October 2026 Tour

What to Expect

• Meetings with local NGOs and volunteer initiatives

• Visit to villages earlier occupied by the Russians. Listen to the stories of the people living there

• Stay overnight with a family in a village in deoccupied territory

• Long walks in the beautiful cities

• Qualified Ukranian tourleader

Cost

13 600 SEK from and return to Nynäshamn.

11 300 SEK joining in Warsaw. Leaving in Warsaw.

Advance payment 600 SEK.

 Single room supplement is 1500 SEK

Itinerary.

After application you will get a version with more details.

Day 1. Tu 6.10. Departure by ferry from Nynäshamn

17.00 We meet in Polferry terminal.

18.00 dep Nynäshamn.

 We join in Warsaw

Day 2. We 7.10. Train through Poland. Meet in Warsaw

Arrive Gdansk 12.00.

Reserved taxis from Polferries Terminal to Railway station.

12.54 dep Gdansk Glowny

15.23 arr Warsaw Wschodnia

16.00 Here we will meet people coming from rest of Europe and we have to have good margins.

16.49 dep Warsaw Wschodnia

18.33 arr Lublin Glowny

19.00 Minivans across the border straight to a centrally located hotel.

Arrival around midnight.

Day 3. Th 8.10. Lviv. Meet volunteering organizations. Cultural sightseeing

09.00 Breakfast. Meet our tourleader.

10.30 Meeting with BUR (Building Ukraine Together). Volunteering organization that is rebuilding Ukraine in many different ways.

11.30 Visit to Lviv Volunteer Kitchen. You are welcome to stay back and help the ladies.

Afternoon walk in company of a local guide around the city to see remnants of many cultures and traces of all nations that earlier had the city within its borders.

The heart of Lviv's old town, Rynok Square (Market Square) is a UNESCO-listed site with colorful renaissance buildings, cafes, and a vibrant atmosphere.

Lviv Opera House, a magnificent architectural gem, the Lviv Opera House is one of Ukraine's most beautiful theaters, hosting opera and ballet performances. You may like to check up on their program.

Lviv City Hall is an impressive example of Gothic architecture, and the Town Hall Tower offers panoramic views of the city.

Armenian Cathedral, a historic cathedral known for its unique architecture, offers stunning views of Lviv.

Dominican Church and Monastery: A beautiful Baroque complex with a striking church and a museum showcasing religious art and artifacts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lviv Total 3-4 hours.

Visit to the military cemetery which is expanded almost every day.

Curfew (utegångsförbud) from 00.00 to 05.00. This can be changed any time.

Day 4. Fr 9.10 Lviv. Visit to volunteering centers

10.00 Visit to a drone making workshop, Social Drone SocialDroneUA | FPV Drone Community

11.30 Visit to Superhumans, a nationwide modern center for war trauma that specializes in prosthetics, reconstructive surgery, rehabilitation, and psychological support for adults and children affected by war. Суперх'юманс Центр

14.30 Meeting with local volunteers, Dzygas Paw - charity foundation that supplies the Ukrainian military with high-tech equipment.

Free time

18.30 Back to the hotel.

19.00 Public transport to the railway station. Dinner in the vicinity. 

20.32 Dep Lviv by train to Odesa. Sleepers. 

Day 5. Sa 10.10 Odesa. Visit Volunteer organization and sightseeing

08.39 Arr Odesa. Tram to our hotel.

Breakfast.

11.00 Visit to the volunteering organization Military equipment and clothes factory. Волонтерський центр "На хвилі" – Офіційний сайт волонтерського об'єднання "На хвилі" (onthewave.com.ua)

12.30 Meeting with volunteering team Technary, a team of engineering specialists engaged in the development and implementation of innovative solutions in programming, optics, and electronics. TECHNARY – Програмне та технічне забезпечення сил ППО

14.00 Odesa is a big city with a long history as the center for both trade and culture in Black Sea area, only second to Istanbul. In the afternoon, we take a longer walk in company of Misha Kerrisk to explore this renowned multicultural city. 

The city has been bombarded several times, also recently. We see the sites, especially the cathedral. Bombing of Odesa (2022–present) - Wikipedia. 

Day 6. Su 11.10 Odesa. Catacombs. Swim in Black Sea

Free time in the morning

13.30 Visit to the famous catacombs Excursion to the catacombs ✯ Museum of the Secret of Underground Odessa (odessakatakomby.com)

Maybe a swim in Black Sea! Hopefully they will take out the piano. Here we can enjoy local wine, dried octopus and more. 

