Thread by @kms_d4k

Real friendship is what matters.

War only helps to understand this.

I want to say thanks to my friend Dimko today. Maybe, the equipment he sent saved my life a couple of times. 🧵

Our friendship with Dimko started a long time ago.

We went to high school together and used to hang out a lot, as usual teenagers. Then we both moved to Lviv, Dimko went to Polytechnic University and I started my studies at Military school there.

We always kept in touch and saw each other from time to time.
Dimko started working in IT and I was serving in the army.

We even started a business together - an apartment for rent on Airbnb. This business was pretty successful but we didn`t have much time to develop it.

A few days before the 24th of February we met with Dimko and our school friend Sasha and were talking about a possible full-scale invasion.

Everyone was worried at that time and no one knew exactly what could happen. It was the last calm moment with friends.

My unit was in Mykolaiiv when the full-scale invasion happened.
In March Dimko contacted me and asked what we need because people from Twitter were donating money to help Ukrainian soldiers.

He sent the first parcel with individual sapper kits and a mine detector.

https://twitter.com/kms_d4k/status/1514648012659830791

In May I was fighting near Bilohorivka and after I twitted about my mission there many people followed me and started donating a lot for my Air Assault Brigade needs.

https://twitter.com/kms_d4k/status/1524506104192974849

Dimko organized everything - logistics, buying things, communication, and delivered it to us. It helped a lot.

Thanks to Dimko my unit’s needs in technological equipment were completely covered.

Without help from volunteers and Dzyga’s Paw specifically, it would be much more difficult for me and my guys to perform combat tasks and set up our life on the frontline.

I am lucky to have such a good friend as Dimko whom I trust.

Love for Ukraine and the desire to make it a better place is the thing that brings us together. So I am fighting now at the frontline and Dimko Is keeping a steady supply of what we need to win the battles.

We dream that after our victory we will introduce our girlfriends to each other and travel around the world together, start a business, do things that other young people are doing.

But now it is time to fight Russian invaders and after that, we could finally live a normal life.