{"id":26549,"date":"2025-04-17T04:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T04:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/26549\/"},"modified":"2025-04-17T04:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T04:12:07","slug":"retired-london-ambulances-donated-to-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/26549\/","title":{"rendered":"Retired London ambulances donated to Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.londonambulance.nhs.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">London Ambulance Service<\/a> has donated 59 decommissioned ambulances to Ukraine to help provide care for those in warzones or civilians injured as the country remains at war.<\/p>\n<p>The ambulances have been handed over to the charity <a href=\"https:\/\/british-ukrainianaid.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">British-Ukrainian Aid<\/a> as they have gone out of service.<\/p>\n<p>The latest donation of nine ambulances have now been delivered to the frontline.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cThe ambulances have reached the end of their service in the capital but they can still help to save lives in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are very proud we can do this and our thoughts remain with our counterparts working on ambulances caring for those injured in the conflict.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chris Rutherford, Fleet Modernisation Manager at London Ambulance Service.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The ambulances were no longer being used by LAS frontline crews as the Service has invested in a fleet of greener vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>The total of 59 include 10 retired ambulances that were donated at the start of the war when a team of volunteers drove the vehicles filled with medical supplies to Poland so they could be taken over the border to Ukraine to bolster humanitarian efforts.<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2022 the 26 London Ambulance volunteers drove 1,100 miles over three days to deliver the ambulances.<\/p>\n<p>They had been filled with donated medical equipment from NHS organisations across London, including ventilators, syringe pumps, tourniquets, wound dressings, blizzard blankets and personal protective equipment.<\/p>\n<p>Since then Ukrainian drivers have collected the ambulances which have been loaded onto lorries and delivered to where they are needed most.<\/p>\n<p>Nadia Pylypchuk from British-Ukrainian Aid said: \u201cIn Ukraine any equipment or any help really matters \u2013 whether it is big or small.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe cannot thank the London Ambulance Service enough for their kind donations which are saving lives. The ambulances are used on the frontline and to treat civilians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, <a href=\"https:\/\/emergencyservicestimes.com\/2025\/04\/16\/london-firefighters-return-home-after-delivering-life-saving-equipment-to-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">London Fire Brigade donated vital life-saving equipment<\/a> to Ukraine, including over 140 folding roof ladders, pallets of goggles, overalls and supplementary kit for breathing apparatus.<\/p>\n<p>To read similar articles, check out our <a href=\"https:\/\/emergencyservicestimes.com\/category\/frontline\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Frontline<\/a> channel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"London Ambulance Service has donated 59 decommissioned ambulances to Ukraine to help provide care for those in warzones&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[16186,748,393,16187,16188,4884,3181,257,16189,136,16,657,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-26549","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-ambulance","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-equipment","12":"tag-frontline","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-leadership","15":"tag-london","16":"tag-london-ambulance","17":"tag-london-ambulance-service","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-ukraine","20":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114351357636698310","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}