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United 24: General fundraising

Come Back Alive: Specific projects

Prytula foundation: Specific projects

Dzyga’s Paw: General fundraising (animal themed 🐶)

They need all the help they can get.

Help99 : Vehicles, drones, and drone jammers . Subscription and one-off.

Protect-a-Volunteer: Matchmaking sponsors of funds and airline miles (for international volunteers), general fundraising

Renegade Relief Runners: Medical and humanitarian aid. Tax deductible in USA.

Prevail Together: Landmine removal, medical and humanitarian aid. Tax deductible in the USA.

Wild Hornets: Drones....TW: the resulting FPV drone footage is *extremely* NSFW/NSFL

Yuri Chornomorets: Specialized sniper ammunition

Drukarmy: 3D printing drone parts and medical supplies

Liberty Ukraine: Earthmoving equipment and general fundraising. Tax deductible in USA.

Tytanovi: Physiotherapy and rehab for war amputees

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Shitlist (please avoid) -

German Lions For Ukraine - suspected pyramid scheme, low transparency, gives faulty medical supplies

Georgian Legion - Threatens people who ask for transparency

hullo hullo o/ thank you for a very relatable ask

unfortunately, i don't have some "one fit all" solution for this, but there are some methods, each a bit more time consuming than the last

Check their blog. See "ru" in there? Become sus. If it's stated first, i just block and move on to not waste my time. if it's stated later on - up to you; i'd block still, but if you have time/nerves/energy you can dig deeper and see if it's just a language someone knows or ruzzian who doesn't want to be called out

Example:

2. Check if there are links to other soc.med or other things. Most of the time, you'll either see places somewhere: x, bluesky, insta, wherever. Youtube is a good test if they have it, you can check the country there. If it's not stated, become sus and check the oldest videos. See/hear ru? Block.

Example:

Translation from ru:

3. Speaking of links you may see. See boosty? Block. It's ru parteon, in essense.

4. Same for vk aka vkontakte. Ru attempt of facebook, afaik. Block.

5. Same for yandex email. Block and move on.

6. Another more niche thing is ficbook. Aka "ru try to steal ao3 as well". Block and move on.

7. Check if there are things in pinned posts. Maybe they mention where they are from (people are insane like that nowadays because internet security knowledge is shit), and it can be useful. See a geographic name, check where it is. Ru? Block and move on

8. This one requires some time (and why i usually am so hesitant to like any new artists without checking and cross checking them...) but you can also check their art. Especially older art. They might have ru text in the art itself that you can spot and use to identify them, altho I understand that reading cursive can be challenging

Example:

This one is easier for me, as I know the language, but if you are relying only on google translate, check a few times as it loves lumping other languages into ru for some reason. ы, э (not є) and ё can be telling, tho - but again, they are used in other languages too, and it's better to double check if you're not sure.

9. If you see a combination of "Z" *and* russian language, congratulatons, you found a genocide supporter as Z is how ru soldiers mark themselves. Consider it nazi's swastika if you will, they're the same.

10. This one is more of an observation than a rule, but if you see someone who is a fan of Pathologic (or "Мор. Утопия" in ru) become suspicious. In my experience, 7 times out of 10, they do turn out to be ru. But this is more of a personal experience

Addendum to points 3-6: duckduckgo/google/search by other method of your preference their nickname. People usually reuse those, and you can see same people in vk or on boosty. If you're afraid of unrightfully blocking someone with the same nickname, you can try opening those and check if the same art/pfp/posts are there. I usually just block. But maybe you'll have more energy than me.

the photos of his ukrainian colleagues murdered by russia is clearly a political move for the international olympic committee. meanwhile, ruzzians are competing as "neutral" athletes, which makes no sense at all, knowing who they are, where they're from and who they support. ruzzian fans are happily waving their rags in the stands in milan, and no one seems to care that at the very same moment they're committing a literal fucking genocide. its a fucking shame, the west doesn't and will never understand the suffering inflicted by ruzzia or what it's like to live alongside them. SHAME

In autumn russia began targeting our power plants during air raids to create a humanitarian disaster in Kyiv, region around the city and many many other big cities and towns in Ukraine. Along with electricity they planned to destroy our water systems and central heating, so that they could sway civilians to despair. If you can't win the war on the frontline, target the people in the back.

