The Austin Ukrainian community is collecting medical supplies to help emergency medical personnel in the front lines of the Russian invasion in Ukraine. 

Facebook group members of Austin Ukrainians organized the medical aid drive. Organizers partnered with Ukrainian San Antonio, a nonprofit organization, to deliver the supplies first to Poland and then to medical personnel in Ukraine, Polina Shavaroba, told the American-Statesman. 

Items will be collected during business hours at The House (formerly Russian House) restaurant in Austin and at Sharks Burger restaurant in Leander, she said.

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"The whole Ukraine is one big family now. So our hearts bleed with pain for all our people whose cities are under siege and who have no ways to safely evacuate," Shavaroba, whose family and friends are currently sheltered in Kyiv and in rural central Ukraine, said. "We are planning to keep the drive ongoing after we ship the first batch."

At least 2.8 million Ukrainians have fled the country, the U.N. refugee agency told USA Today. More than 1.7 million of them exited through Poland.

As of Sunday, at least 103 children have died and hundreds more have been injured since the Russian invasion began last month, Ukrainian Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova told USA Today.

Rallies and protests against the war in Ukraine have been held daily and weekly throughout the city, organized by members and supporters of the Austin Ukrainian community. 

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• MediTac Premium IFAK Kit (emergency medical kit)

• Tactical EMS/EMT Trauma First Aid Responder Medical Kit

• Tactical backpacks 10" x 19" x 14" (approximate size)

• Bandage Strips, 1'' x 3''

• Bag valve masks / Ambu bags: Pocket BVM Manual Resuscitator

• Burn Aid — water gel burn dressing 4" x 4", 4" x 16"

• Burnshield hydrogel (tube, spray, packet, dressing) and similar

• Chest seals: HALO and similar

• Constricting bands NAR BOA IV

• Combat application tourniquets CAT Gen 7 (Gen 6), SOFT / SAM

• Dynarex Medicut Sterile Disposable Scalpels #10

• Hemostatic dressing: QuikClot Combat Gauze and similar

• Israeli Emergency Bandage and similar, size 4", 6", 12"

• Pain relievers: Ibuprofen or Acetaminophen, or both

• IV catheter 18G, 20G, 22G

• Medical adhesive tape rolls (2-3 inches)

• Multi trauma dressings, 12'' x 30''

• Sharks Burger, 12681 Hero Way West, Leander

• The House, 307 East Fifth St., Austin

For more information, text 512-872-9145 or email polina.shabarova@gmail.com

Austin American-Statesman reporter Natalia Contreras can be reached at 512-626-4036 or ncontreras@statesman.com. Follow her on Twitter and Facebook, @NataliaECG.