"Humanitarian aid helps us a lot," says Maksim, a man in his sixties holding a loaf of bread.
"I'm living off my small pension, it's hard to survive in these times (of war)."
The emptied cars can now also offer to take civilians to safer areas away from the frontline.
Steve and others in the group -- which varies from 10-25 members -- are able to "evacuate civilians, adults, children, their pets."
Their mission seems remote from the Russian Wagner group.
Little is known about the shadowy paramilitary group which is believed to be linked to Russian oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin, who is himself an associate of President Vladimir Putin.
The presence of Wagner paramilitaries has been documented in Libya, Mali and Syria, among many other countries, as well as in Ukraine.
Naming the group Mozart was "a tongue in cheek" retort to the group, according to Andy Bain, a former US marine reserve officer.
Mozart -- which was set up after the war started by an ex-US commander and is funded by donations -- provides military training, but Bain says what they teach is really "a lot of common sense."
"A lot of these soldiers have never fired a weapon before," says group chief operations officer Martin Wetterauer.
"Weapons are obviously very dangerous in the hands of people who don't know how to use them."
