The chairman of the national association together with the first vice-presidents of the UAF Anatoliy Demchenko, Oleh Protsasov, Vadim Kostyuchenko, and the vice-president of the UAF and head of the regional association Vasyl Orlytsky met with the head of the regional military administration Serhiy Osachuk and the head of the youth and sports department OMA Ivan Geshk.

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The meeting participants summed up the cooperation since the beginning of Russia's full-scale aggression, discussed opportunities for deepening collaboration between the authorities, regional association and volunteers. Chernivtsi and Chernivtsi region play an important logistical role today in organizing humanitarian cargo from foreign partners of the UAF, including Romania and Moldova. This was noted by the president of the UAF Andriy Pavelko during the meeting.

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"Bukovina is far from the zones of active combat, so it's safe here. And it's also close to the borders with Romania and Moldova, which makes it convenient to organize logistics for providing aid to those affected by the war. Overall, the local hub is a good example of unity and maximally effective interaction between football communities in three countries. In the early days of full-scale war, thanks to our friends, President of the Football Federation of Moldova Leonid Oleynichenko and head of the Romanian Football Federation Răzvan Burleanu, we managed to safely evacuate foreign specialists working for the UAF, 'Dynamo', 'Shakhtar' and other clubs. And then through Chernivtsi came strong support for Ukraine from various directions by our partners in Romania and Moldova," — said the president of the UAF.

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According to him, a good example of such support was the prompt organization and dispatch from Moldova, with direct participation of Leonid Oleynichenko, of medicines and food products for the National Children's Specialized Hospital 'Oxmatdit'. Later another batch of aid was delivered to Kharkiv. In turn, humanitarian cargo from the Romanian Football Federation was handed over to families with children who suffered from Russian occupation in Bucha, Irpin and Birozhsky district of Kyiv region.

"We highly appreciate such support and are grateful for it to our Moldovan and Romanian friends! Also thank you to the football community of Bukovina led by Vasyl Orlytsky and local authorities for effective cooperation in providing humanitarian aid to people affected by fascist aggression of Russia. We continue joint work towards victory!" — summed up Andriy Pavelko.