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When people ask if I’m scared to be in Ukraine, I think of heroes like Chef Anastasiya Krutakova & her team in Kharkiv. Despite being under constant bombings, they continue to cook for families—and even bake bread! 🥖 @WCKitchen must be here to stand alongside 🇺🇦 #ChefsForUkraine
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We went to deliver food & water with the @WCKitchen team in Honduras today, and @chefjoseandres ended up rescuing a 4-day old baby named Oscar David. We were able to transport the family to relatives living on higher ground. José carried Oscar through the flood waters like a pro.
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Teddy is a good boy 🐶 He quietly waited, together with his human friends, for 20 hours to cross the Ukraine border into Romania. He enjoyed a tasty portion of @WCKitchen soup! Teddy is only one of thousands of animal friends who suffer because of the war 🐈 #ChefsForUkraine 🇺🇦
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My heart breaks for Ukraine, but the spirit of the Ukrainian people fills me with hope. In Kyiv, @WCKitchen restaurant partner Mafia has been cooking meals for shelters, hospitals & medical battalion. Tonight: chicken & vegetable stew with fresh baked bread! #ChefsForUkraine 💛🇺🇦
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Today I met the bravest girl 🦸♀️ Yana, her mom Natasha & twin Yaroslav were at Kramatorsk train station same day as WCK when the bombs hit. They barely survived. Amb. @OMarkarova got them to the US for prosthetics. Despite all, Yana still has a huge smile that fills your heart. ❤️🩹
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This is Luba, who lives in a village near Chernihiv, Ukraine. She took care of 6 dogs and fed them through 2 months of attacks—she hid in the closet with the dogs. Vasyl from the @WCKitchen team delivered food and a kitchen kit with stove for her to cook with! #ChefsForUkraine 🇺🇦
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Because we could all use some good news right now: Grant from the @WCKitchen team found this cute pup in Earlington, Kentucky after the tornadoes. With some help from one of our partner food trucks, we identified her family and brought her home! Meet Lucy! 🐶 #ChefsForKentucky
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This is Igor, who runs a bakery in Kharkiv! Using flour & other ingredients @WCKitchen provides, he bakes for hospitals & the elderly. Not only is his bread amazing, but he makes the best almond croissants I’ve ever had 🥐😋 A sweet respite in a city under siege. #ChefsForUkraine
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Historic moment for the world. “The battle continues, and we must defeat the Kremlin on the battlefield…This struggle will define in what world our children and grandchildren will live in…This battle cannot be postponed…Next year will be a turning point.” #SlavaUkraini 🇺🇦🤝🇺🇸
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After handing out hot bograch soup and fresh-made sandwiches to Ukrainian families with the @WCKitchen team at the Lviv railway station, we ran into a little Hallelujah 🎶 #ChefsForUkraine 🇺🇦
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After nearly 3 weeks in Poland and Ukraine with the @WCKitchen team, I’ve struggled to put into words what I’ve seen. The countless lives ripped apart senselessly. The faces of pain and confusion and uncertainty and loss. The tears. Here’s all I’ve got: This is a war on children.
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At an apartment building in Kramatorsk that was hit by a rocket last week, life goes on (wait for it). We made sure she wasn’t stuck there. Many pets have been victims of the invasion, so @WCKitchen is starting to bring food for furry friends here & in Kharkiv. #CatsForUkraine 🐱
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Today I got to meet the animal saviors of Kharkiv! 🐱🐶 This is the largest veterinary clinic still operating, which also provides pet food & @WCKitchen human food to neighbors. Every day animals arrive injured—we met a dog they had saved with a head wound from a bombing. Heroes!
