Elena Shakhinova has been helping the front almost since the beginning of the Northern Military District. The Saratov resident united volunteer groups to help the front.

She will celebrate International Women's Day in Lugansk, where she will bring humanitarian aid for military personnel. On her last trip to Lugansk she helped relatives of SVO participants find their loved ones who were missing at the front - one died, all the rest are alive. She has become the coordinator of the public organization ‘Russian World’ in the Sar atov region.