SPONSOR A FLIGHT

If you are a volunteer traveling to or from Ukraine and need help with a flight, please click on the flight form below and fill out all of the information required. We’ll be in touch as soon as we possibly can. Please remember a flight is not guaranteed.

PLEASE NOTE: PAV will only provide you with a ticket for your flight. You are responsible for additional luggage costs. PAV volunteers and donors cannot assist you with issues you encounter during your travels (e.g. losing items, needing place to stay, ground transportation, sickness, etc).It is your responsibility to ensure you arrive on time for your flight and plan ahead for traffic or other potential delays. If you miss your flight, we cannot help you further. You will need to talk to the airline to try to get on a later flight. Volunteers and donors spend many hours finding flights for you so please be considerate of their time.We expect that you will have sufficient spending money to purchase food or other incidentals while traveling. Unless it is an emergency flight, you will need to save some spending money before traveling.Have questions? Reach out to moc.reetnulovatcetorp%40ylppa for help.

Sponsor a Flight or Hotel

Thousands of volunteers from all around the world have gone to Ukraine to assist. There are military veterans and skilled medical professionals who are willing to put their lives on the line, however many of them need financial assistance to travel to or from Ukraine. Others need help getting home after injury. In 2023, we booked 117 flights for volunteers. In 2024 we booked 70. 

You can help! Here are the ways you can sponsor a flight:

Donate any amount to the “Flight Fund” via Paypal. We use this fund to book tickets at the best available price for routes that don’t have airline miles available or to cover the taxes and fees for miles bookings.

Sign up to use your airline miles to book a flight for a volunteer, or to pay for a flight directly. You can also sign up to use hotel points to book a stay for an injured volunteer. Sign up by clicking the button below:

  • We help military veterans, medics, and other highly qualified volunteers afford flights by matching them with donors who directly pay for the flight using money or airline miles.

  • Once an applicant applies for a flight, we verify that they are returning to an NGO or a military unit, have no known discipline issues, and are a volunteer whose skills are in high demand. The same vetting team for gear sponsorship vets flight applicants. We then match the volunteers with a donor whose airline miles or budget is appropriate for their flight. A volunteer who is an expert on reward booking assists donors and volunteers to book the flights.

  • On rare occasions we will assist volunteers coming to Ukraine for the first time. These applicants must have verifiable military experience in their home countries and have been accepted to a military unit in Ukraine. Acceptance to the 4th Battalion of the International Legion does NOT make a first time applicant eligible for a flight.

VOLUNTEERS WE’VE HELPED

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FROM AUSTRALIA

This is one volunteer who got help with a flight. He's from Australia and joined Ukraine's army. He has been wounded in combat and has since returned home; we hope he fully recovers and can go back again.

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FROM THE USA

This US volunteer returned to fight in Ukraine with help from a Protect A Volunteer flight sponsor.

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FROM THE USA

“Kyiv train station, heading to Poland and back to America. I will try to remember to take another picture at airport.” This is from a US volunteer heading home from Ukraine. He flew with help from a Protect A Volunteer flight sponsor.

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FROM CANADA

"Thank you again for all the help in coming back. Being here and helping is where I feel like I belong in life. And I'm glad you all gave me the chance to come back again”. This volunteer returned to fight in Ukraine with help from a Protect A Volunteer flight sponsor.

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FROM BRAZIL

During 2023 I fought for 8 months and was successful at the front as an artillery sergeant in the Ukrainian army.

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FROM BRAZIL

This Brazilian volunteer served in Ukraine last year, in Kherson. He was injured in combat by a grenade, and needed to go home to finish his treatment, and have more surgeries.

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FROM BRAZIL

A volunteer from Brazil we helped

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FROM THE USA

"PAV gave me purpose in my life. After I got out of the Army, my life was so lonely and boring. Thank you to all the volunteers who gave me my life back. I’m sor happy here :)"

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FROM PERU

This is a soldier from Peru now serving in Ukraine's military. He has extensive military experience having served in his own country's military and as a contractor in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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FROM THE USA

"I am a US citizen with law enforcement, medical, and heavy equipment operating experience. I traveled to Ukraine for the first time last year to join the International Legion and fell in love with the country and the people, which reaffirmed my belief that I was going to fight for a good cause. I left Ukraine due to an injury. Now that my ribs have healed, I have returned to help Ukraine."

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FROM THE USA

“Since I've been out of the US Army, I've been helping Ukraine fight for their freedom and democracy. This will be my third trip to Ukraine. On my first trip, I helped defend the surrounding areas around Kharkiv, my second trip I was wounded during an assault mission in Bakhmut.”