Baby boxes for trapped Ukrainains
Urgent supplies for babies are among the items being delivered to new mothers in Ukraine as a charity calls on aid to "speed up”.
Oleg Dmitriev, chair of Edinburgh-based charity Sunflower Scotland, has said support is urgently needed for civilians trapped in eastern Ukraine.
He said vulnerable families may not survive the harsh winter without it.
Mr Dmitriev made an eightday trip delivering aid to towns and villages close to the front line of the Russian invasion last month before returning to Scotland, and has since gone back to Ukraine.
He worked with local volunteers to deliver food and other necessary supplies - such as walking aids and baby items to hospitals.
"Winter is rapidly approaching and aid efforts must now speed up instead of slowing down. We need to get aid quickly to the people trapped in the towns and villages that I visited, so that they have the supplies they need to survive the winter.
"By the time we start seeing pictures of snow-covered fields on our television screens, it will be too late to help them because it will be much harder to drive to these places during the winter, especially if the Russians keep advancing.
"I am scared for the people I met and how they will survive a bad winter.
"Aid is being sent to refugees in the big cities, but not to those people who have been stranded in more remote towns and villages. They have been left in limbo.
"People have been living in bomb shelters for months. They are still living there now, but they've been forgotten about, and they need our help."
Mr Dmitriev will return to eastern Ukraine later this
month with another shipment of supplies. The charity has dispatched several articulated lorries with more than 100 tonnes of clothing, food and medical equipment.
During last month's trip, Mr
Dmitriev packed a 4x4 full of essential supplies, from first aid kits and tourniquets for doctors to surplus boots and uniforms for soldiers.
He had "no idea" what to expect when he visited towns
such as Chuhuiv and Malinovka.
Mr Dmitriev fled Russia in 2012. His wife Elvira Dmitrieva has family in Ukraine.