Ukrainian food bank gives thousands of meals after Russia invasion

Since Russia launched its invasion in late February, a food charity in Dnipro, Ukraine has given thousands of Ukrainian residents meals from a food bank founded by businessman Vladyslav Shtipelman and the World Central Kitchen.

Shtipelman and the World Central Kitchen set up a food packing factory in Dnipro to provide food and food to people displaced from their homes due to the war.

Volunteers use a production line to package meals in bags that are then loaded onto trucks and delivered to refugees in Dnipro.

The biggest challenge was to get it up and running within a few days to build the conveyors, establish the technological chains, and establish the processes, according to Shtipelman.

The World Central Kitchen is a non-governmental organization in the U.S. that provides food in times of humanitarian, climate and community crises. The organization said it provides meals to more than 2,000 Ukrainian distribution sites.

The kitchen in Dnipro prepared about 500 meals per day during the early days of the war. One volunteer said the number has grown to 5,000 -- 7,000 daily meals.

Russia has killed thousands of civilians, destroyed cities in the eastern European nation, and displaced millions of Ukrainians from their homes.