Day 7. Mo 12.10 Mykolaiv. See the city, earlier on the frontline

09.15 Hired bus to Mykolaiv.

11.30 Arr Mykolaiv.. Meet with Oleksii Ryabovolik. He will be with us for two days. He is also a volunteer at Peoples Project. https://www.peoplesproject.com/   https://www.facebook.com/Narodnyi.Proekt 

Peoples project is the biggest organization in the south. They have worked since 2014 and support exclusively military brigades that come from Mykolaiv and Odesa and civil people from the region. They were also involved in Kakhovska hydroelectric power plan flooding rescue operations. They will make a short presentation for us, gather for a meeting to share cases and stories, and invite soldiers if possible.

14.00 We walk around in the central parts of the city in company of Oleksii who will tell the stories of what happened when the Russians invaded in 2022. Mykolaiv was the last outpost on the Russian army's way to central Ukraine. This is the city that played a key role in the defense of southern Ukraine. It was here that the Russians were stopped and the process of pushing them back to the Dnipro River began. Battle of Mykolaiv - Wikipedia

We will see historical sights as well as new realities (for example, there is no drinking water at all in Mykolaiv and people have to get water at water supply points). There are also many destroyed buildings in Mykolaiv that we will see on our way.

Day 8. Tu 13.10. Mykolaiv. Visiting destroyed villages – Stay with families

Free time in the morning. Do not miss the ceremony at 09.00 outside the hotel. Checkout, but we keep two rooms for luggage.

After lunch by rented bus to the deoccupied villages of Mykolaiv and Kherson oblast.  We will end up in villages Myroliubivka and Nadezhdivk.

A reasonable amount of money will be allocated in the budget for this tour. You may make a donation on the spot, but you may also like to do that after the tour, from home.  In general, they just want to bring awareness and share stories and will be really happy to assist us during the trip.

Overnigh stay in the villages

The group will be split into small groups of 1 - 3 persons in each. Each group will stay overnight with different local families. Together with them you will have dinner and later go to bed for the night. Next morning they will serve you breakfast.

In Ukranian culture payment is not accepted from guests. Instead, I will pay a larger amount for a project chosen by the village leaders. BUT tradition is also that you bring a small personal gift. Something that reminds of you or your country. These people may never have seen foreigners before! (Besides the Russian killers).  We come as guests. And we behave as good guests do, we adjust to whatever is offered.

Language is of course a problem, but there will be at least two English speaking Ukrainians with us. And we can use Google Translate. Also, some of the young people will be happy to try whatever they have learnt in school. We will have access to at least two interpreters.

I will not be surprised if this turns out to be the best part of the tour.

Day 9. We 14.10. Mykolaiv sightseeing. Train from Odesa for Kyiv.

Breakfast with families.

10.00 Bus back to Mykolaiv and our hotel. Here we have left some of our luggage

Lunch

After lunch we visit a Czech  organization called KoridorUA.  https://www.darujme.cz/organizace/1201192 

Bus back to Odesa

Dinner.

22.00 dep Odesa by train for Kyiv. Sleepers.

Day 10. Th 15.10. Visit the biggest organization and Kyiv Independent. Walking around in central Kyiv

07.50 Arr Kyiv. Transfer by metro to lour hotel near Independence Square, Maidan.

Breakfast at the hotel.

Maybe we will be joined by Per-Olof Karlsson from Kharkiv, alias Perre

(20+) Perre’s Matpåsar i Ukraina 🇸🇪0736008020 Swish 🇳🇴92288320 Vipps | Grupper | Facebook

We will not organize a visit to the northern suburbs of Kyiv which were to some extent destroyed by the Russians at the first days of war; Butcha, Irpin, Borodyanka, names the world still remember. These places have largely been renovated, and the traces of the Russian attack are essentially gone. Impressive!

09.30 Come back Alive is said to be the biggest volunteering fund. They provide training in several military specialist positions related to this high-tech war.  Monthly they receive donations around three million Euro. Come Back Alive Foundation - Charity Organization (savelife.in.ua)

We are invited to visit the internationally best known Ukranian newspaper, The Kyiv Independent — News from Ukraine, Eastern Europe

13.00 Walking around the central parts of Kyiv by foot and public transport.

We will visit the most impressively ancient 12th-century Mykhailivskyi and 11th-century Sophia Cathedrals, as well as the famous Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra . On 15.6 this UNESCO heritage was bombed by the Russians. Their aim is to hurt the Ukrainian culture. This 1000 years old monastery being one of the strongest symbols.

