From Romanian border to Zaporizhzhia front line: American couple hosts charity race to support Ukrainians

Espreso correspondent Natalia Starepravo reported the information. 

The American couple finished the marathon in Kyiv, running from the Motherland monument to Mykhailivska Square. In total, the race from the Romanian border to the front line in Zaporizhzhia lasted three weeks. 

The “No...I can, for Ukraine” campaign is a joint project with the charity organization Reaching Beyond Ourselves (RBO) to support the Chaplaincy Battalion of Mariupol and the Pilgrim Republic orphanage in Ivano-Frankivsk region. 
 

The main organizers of this initiative are RBO Executive Director Ryan Birtcher and his wife Mila, and Ryan is also crossing the country by bike.
 

The team hopes that this event will draw attention to Ukraine. The participants of the race also remind the Ukrainians that people remember and support them.
 

• On September 11, Tyler and Nikki Chay and their friends Ryan and Mila Birtcher visited Ivano-Frankivsk.

• On September 16, the couple visited Ternopil, where they were joined by representatives of the National Guard of Ukraine, who ran a symbolic 5 kilometers.

• On September 19, the American couple was welcomed in Khmelnytskyi.