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Here you will find an overview of news articles and media coverage featuring Protect Ukraine.

Haagsch College: ‘Theatre tour in collaboration with Haagsch College’

Writers Tommy Wieringa and Jaap Scholten bring their theatre show ‘To the Front in Ukraine’, produced by Haagsch College, to…

NRC: ‘A break from sheltering from drones or training in the dark’

In Utrecht, young Ukrainian rugby players can spend a week simply playing rugby, a break from sheltering from drones or…

TVL.be: ‘Grief and determination: Limburg Aid Convoy Encounters Ukraine at War’

Every morning, Ukraine observes a minute of silence for its war dead, and for the members of the Limburg aid…

TVL.be: ‘Heidi Rakels travels with the first Flemish aid convoy supporting Ukrainian soldiers’

An aid convoy from Limburg, Belgium, is heading to Ukraine with two ambulances and four off-road vehicles, the first Flemish…

Het Parool: ‘We’ll probably spend every night in the bomb shelter’

Oesophageal surgeon and professor Mark van Berge Henegouwen, a medical reservist with the Dutch Ministry of Defence since last year,…

NPO Radio 1: ‘On behalf of Protect Ukraine, 28 Dutch rugby players are organising a tournament in Lviv’

On NPO Radio 1: on behalf of Protect Ukraine, 28 Dutch rugby players are organising a tournament in Lviv with…

Instagram: ‘Being pregnant and giving birth during the war in Ukraine’

Lisa Vliegenthart travelled to Lviv with Protect Ukraine to learn about maternity care during the war. Since the invasion, this…

RTL Nieuws: ‘Their lives aren’t safe above ground, so Ukrainian doctors will soon save lives underground’

Dutch foundation Protect Ukraine, together with a Norwegian organisation, is going to build a large underground military hospital in Ukraine….

NRC: ‘At the front in Ukraine, military medics watch along via drones’

At the front in Ukraine, military medical staff follow the action via drones. Among them is Dutch medic Kristina, who…

Podcast ‘Operating (underground) at the Ukrainian front’

In the NPO podcast De Dag, two Dutch doctors talk about their experiences working in hospitals in Ukraine, including operating…

Podcast ‘A refrigerated truck for Nadiia’

Can you be a war journalist and help Ukrainians at the same time? When Max Boogaart (27) witnessed the invasion…

Zomergasten with Tommy Wieringa raises 400,000 euros in donations

On 16 August, Tommy Wieringa spent three hours in conversation with Janine Abbring on the Dutch TV programme Zomergasten. The…

A great honour

On behalf of President Zelensky, Ukrainian ambassador Kostin presented Jaap Scholten with the Order of Merit, in recognition of the…

Eddy van Wessel photo exhibition

On 22 May the exhibition ‘Ukraine: Voices, Stories, European Future’ by renowned Dutch photographer Eddy van Wessel opened in Limassol,…

What do you do when you see injustice? Tommy Wieringa has travelled to Ukraine five times

War is still raging on the edge of our continent, with more than a million people in Kyiv without power…

Iris Koppe and Juliet Broersen on Spijkers met Koppen

On the BNNVARA radio programme Spijkers met Koppen (24 January 2026), Iris Koppe and Juliet Broersen explain how Protect Ukraine…

Konvooi (Convoy)

What does solidarity mean in times of war? Tommy Wieringa and Jaap Scholten travel with volunteers and a convoy of…

When is it time to leave Ukraine?

The tense situation around Ukraine raises difficult questions, such as when to start evacuations. Dutch foreign minister Hoekstra warns that…

Three Writers and a General Want to Talk the Dutch Out of Their Coma About Russia

Three writers and a former Lieutenant General will be in Enschede on Tuesday to warn the Netherlands. In the De…

Twente writer Jaap Scholten on two and a half years of aid to the Ukrainian army

For two and a half years, Enschede writer Jaap Scholten has been travelling to a country at war, never empty-handed:…

On the road to hell: ‘When the Russians see a red cross, they attack immediately’

As the war enters its fourth year, the Dutch newspaper FD travelled through Ukraine with a Protect Ukraine convoy delivering…

Amsterdam surgeon operates in Ukraine: ‘I have two sons, I’m afraid they will have to go and fight’

Talks about negotiations are under way, but the war in Ukraine is not over and healthcare remains under severe pressure….

Grief comes with sounds the little sons had never heard from their mother

In spring and summer the war graves at the Heroes’ Cemetery in Lviv turn into flowering gardens, tended by mothers…

BEAU Op Zondag

On the Dutch talk show BEAU Op Zondag: Rob Jetten travelled to the front in Ukraine with Protect Ukraine and…

These Dutch authors bring military aid to Ukraine. Someone has to do it. And: they write.

Can writers limit themselves to describing events from a safe distance, or does a world on fire demand more than…

Dutch remote-controlled boat to make Ukrainian supply runs safer

Drones play an increasingly important role in the war. Dutch aid organisation Protect Ukraine has developed a remote-controlled boat, the…

Putin will never give up of his own accord

Putin’s terror in Ukraine is part of a long tradition of Russian expansionism and war, writes Jaap Scholten. After 80…

Nooit Meer Slapen: Tommy Wieringa

In the radio programme ‘Nooit meer slapen’, writer Tommy Wieringa talks about his work, from his breakthrough novel ‘Joe Speedboot’…

Twente writer Jaap Scholten on two and a half years of aid to the Ukrainian army

For two and a half years, Enschede writer Jaap Scholten has been travelling to a country at war, never empty-handed:…

Tommy Wieringa travelled to Ukraine: ‘There is no reassurance, this is happening now, at this very moment’

The war in Ukraine drags on, fought with old-fashioned trenches and modern drones. Writer Tommy Wieringa travelled there several times…

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