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The Scripps News story about "Mad Max" is inspiring strangers to buy used trucks and drive them to Ukraine for front-line duty.
Want to give a truck to Ukrainian fighters? 'Mad Max' is your guy
Scripps News
February 1, 2023
An orphanage director hiding children in a city under siege. A software engineer using steel plates to turn out battle-ready trucks. And a couple in Munich, Germany, who saw the story of Ukraine's "Mad Max" on Scripps News and saw an opportunity to help.
Georg Rossmair and his wife, Anja, bought a truck and drove it all the way from Germany to western Ukraine.
But there was another donation, in the bed of the pickup — a giant generator.
Max Titov, dubbed "Mad Max," quickly armored up and sent the truck to a front-line unit in Bakhmut. But he still wanted to find a worthy recipient for the generator.
Titov heard about Volodymyr Sahaidak, the orphanage director in Kherson who we have reported on since last March.
Sahaidak eagerly accepted the offer of a generator and Titov made a 15-hour trip across his war-torn country to deliver it in person.
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