{"id":15177,"date":"2026-04-20T11:12:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T08:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tavidraugi.lv\/?p=15177"},"modified":"2026-04-20T11:14:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T08:14:47","slug":"residents-of-latvia-donated-more-than-500-kilograms-of-knitted-items-to-ukrainian-soldiers-this-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tavidraugi.lv\/en\/2026\/04\/20\/residents-of-latvia-donated-more-than-500-kilograms-of-knitted-items-to-ukrainian-soldiers-this-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"Residents of Latvia donated more than 500 kilograms of knitted items to Ukrainian soldiers this winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Residents of Latvia have prepared more than 500 kilograms of knitted items for Ukrainian soldiers as part of a charity campaign organized by the charity organizations \u201cTavi draugi\u201d and \u201cLatvijas Pasts\u201d during the cold season of 2025\/2026.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Continuing to support Ukraine\u2019s freedom fighters, \u201cTavi draugi,\u201d together with \u201cLatvijas Pasts,\u201d carried out the campaign for the sixth time last autumn and winter, inviting residents of Latvia to provide and donate knitted items \u2013 socks, gloves, hats, scarves, and more. Since the end of October last year, more than 500 kilograms of knitted goods have been delivered to the \u201cTavi draugi\u201d organization, most of them via \u201cLatvijas Pasts\u201d customer centers, service points, and parcel lockers, which were available to campaign participants free of charge.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ulvis Noviks, head of the \u201cTavi draugi\u201d organization:<\/strong> \u201cTogether with \u2018Latvijas Pasts,\u2019 we have completed the sixth knitting campaign. We are grateful to the people of Latvia for their unwavering support \u2013 every pair of socks prepared carries care, warmth of heart, and kind thoughts knitted into every stitch. During this particularly harsh winter, we received shipments from knitters all across Latvia every week and promptly delivered them to Ukraine, where they were very useful for keeping warm and maintaining morale.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In total, since the beginning of the war, approximately 15,000 kilograms of knitted items from Latvian residents have been delivered to Ukraine through the campaign. \u201cIt is important for us to support Ukraine, and we gladly do so in various ways \u2013 whether through postage stamps that tell the world about Ukrainian courage, or warm knitted items that embody the goodwill of our people for Ukraine\u2019s strength. We are pleased that these thousands of kilograms, using the postal infrastructure, quickly and conveniently entered Ukraine\u2019s support logistics chain and reached the soldiers,\u201d <strong>says \u0122irts Rudz\u012btis, Chairman of the Board of SJSC \u201cLatvijas Pasts<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents of Latvia have prepared more than 500 kilograms of knitted items for Ukrainian soldiers as part of a charity campaign organized by the charity organizations \u201cTavi draugi\u201d and \u201cLatvijas Pasts\u201d during the cold season of 2025\/2026. 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