Helping Ukraine and Ukrainians

[heimlaga]

Drones2ukraine is a Swedish organisation who both buy new civilian drones and collect secondhand civilian drones of such types that are useful for the Ukrainan army. They cooperate closely with Dronarium, the Ukrainan army drone pilot training center. Theese drones are used for reconnoisance and fire control at the frontline. Every infantryman does his best to shoot down enemy drones so the consumption of drones is enormous even if the Ukrainans try to repair them as best they can.
https://www.drones2ukraine.eu/

At the moment they are hard at it trying to scrape together 25 drones and fit them with infrared cameras. They are to be used for important operations on a very important piece of frontline. Which piece is of cause secret.

[heimlaga]

"Jonas"is a Swedish former military man who spends all his time fundraising and buying pickups and delivering them directly to frontline units in Ukraine. He keeps his full name secret but he has quite a reputation theese days.
https://www.facebook.com/jonas.matern

[heimlaga]

The Lithuanian organisation Blue-Yellow is constantly fundraising and suppluing the Ukrainan army with uniforms, bullet-proofs vests, drones, communication equipment, blankets, first aid equipment and so on.
Lithuania being a small and very poor country has really given as much as they possibly can.
https://blue-yellow.lt/en

[heimlaga]

Hospitallers

An Ukrainan organisation which has branched out it's logistic network in Europe. Run by commander Yana Zinkevich (a remarkable wheelchair bound former Ukrainan army medic). They currently have over 500 volunteers at the frontline. They are fighting paramedics each carrying a gun for self defence and working in cooperation with Ukrainan Army units.
I know through my sources that at least two Nordic volunteers have been killed and one has returned home wounded. Nobody knows how many others of other nationalities......
Theese people go in where the fighting is hard and retrieve the wounded and stabilize them and bring them to the nearest hospital. They have saved huge numbers of lives and the number is growing hour by hour.

https://www.hospitallers.org.uk/
If there are any heroes in the world it is theese people.

[heimlaga]

Locals in Esse in Österbotten welded up 750 woodstoves and shipped them to Ukraine a while ago to help civilian survive the winter blackouts and help soldiers stay warm at the frontline.
News story in Swedish here:
https://svenska.yle.fi/a/7-10027067

[heimlaga]

There might have been a way to translate it, but the website came up in Swedish. The icon for donations was clear though as was the Paypal link.

Thanks for posting that.

If someone is interrested in donating I am willing to help you translate important parts of the Swedish text into English.

[heimlaga]

Hvite Busser 2022 is a very small Norwegian organisation that fetches refugees from badly hit parts of Ukraine and transports them directly to safety in Norway where there is already a significant Ukrainan community and where government helps them to get started. They prioritice such elderly and women and children who really have nowhere to go. In Norway they use donated money to stuff the busses full with such medical supplies as are requested through the Ukrainan embassy.

https://hb2022.no/
https://mobile.twitter.com/HviteBusser2022

[NeBek]

CarToDonate is a new project created by Ukrainian volunteers. Its goal is to find people who want to donate their old cars to the Ukrainian armed forces and paramedics. These cars will be rebuilt, upgraded, and transformed according to the military needs and sent to the front line. You can choose whether you donate a car to the ASAP Rescue Team, to Medical Team, or for military use.

https://cartodonate.com

[rayman]

A wealthy businessman in south Australia bought a shipment of 50 or maybe more little "Nissan" vans. He then stripped them out and installed a simple stretcher and rack and sent them over for the frontline medics. They are a sort of ambulance, but just a one man vehicle. I will try and find more info.

[Chip-skiff]

Latvia is sending cars seized from drunken drivers to Ukraine.

The first batch of cars will start making their way on Friday, the head of a charity helping deliver them said, and will go to the military and hospitals.

Emma Bubola
March 9, 2023

Ukrainians have received billions in military aid, including Patriot missile systems from the Americans, training from the British and a pledge of Leopard 2 tanks from the Germans. Now, they are getting cars seized from Latvian drunken drivers, too.

The government of the Baltic former Soviet nation, where staunch support for Ukraine is partly driven by fears of Russian aggression, has already provided significant military and other aid to Ukraine, including Stinger surface-to-air missiles. But the pledge of seized cars, which can be used to deliver supplies or move medical personnel, is a more unconventional step to help Ukraine fight off Russia’s invasion.

