Singer’s mother took part in humanitarian convoy that delivered vehicle to medics on front line
The video posted by the medical battalion features a combat medic reclining on the truck listening to a Dua Lipa song Credit: Instagram
Antonia Langford in Kyiv
Antonia Langford is a reporter based in Kyiv who covers Ukraine and Russia. She has also written for The Times, The Guardian and The i, among others. Antonia was shortlisted for Best Early Career Journalist in the Freelance Journalist Awards 2025.
Published 21 April 2026 9:34pm BST
Dua Lipa has helped fund the delivery of a pickup truck to Ukraine’s medics on the front line against Russia.
The London-born singer held an event to raise money for Driving Ukraine, a charity which that evacuation vehicles to the war-torn country.
Her mother was even involved in the humanitarian convoy to Ukraine which delivered the truck to a medical battalion to be used in “life-saving missions”.
“The probability of Dua Lipa helping to raise funds to provide a vehicle for our unit is not high… but it is never zero,” Ukraine’s First Separate Medical Battalion wrote on Instagram.
“Thank you to Dua Lipa, Service 95 [the star’s digital platform], and Driving Ukraine for this powerful pickup truck for the First Separate Medical Battalion,” the battalion added. “It will help us perform life-saving missions in the combat zone.”
It accompanied the post with a video of a combat medic reclining on a vehicle listening to Levitating, Lipa’s 2020 hit, as medical supplies are loaded into the back.
A scene from the video posted on Instagram Credit: Instagra
“Hello. Dua Lipa joined the fundraiser and purchased a pickup truck for the First Medical Battalion. Goodbye,” Roman Hryshchuk, a Ukrainian politician, wrote on social media.
The vehicle was paid for using funds raised for Driving Ukraine, a UK-based non-profit at an event hosted by Service95 in south-east London late last month.
It was part of the singer’s “Club For…” series, and guests danced to techno, Latin funk and disco music from a range of headliners.
The First Separate Medical Battalion has completed more than 500 targeted medical evacuations and recently made headlines in Ukraine for evacuating six wounded soldiers using unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) in a single day.
Dua Lipa on stage at Wembley in June last year Credit: Samir Hussein/WireImage
Anesa Lipa, the singer’s mother, was involved in delivering the truck to Ukraine from the UK, according to Kyiv Post, an English-language Ukrainian news website.
“As far as I know, the vehicle was delivered to Ukraine as part of a humanitarian convoy that also included the singer’s mother,” Volodymyr Koval, the head of communications for the First Separate Medical Battalion, told the outlet.
Lipa was born in 1995 to Kosovar-Albanian parents who fled conflict and political instability in the Balkans. She has said she feels “very close” to people suffering in conflicts because of stories she heard about the 1998 Kosovo war.
“I heard stories from friends who lost family members. Houses burned. I saw them. When you have that direct communication with people who have been through [war], it opens up a completely new world,” she said in 2024.
Lipa is not the first global celebrity to publicly advocate for Ukraine in recent months. In March, Sean Penn, the US actor, skipped the Oscars to tour the Donetsk region front-line areas with the 157th Separate Mechanised Brigade.
He received a makeshift Oscar fashioned from metal from a Ukrainian train struck by Russian missiles as a token of the country’s appreciation.
Comment from :
Hilary Deighton
Very well done, Miss Lipa and Mum, and all those contributing in different ways to Ukraine’s defence against Putin’s cruel and wicked war of vanity.
Hairy Plotter
Everything Helps, even something as simple as buying Ukrainian postage stamps. Can speak from experience that students state They’re “qwell asf” on their laptops n such.
Gregory Clarke
Send one, it’s a gesture. Send 10 and it’s a signal.
Graham Boyd
Anything is welcomed but she could do a lot more if she wanted to.
ash arm
I gave a UK Charity 2 x large vans to go too at the start of the war. It never made the news……
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Bill Carson
Another nobody trying to promote themselves 😂😂😂
Aaron the Moor
Reply to Bill Carson
Dua Lipa doesn’t have any need to promote herself, she’s amongst the most successful female pop stars on the planet.
Commenter Hilary Deighton has it right, as she usually does.
This is more than a token effort. It’s vital that people who command a huge Gen Z following like Dua, can publicise Ukraine’s anguish as much as possible, because many of Gen Z people formulate their political views from the opinions of their idols.
Thank you so much, Miss Lipa! Well done!