Singer Dua Lipa donates funds to deliver a truck to Ukrainian medical battalion
Singer Dua Lipa has donated money to fund a pickup truck for Ukraine's First Medical Battalion.
Ms Lipa, 30, who is known for her hits such as Levitating and Barbie's Dance The Night, funded the vehicle to help frontline medical units, according to the Kyiv Post.
The pickup truck was supplied to the country by Driving Ukraine, a charity that has sent more than 340 vehicles to the frontlines, aided by Ms Lipa's activism platform Service95.
"We received the vehicle from the organisation Driving Ukraine, with funds helped to be raised by Dua Lipa and her organisation Service95," Volodymyr Koval, Ukraine First Medical Battalion's head of communications said in the Kyiv Post.
Driving Ukraine, which has been operational since the war began four years ago, renovates and sends ambulances and other vehicles to Ukraine.
The charity has so far led 57 convoys and raised more than £1.3m for Ukraine.
It was reported that a private event, organised at a café in central London last month, fundraised to help Ukrainians.
"As far as I know, the vehicle was delivered to Ukraine as part of a humanitarian convoy that also included the singer's mother," Mr Koval said.
The event also involved the wider Ukrainian community, who showed solidarity with their compatriots, and humanitarian volunteers.
The model, who holds British, Albanian and Kosovan citizenship, works on other initiatives, such as the all-female Convoy 55 that delivered medical supplies to Lviv.
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