“They will be in better hands,” said Reinis Poznaks, who leads a charity that was tasked by the government to deliver the vehicles to Ukraine.

On Wednesday, Latvia’s state revenue service, which keeps records of state property, posted on Facebook a picture of cars loaded on a truck in the country’s snow-covered landscape, noting that they would “no longer be driven on Latvian roads by their former owners — drunk drivers.”



The first batch of cars will start making their way to Ukraine on Friday, Mr. Poznaks said. They will be transferred to Ukrainian Army units, a hospital in the city of Vinnytsia in west-central Ukraine and a medical association in Kupiansk, in the country’s east, the government said in a statement. Fifteen more are set to go next week, Mr. Poznaks said.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/09/w...e=articleShare

[skuthorp]

Vlad has had quite a remarkable effect on Europe, especially the states facing 'buffer status' if the Russians succeed in Ukraine. And on the people, not just on their governments.

[heimlaga]

Decendants of the Swedes who in 1929 were evacuated to Sweden from Gammalsvenskby (Old-swedish-village) by the Dnipro near Nova Kahovka are helping their relatives and other villagers. Within two days of the liberation they had a scouting party in place to find out what was needed.
http://www.svenskbyborna.se/hjalpverksamhet/


The history of this Swedish village in Ukraine starts with a group of landowning Swedish farmers from Röicks and Kerrdal on Dagö in present day Estonia who were deported to Ukraine after they opposed a nobleman who grabbed their land and started treating them as serfs.

[heimlaga]

Another Swedish volunteer organisation supplying both the Ukrainan army and civilian help organisations.
https://www.facebook.com/SkickaVidareTillUkraina

[NickW]

Dorset bus converted into a hospital to help in Ukraine










A bus, which used to be seen in towns like Dorchester and Weymouth, will now be swapping passengers for patients.
Swindon Humanitarian Aid Partnership has started converting a bus into a mobile hospital that will travel between villages in Ukraine.
The bus will be fitted with hospital beds and emergency equipment.
It will help provide care for battle casualties and the sick who struggle to get help in the war-damaged hospitals.
The charity, which has sent lots of aid from Berkshire and Wiltshire, hopes that it will be the first of many buses that will make the same journey.
Video by Joe Campbell and Hannah Walsh

Video at https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-eng...orset-65175480 unable to embed it here Nick

[heimlaga]

A convoy of resque vehicles from Norway heading for Ukraine

https://twitter.com/NorwegianAidUkr/...397690368?s=20

[Stiletto]

[heimlaga]

That is pro-Russian propaganda bull**** and has nothing to do in this thread. Every American conspiracy terrorist has made it his full time profession to blur the facts which are all fairly clear to us who live close tho the Russian border.

Just pull out.....and start preparing to house, cloth and feed a few 100 million European refugees arriving across the Atlantic aboard anything that can possibly float and to rescue at sea those who boarded things that could not float as Putin's army rolls through one European country after another.........

[emmabet12]

good luck to you guys

[Chip-skiff]

Since when do real CIA folks post videos with their names and faces on f*cking YouTube?

[WszystekPoTrochu]

Girl came to Poland last year, we've talked several times. This is a trustworthy person using a trustworthy (local) collection system.

I was born in Nikopol in the Dnipropetrovsk region on the right bank of the Dniper River (Kakhovka reservoir). On the opposite, the left bank is located the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, which is currently occupied by russian forces. The distance between these cities is 6 km. This allows the invaders to shell my hometown with artillery almost every day. At the moment, houses, schools, and hospitals have been destroyed. Many people have left Nikopol for safer places. But some people have been forced to stay home. Among these people are many pensioners, low-income families, disabled people, and women with children who need food, hygiene items, and medicine every day. These are not enough in local supermarkets and pharmacies.

Since then, the situation has rapidly worsened: Nikopol is above the destroyed dam and has now lost all access to drinking water.
Smaller actions are also worth considering: the people that are in most need of external help, like the elderly and/or impaired, will often have serious difficulty to stand in queue at distribution points or even reach them. The group of colleagues Nadia is in successfully organised several such actions and always provided good reports on how, where and when the money went. The first one focused mainly on mothers with newborns finding refuge in central Ukraine, other on simply a box of inexpensive battery powered lights. I did not post here the other ones, but this one - considering the location - is a bit more pressing

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