$3,383: The Line-by-Line Cost of Rescuing One Stolen Ukrainian Child

People ask where the money goes. Fair question. Here is the exact, documented cost of one rescue mission organized by Save Ukraine and funded by We Are All Ukrainians.

No rounding. No vague categories. Every dollar:

The Breakdown

• $181: Document Preparation & Logistics: Travel documents for the mother or guardian. Many lost everything in the war: homes, paperwork, records. This covers rebuilding the legal trail that proves custody and identity.
• $2,040: Travel: Round-trip guided travel from Ukraine through Poland and Belarus into Russia and back. 3,000 miles. Multiple border crossings. Coordinated by Save Ukraine’s operations team.
• $639: Overnight Stays: Motel rooms along the route. The journey takes days in each direction. Mothers and children need safe places to sleep.
• $214: Food: Meals for mother and child throughout the multi-day journey. Not restaurant meals. Road food. Enough to keep going.
• $152: Legal and Psychological Support + Training: Pre-departure training for the mother on navigating hostile territory, handling checkpoints, and managing the emotional complexity of reuniting with a child who may not recognize them. Legal support to prove custody.
• $157: Contingency: The unexpected. In a 3,000-mile extraction through a war-adjacent region, something unexpected always happens.

Total: $3,383

Why We Publish This

Because trust is earned, not assumed. When you give money to a cause, you deserve to know exactly what it buys. We don’t use vague language about “supporting programs.” We tell you: your $152 paid for a mother’s extraction training. Your $75 paid for the hotel room where she and her daughter slept on the second night of the journey home. Your $25 paid for the meal they shared at a rest stop in Belarus.

1,026 rescue missions, documented to the dollar.

What Your Donation Buys: In Real Terms

• $25: One meal for a mother and child during travel. That’s a real meal at a real rest stop on the real road between Russia and Ukraine.
• $75: One night in a motel. A door that locks. A bed. Safety for a few hours.
• $152: The full training package that prepares a mother to enter hostile territory and come back alive with her child.
• $500: One-way travel from Ukraine to the location in Russia where her child is being held.
• $3,383: Everything. Start to finish. Document prep to safe return. One family, reunited.

You probably spent more than $3,383 on your last vacation.

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