FedEx flight departs for Europe carrying relief for Ukrainian refugees
A FedEx driver ferries crates filled with humanitarian aid to be loaded on a plane and shipped to Ukraine, Saturday, March 26. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian)
A FedEx employee waits to load cargo into the plane. The United Nations estimates that 10 million people have fled their homes in Ukraine since the outset of the war. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian)
FedEx workers push crates filled with humanitarian aid. In addition to the equipment needed to assemble a functioning field hospital, Direct Relief also provided treatments for conditions including diabetes, asthma and cancer. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian)
FedEx workers load up carts of aid to be shipped to Ukraine. FedEx announced in early March it would suspend all services in Russia and Belarus. (Patrick Lantrip/TheDaily Memphian)
For more than two hours Saturday morning, FedEx Express team members loaded a Boeing 777 cargo aircraft with 76 tons of supplies, including an emergency field hospital and life-saving medicines.
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Rob Moore covers North Mississippi for The Daily Memphian. He holds a B.A. and an M.A. in English from The University of Memphis.
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