So since autumn there have been scheduled blackouts in my city and many cities all over Ukraine. In Kyiv that meant all buildings were separated in 12 groups and each group had its time with and without electricity. Good weather and less attacks meant more electricity, cold and air raids meant less electricity.

Since the temperatures dropped to -20°C russians began attacking the power plants even more. Since early January there's over 4000 buildings in my city without central heating. That means freezing temperatures inside apartments. Our workers are fixing the power plants in record times but it's hard work bordering on overworking.

Then there's the electricity. The situation is so bad, there are no more schedules for it, and we get electricity when there's the least amount of demand for it. That means that we get it at 12 am and it dissappears at 8 am, and there's little you can predict about it.

Our oven only works from electricity, so there's no cooking unless at nighttime. Our warm water is broken too, and nobody is really rushing to fix it (understandably, there are buildings without water at all) and so not-freezing-cold water is only available from an electric boiler.

But good news, my family bought an ecoflow (a huge expensive battery) and it powers our light and wifi! You can see our apartment from outside when there's a blackout, since we're one of the only windows still bright. The battery charges from the main powergrid and then pours the electricity back into it when we turn it on. Sometimes we even turn on the kettle or the microwave with it's power!

Among those things you get used to when the electricity is back on is preparing some boiling water to pour into thermoses, charging the ecoflow battery and cooking whatever is urgently needed. Then you get to do what elsetime would take the precious electricity from your battery: using the pc, charging the less important devices etc. You can even use the elevators!

We're lucky enough to have a pretty good central heating situation! Sure, you don't want to get out from your blankets, but it's still warm enough to only need one sweater. My cousin had no electricity, water nor central heating before the city got to fixing her building. My friend has the same situation with electricity as us, but his ecoflow is weaker.

Our universities sent the students back to their homes (or the dorm if it's any better) so that they could get a better chance with finding electricity to study. I don't even want to think about my thesis. I'll do it when the power gets better, yeah. Definitely not procrastinating.

The city is dark. I thought I could snap a picture but it would be hard to understand what is what in the darkness. There are no street lights working, and the buildings are dark too. The only light you can see comes from cars, flashlights the people are carrying, and from stores that have manual electricity generators. Those are very loud too, you can barely hear a thing while passing by them.

Our neighbor ran out of power and asked in the group chat for some help. We gave her our powerbank and she told us to call her up if we ever need some gas cans for a gas stove. Yay community!

People are allowed to go outside during curfew to get to a city confirmed location with electricity to charge their devices or to warm up a bit. Those are called "the unbreakable points", pretty cool, right? But most people charge up or work with their laptops at the local cafes. Just buy some food and enjoy the complimentary electricity!

I may be forgetting something else but that's okay. Please reblog to spread awareness! And for the last part, here's a picture of our dog with his personal flashlight! He's afraid of the dark stairs we have to climb without electricity, so we got him one to feel less scared! It's strapped to his neck like a collar and turns him into the most adorable horror game protagonist during walks!

Translation:

1) And then they said

2) YOUR DANCE IS INAPPROPRIATE

3) CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT?

4) that's--- /AWFUL/ yes! exactly!

7) t: flowers to cheer up a flower

Just a few stories of Ukrainian writers killed by russia in 2024/25. There are more of them. Keeping their memory alive is the least we can do

* Nedopysani is a memorial project to honor those Ukrainian people of literature who were killed by Russia. Our goal is not merely to make a list—we want to celebrate lives of the fallen ones, read their poems and novels, carry on their legacy.

We are the echoes of their voices