We will also see an exhibition of destroyed Russian armored vehicles. Museum of the Formation of the Ukrainian Nation - the newest museum of Ukrainian history. Here we will be surprised by how much Ukrainian history is intertwined with the Swedish. This museum is close to the symbol of Kyiv - the Motherland sculpture. Maybe, a total of 5 hours. Kyiv – Wikipedia.

Day 11. Fr 16.10. Visiting  organizations

Breakfast at the hotel. Check out.

09.30. Visit to volunteering organization Glory UA Charity Fund. Private movie viewing “We are the recruits”.  Meeting with film authors - human rights defenders, lawyers, volunteers, founders of the Glory UA Charity Fund. Talks about the state of legal system, corruption, anti-raider practice and volunteer projects. A sensitive issue is mobilization. We will also hopefully touch on the future of rebuilding Ukraine. This quite high-profile talks will put demands on us, visitors, guests. Be prepared! https://glory.foundation/en/about-us/

11.00 We will meet Alexander Tebenko from UA Postcards. With their help we have been able to reach people all over the world with information about this very tour.

12.30 Lunch at Puzata Khata.

14.00 Meeting with charity fund Children of Heroes. They support children of fallen heroes, children who have suffered the ultimate tragedy: the loss of a parent, or parents, during the ongoing war. In April this year, they supported 16 000 children from one week to 18 years.

15.30 Meeting with charity group Radystky. A group of female friends who organize events to raise funds for the military. 

18.19 Train to Chelm in Poland. Sleepers.

Day 12. Sa 17.10 Goodbye in Warsaw. Train to Gdansk and the ferry.

05.00 Arr Chelm.

06.22 dep Chelm by train.

09:43 arr Warszawa Centralna. Here we say goodbye to some of our fellow travellers.

11.01 dep Warszawa Centralna.

14.14 arr Gdansk Glowny.

Bus 106 to the harbour.

17.00 Check in at the ferry terminal.

Ferry to Nynäshamn at 18.00

Day 13. Su 18.10 Arrival in Nynäshamn

Arr Nynäshamn at 12.00.

Updates and more details of the tour will later be added. Changes to this itinerary can be made at any time, as improvements or depending on the security situation.

Price of the tour

13 600 SEK from and return to Nynäshamn. Advance payment 600 SEK (non-refundable)

11 300 SEK Joining in Warsaw, leaving in Warsaw. Advance payment 600 SEK (non-refundable)

Single room supplement is 1200 SEK. This is recommended.

Your participation is confirmed only when the advance payment is received.

Final payment should be with me at the latest of 1^st September.

Price includes:

Qualified tour leadership.

She will receive us in the railway station in L´viv. You will later have her name and What´s App phone number.

All transports from and return to Nynäshamn. Or from Warsaw, return to Warsaw.

Local transport and entries.

All accommodation during the tour.

Food is not included.

The economical surplus of the tour will be donated to Ukraine.

Please pay to:

Christian Jutvik

Skyttevägen 25

SE 133 36 Saltsjöbaden, Sweden

Iban: SE36 6000 0000 0005 3540 6622

Bank: HANDSESS

Handelsbanken

Box 15041

10465 Stockholm

Sweden

Myself, I do this on a strictly volunteering basis. Me and my wife also pay the same amount for the tour.

A Swedish travel insurance is not valid for Ukraine. You may purchase a Ukrainian insurance. Emergency healthcare is free also for foreigners in Ukraine.

Travel insurance in Ukraine online for foreigners and Ukrainians | Страхова компанія «Місто» (ic-misto.com.ua)

Donations and Bankomats (ATM)

On this tour, you will meet representatives of the organizations that deliver support directly to those who need it most. If you would like to make a donation, you can decide based on your own priorities. This is a privilege. I strongly suggest that you also ask around in your circle of friends if they like to avail themselves of this opportunity. They trust you – make a collection!

It is a lot easier to make a donation on the spot, compared to transferring money from home. You easily get the local currency Hryvnia from your bankcard. ATMs are found everywhere in the cities.

Security

Updates and more details of the tour will later be added. Changes to this itinerary can be made at any time, as improvements or depending on the security situation.

Do not give any information of dates, whereabouts, hotels on the Internet while in Ukraine.

Any questions, please phone me. It is a lot easier and a lot nicer to talk compared to writing.

Christian Jutvik

Skyttevägen 25

133 36 Saltsjöbaden, Sweden

Mobile, What´s App +46 76 94 33 8 11

Mail: christianjutvik@hotmail.com

(If you have any doubt about my authenticity, you should google my name. And check my web page: https://www.visitukraine.info/. You can easily alter the text into any language.