Did you all see what @BackAndAlive's Black Box fundraiser did? They raised 230 million UAH (6.4m USD) for Beaver drones to strike ru offensive military capabilities, that's what they did.
It's quality bavovna, and it's the most cost-effective way to save lives.
"This is Kolibri. He is a special forces officer of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine..."
"The 'Black Box' contains, most notably, the Ukrainian bombardment drone 'Beaver', which has a range of up to 800 km. And this is just one of the components of the 'Box'."
For $6.4 million in donations, we get $900 million USD in damage to russia's war machine, and so many lives and cities saved.
"In the first 8 months of 2023, the Black Box caused more than $900 million in damage to the enemy, according to the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine. 'Beaver' successfully performed missions in Crimea, in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine..."
"...and at military facilities on enemy territory. For example, it hit an important enterprise of the enemy’s military-industrial complex – a plant for the production of electronics for missiles such as X-31, X-35 and X-59, which are launched from tactical aircraft."
"[It] also hit a storage facility where Russians stored missile parts for Iskander ballistic missile systems."
You can quantify damage to missile factories.
You can't fully quantify the lives it's saved to destroy the weapons of the aggressor.
Shouts out to @CorwinEternal for the quality visual. 😂
@CorwinEternal "Last year... Ukrainian society – citizens and businesses, including PLVision, EVA, Intellias, COMFY, Sombra, Uptech, MTI hi-tech distribution, Uklon, ELEKS, and others – joined the collection for the Black Box project."
Follow their lead. @BackAndAlive is in 🇺🇦's top tier.
Check out @EuromaidanPress's fine write-up on the project! 🔥🔥🔥
Nobody's more serious about saving Ukrainian lives than Ukrainians. These volunteer orgs are setting the bar. Let's help them, and let's take their cues.
That "spy dossier" supposedly from Ukraine that Mriya Aid used to attack a journalist, David Pugliese, who called them out early? It never existed.
MA faked "evidence" he was a russian agent, and went after other critics with threats of SA+violence.
Sound familiar?!? 🇺🇦🧵👇
Disclaimer: years of sifting through this, and you'll find selfish actors, suspicious ones, and genuine supporters of Ukraine caught in the middle.
I admire Canada, and volunteers who've proven true allies of Ukraine despite this chaos. Let those who caused this own it.
"After [David's] damning article, Mriya+bots spread rumors that he was a ru/Soviet spy.
The jist: 'Don't read that report about deliveries of Chinese knock-off night-vision goggles instead of ones they fundraised for - the author's a ru spy!'"
"Guys, is there really a unit called the Georgian Legion? Did that Mamuka guy ever actually fight anywhere? What the hell is this—millions of dollars from Westerners going to some cunning jerk again?"
Tearing down the "divine right of kings" - a team effort!
While French thinkers were 🤯 over free 🌎 indigenous societies, they also talked with Cossacks who had elected leaders - in 1648. Ukraine's Orlyk devised a constitution with separation of powers in 1710. Fascinating 🧵👇
This means that the US Constitution came from a rebellion against "divine right" and monarchic power, and Ukraine's Orlyk was absolutely part of this conversation.
Through Montesquieu, Ukraine was no further than one degree of separation from the US's founding inspirations.
There's an overlap between Ukrainians and the First Nations of the Americas:
They're deep-rooted and indigenous.
They had societies founded on freedom, persuasion, and responsibility to the whole.
Their attitudes towards kings blew Europe's minds. pbs.org/native-america…
The video in question. You can clearly see there's a huge logo visible from the street. See, I found this video memorable because GL was falsely claiming authority to arrest its critics in Ukraine.
Units can't arrest critics under Ukrainian martial law, much less an NGO.
A unit, GL is not. HUR made that clear.
Pay attention to dates. GL doesn't get to retcon times they claimed to be in Budanov's chain of command during the very timeframe HUR said Mamuka had no contract.