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Scenes from the Ukraine border tonight: This is the busy Medyka pedestrian crossing & Korczowa accommodation center. As families crossed into Poland, the @WCKitchen team served up hot chicken stew, soup, tea & apple pie! THANK YOU for making this work possible 🙏 #ChefsForUkraine
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In keeping with today’s theme, discovered our new @WCKitchen warehouse in Odesa (where we are preparing thousands of food kits for families in the region) comes with this guy. #CatsOfUkraine 🐱
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A photo isn’t enough to share the desperation in Del Rio, Texas right now. An estimated 14-16,000 people—85% Haitian—are living under the bridge, hoping to seek asylum. I joined the @WCKitchen team here today, as we begin to assist with meals. I’ve never seen anything like this.
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Russia’s kinzhal missiles are fired from war planes that Ukraine cannot stop—the US won’t let Ukraine hit air bases in Russian territory. If this policy doesn’t change, we will see more hospitals bombed, more children killed.
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Just spoke to a 🇺🇦 friend on the border of Kharkiv region near Vovchansk. I’ve never heard him this upset before. They are forced to only use drones because they can’t fire 🇺🇸 shells on Russian territory. Ukraine knows exactly where the C300 launchers & invading troops are.
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Puppy rescue out of Sviatohirsk! 🇺🇦 I met this little one last week—she was incredibly traumatized, her entire life spent under bombing. Today, the team evacuated her to Kramatorsk & after medicine, vaccines and chipping, I will bring her to her forever home. #DogsOfUkraine 🐶
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Today we delivered prepared food & ingredients near the front line, east of Kharkiv. These residents—mostly seniors—have nowhere to go & no access to food. Rockets hit one apt building last night, leaving a huge hole. In awe of our brave @WCKitchen team here. #ChefsForUkraine 🇺🇦
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Update from Kramatorsk! 🐶🇺🇦 The dogs are still incredibly well organized. Our displaced pet feeding station here seems to have become the local hangout spot. #DogsOfUkraine
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Personal 🧵: This past year has changed me, as it has changed so many of you. Whether you’re in Ukraine or supporting from home, we all fighting for the future of our world. Tonight, I am especially honored to share I have taken on a role as President of The Ukraine Foundation.👇
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UPDATE about the 🇺🇦 cats (and dogs)! Today I visited Sviatohirsk to deliver 500lbs of pet food. This is Irina’s house where she takes care of 38 cats & many dogs. There are pets wandering all over Sviatohirsk & other newly liberated cities in eastern Ukraine—and help is needed.👇
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At a cinema turned shelter in Moldova where @WCKitchen is serving, one room is for Ukrainians who fled with their cats. “We left everything behind, but we couldn’t leave them. They traveled with us from Mykolaiv and they’ll continue on to wherever we end up.” #ChefsForUkraine 🐈
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Remember our @WCKitchen truck to Odessa with ingredients to cook with? It made it! We will continue to send more food to support the city! #ChefsForUkraine 🇺🇦
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Right after the missile attack on the shopping mall in Ukraine, I messaged our @WCKitchen team. The reply: “Already on the way.” Along with hot meals, sandwiches, fruit, water & tea—they brought a generator & built a rest area for rescuers. We will continue to be here to support.
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Today we filled up a 2-ton truck with meat, rice, veg & fruit to make the journey from Lviv down to Odessa! Just one of many @WCKitchen trucks going across Ukraine, this is for our chef partner Aleksander Yourz—who continues to cook for his city under siege. #ChefsForUkraine 🇺🇦
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We weren’t far from the Kramatorsk train station when missiles hit, picking up flour from a @WCKitchen warehouse to bring to a bakery. Others can share images, but I can tell you innocent women & children were murdered here today. Our local team continues to work to get food out.
