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Director of the "Come Back Alive" Taras Chmut spoke at the US Congress🫡

Due to the invitation of the @HelsinkiComm, the director of our Foundation took part in the hearing on the Ukrainian volunteer movement💪🇺🇦

Here are the abstracts of his speech👇

📌"Our goal is comprehensive support and provision of the Ukrainian Defense Forces with technical means to achieve superiority on the battlefield, including night vision and thermal imagers, drones, communication devices, vehicles, and thousands of other items."

📌"We are modernizing air defense systems and repairing Humvees.

We were the first ones in Ukraine to obtain a license to buy military goods. In May this year, we bought a Turkish "Bayraktar" - the UAV combat system."

📌"Everything we are doing is in response to the terrible war that takes dozens, if not hundreds, of lives daily. Equipment and weapons are continuously lost in the war. That is why, there is a need to equip our military."

📌"We must make up for those losses and replenish equipment as long as defenders of Ukraine continue to fight - and that includes Americans who joined this war as volunteers."

📌"Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, Come Back Alive has built up collaboration with US-based organizations that supply our logistical network with thousands of bulletproof vests, helmets, first aid kits, and other essentials that have been in critical need."

📌 "That is why I`d like to say: it is very important that the USA removes Ukraine from the "Crime Control" column of the Commerce Control List. That will allow us to deliver critically needed equipment, such as holographic weapon sights, more quickly and efficiently."