A mum says she ordered a £4,500 taxi to Ukraine from Salford to 'help' after 'one too many double pink gins and shots of Sambuca'. And was only saved by having 'insufficient funds'.
26.02.2022 - 06:01 / justjared.com
Bethenny Frankel is shipping off some hope to Ukraine, following the attacks by Russia earlier this week.
Through her BStrong nonprofit organization, the kits will include toiletries, blankets, non-perishables, generators and more to Ukrainian refugees in Poland.
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“Here, we can just be very quick,” Bethenny shared with People about the aid coming.
The full kits will be filled with blankets, sleeping bags, toiletry kits, non-perishables and water, plus generators
“We’re very immediate because we already have a warehouse that’s filled with $16 million in aid,” she added.
BStrong, which is working with trucking partners, volunteers and logistical experts, has already begun to ship the crisis kits to Poland where it will set up refugee camps and begin distributing the aid by Monday.
“Today, one 40-foot container went,” she shared. “Tomorrow, two 40-foot containers will go out … And then Monday, two additional 40-footers will go out, and it’s good to sort of stagger because it’s a lot more than you can visualize: $10 million in aid is an extraordinary amount.”
She added of why the first shipments are going to Poland: “It’s taking people seven hours to exit. Airways are closed, so it’s taking seven hours for people to get out, and you’re seeing the crazy traffic, and it’s escalating. European countries are going to have to take in refugees, and Poland is already experiencing people coming in now. So it’s the ideal place to set up.”
Bethenny‘s BStrong also donated over a million face masks during the pandemic.
A mum says she ordered a £4,500 taxi to Ukraine from Salford to 'help' after 'one too many double pink gins and shots of Sambuca'. And was only saved by having 'insufficient funds'.
Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorBenjamin Hall, the Fox News Channel correspondent who was injured while covering Russia’s invasion of Ukraine for the Fox Corp.-owned network, has managed to get out of the country, according to a memo from Suzanne Scott, Fox News Media’s CEO, issued Wednesday.“Ben is alert and in good spirits. He is being treated with the best possible care in the world and we are in close contact with his wife and family,” Scott said in the note to staffers.Fox News has deployed a handful of correspondents around the country, including Trey Yingst and Steve Harrigan.Hall had been reporting in Horenka, outside of Kyiv, Ukraine, with cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski and journalist Oleksandra “Sasha” Kuvshynova when their vehicle came under fire.
Ukraine when the vehicle he was traveling in outside of Kyiv with another reporter was struck by incoming fire, the network said on Tuesday.The slain videographer, Pierre Zakrzewski, 55, had covered conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria for Fox, according to a memo sent to the network's employees.“His passion and talent as a journalist were unmatched,” Suzanne Scott, CEO of Fox News Media, said in the memo.Reporter Benjamin Hall has been hospitalized since Monday, when their vehicle was hit in Horenka, the network said.Zakrzewski, who was based in London, was the second journalist killed in Ukraine in two days. Brent Renaud, a documentary filmmaker and another veteran of covering war zones, died Sunday after Russian forces opened fire on his vehicle.Scott said of Zakrzewski: “His talents were vast and there wasn't a role that he didn't jump in to help with in the field — from photographer to engineer to editor to producer — and he did it all under immense pressure with tremendous skill.”Last year, Zakrzewski played a key role in getting Fox's freelancers and their families out of Afghanistan after the U.S.
David and Victoria Beckham have reportedly donated £1million to provide immediate aid to the people of Ukraine. Amid the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, the former professional footballer launched an emergency appeal to assist all the children affected through his 7 Fund for UNICEF campaign. And the celebrity couple is believed to have donated a large sum of their own money, with a source telling MailOnline: "David and Victoria personally donated £1m to the emergency appeal set up via David's dedicated 7 Fund for UNICEF.
Bethenny Frankel's BStrong initiative has reached $25 million in donations for Ukraine. The entrepreneur and "Real Housewives of New York City" alum announced the milestone in a tweet on Friday. "BSTRONG UPDATE: we have committed 15m in aid & have raised over TEN MILLION DOLLARS in $ donations for the refugee relocation program.This is MAJOR," the Skinnygirl founder wrote.
$10 million has been allocated to help relocate refugees, while another $15 million was earmarked for distribution inside Ukraine.The cash was raised through her foundation, BStrong.“We are partnering with different apparel companies, food companies, lodging companies to be announced later, to place these people in lodging,” Frankel said in an Instagram Story video on Thursday.“Thousands of people in lodging and you already knew that we already partnered with travel companies for trains and planes, so it’s planes, trains, lodging, food and clothing for refugees and aid going in,” she added.Get the latest updates in the Russia-Ukraine conflict with The Post’s live coverage.Frankel’s BStrong has helped victims of disasters in the U.S. and around the world since its launch in 2017.
Maksim Chmerkovskiy, 42, appeared on Good Morning America Friday, March 4 and explained how he fled from Ukraine amidst Russian attacks. Before Maks got on a train from Poland and escaped his native country, he was arrested for breaking curfew. “They’re like, ‘Passport.’ I pull out my American passport. He starts speaking English with me. I was like, ‘I speak Russian.’ Then I regretted saying that. I thought maybe it was wrong,” Maks explained on GMA.
Bethenny Frankel is doing what she can to help amid the crisis in Ukraine. The philanthropist and entrepreneur joined Fox News Channel’s "The Story with Martha MacCallum" on Thursday to discuss her worldwide initiative to help aid Ukrainian citizens affected by the Russian invasion.
Sean Penn, 61, continued to chronicle his time in Ukraine on Monday, Feb. 28, tweeting what he and his colleagues witnessed while waking to the Polish border. The Oscar-winner shared a photo of himself walking down a long road with his luggage in tow and what appeared to be miles of cars lining the road. “Myself & two colleagues walked miles to the Polish border after abandoning our car on the side of the road. Almost all the cars in this photo carry women & children only, most without any sign of luggage, and a car, their only possession of value,” he wrote.
Former Strictly Come Dancing star Kristina Rihanoff has slammed Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
the border of Poland.“So we’re really dealing with women and children at the border in Poland. We just had an incident with a woman whose husband was pulled out of the car. He was taken because he’s Ukrainian, and the men can’t leave,” Frankel said in a video shared to her Instagram Story.“He’s never held a gun in his life, and now he’s a soldier, so she’s coming through with her family, and we have to get her family to Spain, where she has family because she doesn’t have family in Poland,” she continued.Frankel first announced BStrong’s assistance on Thursday.