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Day 13 since the attack on Ukraine began. It’s cold 🥶 But there’s nowhere I’d rather be than serving alongside these incredible Ukrainians from across the country—one hot meal at a time. Here’s the latest from our @WCKitchen team at the Lviv railway station. #ChefsForUkraine 🇺🇦
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Our 18-wheeler arrived from Lviv to Odessa! This is the first of many trucks @WCKitchen is sending down as Odessa stockpiles food for families in preparation for an invasion. We are working with the city to fill food needs & also helping to bring in medicine. #ChefsForUkraine 🇺🇦
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So happy to share this update from Bucha! 6 months ago I met Bogdan & his mom Luda on Vokzal'na Street after liberation, their house had been completely destroyed. We promised to help them rebuild—and thanks to incredible support, it’s happening 🙏 Today, the roof is going on! 🇺🇦
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After cooking & delivering 12,000 hot meals out of our kitchen in Les Cayes, Haiti today, the @WCKitchen team made sure these little ones had a bite to eat, too! #ChefsForHaiti always serving with heart. #CatReliefTeam 🐱
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Now for some positive news out of Kramatorsk in Ukraine! I’m at a bakery that is working with @WCKitchen to make sweet (apple) & savory (potatoes & onions) pastries for families as they wait to evacuate. Also: meet Katya, our incredible local WCK leader here💪 #ChefsForUkraine 🇺🇦
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Crazy: the intense heat from the missile attack on the @WCKitchen food train in eastern Ukraine cooked the vegetables inside the surviving train cars. The good news is we were able to save most products from those cars! Thankful nobody was hurt—you can see how the train burned.
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If you want to support efforts to help pets in eastern Ukraine, here’s a link (and more details in the thread). Thank you! 🙏
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“Never leave empty space when people are hungry.” — @chefjoseandres on a helicopter filled with sandwiches as @WCKitchen visits isolated communities in Haiti following the earthquake. He’s on his phone putting in GPS coordinates so the WCK team knows where to return tomorrow.
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Ukrainian dog update! 🐶 New displaced pet feeding stations were installed by the Hachiko team in Kherson this week (with your help!). This is a report from a district called Island—which continues to be heavily bombed by Russia. You can hear booms in the video. #DogsOfUkraine 🇺🇦
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Update from The Ukraine Foundation warehouse ⚡️ Today, Russia fired more missiles at critical infrastructure in Ukraine. Electricity cuts are daily life & cities like Odesa are suffering blackouts. In response, we have delivered hundreds of generators, with 1,000 more on the way.
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As I was about to speak to @AliVelshi today while delivering @WCKitchen food packages to families in Kharkiv, a rocket landed on the other side of the apartment complex. There is nothing here but residential buildings. The bombing isn’t indiscriminate—it’s targeting civilians.
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How can @WCKitchen get fresh meals to frontline & Russian occupied communities in Ukraine that don’t have power or can’t cook? Here in Dnipro, we are creating meal packs that can last 2 weeks without refrigeration! We’ve even been able to get some into Mariupol. #ChefsForUkraine
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I hope this image helps convey the need & urgency in Ukraine. This is the scene today in Oleksandriya, a bit north of Russian occupied area. @WCKitchen is distributing 2,600 food kits (42,000 meals!) for displaced families—9,000+ refugees are registered. We are doing what we can!
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Puppy rescue story! 🐶🇺🇦 Olenka is now 6 months old, so I was able to bring her back to the United States to be with her forever family. This is just after we landed in DC following a long journey that began in eastern Ukraine in October! 👇 1/5
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In Kharkiv, subway stations have become shelters for families escaping the bombs—this is what it’s like. The trains even serve as apartments, especially for seniors & mothers with young children. Thanks to incredible partners @WCKitchen delivers food each day. #ChefsForUkraine 🇺🇦
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Food delivery to Mykolaiv, Ukraine! With the city under attack, food supplies have been running low—so the @WCKitchen team sent a truck from Lviv to support our restaurant partners there cooking for shelters & hospitals. We also sent another truck to Odessa! #ChefsForUkraine 🇺🇦
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The work doesn’t stop! Today, the restaurant team is moving all food products & non-damaged equipment to another kitchen location in Kharkiv. The injured staff are doing well—and all the team here wants to continue cooking. Truly in awe at the bravery of our @WCKitchen partners!
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The horrors faced by families escaping Mariupol & nearby cities are unimaginable. I’m at a reception center that’s their first stop—some waited at Russian checkpoints for 2 days & cars arrive shot up. @WCKitchen delivers meals here & today I brought baby food. #ChefsForUkraine 🇺🇦
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Today we served our 100 millionth #ChefsForUkraine meal! This effort, powered by the people & with no gov support so far, is the biggest humanitarian effort in Ukraine. Tonight I want to recognize the heroic WCK team & our staff behind the scenes. Tomorrow, we’re back to work! 🇺🇦
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Last night I was in Ukraine along the border with Poland serving hundreds of families fleeing the invasion. Exhausted, they had been waiting in line for 20-30 hours. Their friendly smilies belied the tragedy & uncertainty of what’s next. We @WCKitchen will keep doing our part. 🇺🇦
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I want to share with you a special day in Bucha! We returned to celebrate Bogdan’s 24th birthday—the ashes of their home where they survived in the cellar turned into a moment of celebration. The @WCKitchen team brought the cake and Bogdan a new laptop so he can play chess again!
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🐶 Update from the liberated city of Sviatohirsk in eastern Ukraine. These tiny pups were so hungry 🥺 Our Hachiko team delivered food to the informal dog and cat shelters here & refilled our displaced pet feeding stations around the town. #DogsOfUkraine 🇺🇦
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Last update from Odesa, Ukraine (for now!) ⚓️ Meet Chef Viktor, one of our @WCKitchen partners here who is cooking over 3,000 meals each day from 3 kitchens—plus fresh bread from a bakery! He’s expanding the effort & WCK is trucking down ingredients from Lviv. #ChefsForUkraine 🇺🇦
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Human food is always priority, but that doesn’t mean we can’t deliver pet food as well! This is at the main animal shelter in Kharkiv, still operational with a limited but dedicated staff. The @WCKitchen team visits twice a week & provides food for the staff too! #ChefsForUkraine
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This is the scene today at the second railway station in Lviv, where thousands of Ukrainians are arriving from across the country. @WCKitchen is providing hot meals with our local partners. So many families & small children here, it’s truly heartbreaking. #ChefsForUkraine 🇺🇦
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To do something special for kids, the @WCKitchen team held a McDonald’s day in liberated Trostyanets. With all McDs closed since Feb, they gave us their buns, sauces & other ingredients—and we fired up the grill! The smiles in the video might make you tear up. #ChefsForUkraine 🇺🇦
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Now living in a temporary refugee home in Lviv where @WCKitchen serves meals, Serhii fled from Mykolaiv with his mom & little brother—and 4 kittens! Snigzana, Snizgok, Pushok, & Blaki were born just before they left. We will make sure there’s plenty of cat food! #CatsOfUkraine 🐱
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Update from occupied Kherson, Ukraine: Chef Alex Shostak & his partner Alexey continue to cook and deliver fresh meals to shelters and around the community here. We are organizing a @WCKitchen truck to deliver more supplies to them this week. Absolute heroes. #ChefsForUkraine 🇺🇦
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Families who can’t return home after the fire in The Bronx are staying at hotels—so @WCKitchen delivers hot meals to the lobby & families bring them to their rooms to eat together. Dinner at Alden Hotel was prepared by Elegant Affairs, which helped WCK serve hospitals last year!
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The laughter of children in shelters across Lviv fills the heart & breaks it at the same time 💔 One mother I met today has no home to return to. Many Ukrainian families are now deciding to stay in Lviv, looking for jobs. But in the meantime, the kids play. #ChefsForUkraine 🇺🇦
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The city of Kharkiv in the east of Ukraine has been under constant attack for weeks. Every day at lunchtime, there is a huge line for hot meals at @WCKitchen partner restaurant Mundstuck—and they feed them all! Today: millet porridge with chicken & vegetables. #ChefsForUkraine 🇺🇦
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My heart is overflowing. In Kherson, Ukraine @WCKitchen partner Chef Shostak served 100s of meals to shelters, hospitals—and delivered groceries to Oleshky orphanage in occupied territory. The orphanage houses children with polio, cerebral palsy & in wheelchairs, unable to leave.
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Today, the @WCKitchen teams across Ukraine broke our records, producing 59,159 food kits for families—or 1,183,180 meals! Each kit contains dry & fresh items to cook for the week, and they are not lightweight (but we use bags so they can be easily carried)! 💪🇺🇦 #ChefsForUkraine
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3 more @WCKitchen trucks filled with food arrived in Odesa today! These are non-perishable items that families can cook with if the city gets cut off. We are sending more every day & also assisted the Odesa mayor’s office to bring in medical supplies from Poland. #ChefsForUkraine
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Ukraine Pets Update 🐱 from the liberated town of Kivsharivka near the front line. There’s no power, water, gas. 5,000 people still live here & they cook on makeshift kitchens like the one behind me. There are so many displaced pets, so we brought cat & dog food—and will be back!
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Sometimes the @WCKitchen team does more than just food! We’re taking a couple of Starlink internet terminals down to Odesa as well! This will help ensure they can stay connected. Thanks @elonmusk for donating these to Ukraine 🙏🇺🇦
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Delivering @WCKitchen meals in the town of Pushcha-Vodytsya outside Kyiv, we met Svetlana & her 3 week-old kitten, rescued from a box near a trash can. “I picked her up, washed, and will not give her to anyone!” Svetlana lost her home in Donetsk & now lives in a sanatorium here.
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UPDATE from Del Rio, Texas where the camp is now completely empty. We brought the last @WCKitchen meals for families this morning, as they awaited transport on buses and vans. Thank you to everyone who supported our efforts over the last week 🙏
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Last week @WCKitchen began supporting the Jewish community of Łódź, Poland—they are sheltering 70 refugees who fled their homes in Ukraine. They make fresh meals at their community kitchen, and we are sending them Kosher foods to cook with! #ChefsForUkraine 🇺🇦
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I want to share with you what one family faced in Bucha. I’m standing in the house of Lyudmila & her son Bogdan, who has cerebral palsy. They barely survived; he has burns on his back. Bogdan loved playing chess on his laptop, so WCK will bring him one for his birthday next week!
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The situation is changing in western Ukraine: more families are staying in Lviv instead of crossing the border. This is a gym at the veterinary university—10 rooms here are now housing 800 people. @WCKitchen is adding new shelters to our meal deliveries daily. #ChefsForUkraine 🇺🇦
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Remember the heroic Ukrainian women who were injured when the missile hit one of our @WCKitchen restaurants? They are now out of the hospital and back cooking—I got to visit Lisa & Yulia today in Kharkiv at the new kitchen! They are doing well & wanted to say hello to all of you!
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Update from Kramatorsk—morning after the missile attack on the railway station. With evacuation trains no longer running, the @WCKitchen team is serving tea, coffee, sweet & savory buns at a depot where families can get buses. Still lots of confusion & fear here. #ChefsForUkraine
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1am and @chefjoseandres is frying up eggs for sandwiches. The @WCKitchen team also prepared vermicelli pasta with sausage, potato and vegetables for everyone working through the night here in DC following today’s mob insurrection.
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Meet Vasilisa! 🐱 She lives in the basement of this damaged building with volunteers in the frontline town of Orikhiv. They are helping families still living here with no electricity or water. Our Hachiko team is providing food for the dogs & cats like Vasilisa. #CatsOfUkraine 🇺🇦
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Stopped by the White House to remind them that we need to fight like Ukrainians (and send those F-16s). 🇺🇸🇺🇦💪
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Today, @WCKitchen food kits were delivered to families inside devastated Mariupol. Volunteers who have been evacuating people from the occupied city through Russian checkpoints managed to get our bags in—plus extra milk & WCK shelf-stable meals. True heroes! #ChefsForUkraine 🇺🇦
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