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Maybe all links to support can be on this first page so anyone asking can read here? I can update this post with the links

Everyone is welcome but can I ask that people read the last couple of pages before contributing so that the same thing we've already started talking about isn't posted as new news. Thanks


Charities that help the war effort

  • Save Life: This NGO crowdfunds non-lethal military equipment, such as thermal vision scopes & supplies it to the Donbas front lines. It also provides training for Ukrainian soldiers, as well as researching troops’ needs and social reintegration of veterans.
  • Donbas SOS: This organization helps those who live in the Donbas war zone, those who relocated to other parts of Ukraine, and freed prisoners of war. It offers legal support, accommodation assistance, and psychological aid among other things.
  • Crimea SOS: This organization has been helping internally displaced people from Crimea since Russia occupied the peninsula in 2014. It documents Russian authorities' repressions against Crimeans and advocates for the end of the occupation.
  • Hospitallers : This is a medical battalion that unites volunteer paramedics and doctors to save the lives of soldiers on the frontline. They crowdfund their vehicle repairs, fuel, and medical equipment.
Charities that help children

  • Tabletochki: This foundation has been supporting children with cancer for 10 years. They procure medicines, equipment, and arrange overseas treatment, among other things.
  • ChildrenWeWillMakeIt: This movement grew out of a campaign that raised $2 million to get the world's most expensive medicine for a Ukrainian boy with spinal muscular atrophy. It now fundraises for the treatment of other Ukrainian children with SMA.
  • Ruka ob Ruku: This is a running club for children with disabilities. The initiative gives children an opportunity to train and take part in races together with their parents and volunteers.
Charities for the elderly

  • Happy Old: This charity provides older people across Ukraine with groceries and medicine, holds educational, entertainment, and sports events, as well as helps with employment. They even created a modeling agency for the elderly.
  • Let's Help: This charity cares for older people living alone and helps state retirement homes. They also advocate for better treatment of older people by the state, including providing people aged 60+ with easy access to education.
  • Starenki: It’s a charitable initiative devoted to issues of old age in Ukraine. They help lonely seniors by providing them with groceries and hygiene products.
Charities that help women

  • Women Perspectives: This organization has been helping women who have faced domestic violence, discrimination in the labor market, and other issues. The NGO works with local and state authorities to promote pro-equality gender policies in Ukraine.
  • Marsh Zhinok (Women’s March): Every year, on March 8, this initiative holds a rally promoting gender equality and the protection of women from gender-based violence. Currently, the organization is petitioning for Ukraine to adopt the Istanbul Convention.
Charities for blood donation

  • Blood Agents: It is an NGO that promotes regular, conscious and gratuitous blood donations. They have encouraged people to donate blood over 5,000 times over the past six years.
  • Donor UA: It is an automated system for recruiting and managing blood donors, designed to promote the donor movement in Ukraine. You can help by signing up and donating blood or by supporting the project with money donation.
Charities for animals

  • Sirius: Is the largest shelter for stray animals in Ukraine established in 2000. Its capacity is over 3,000 animals. The institution crowdfunds for animal feed, veterinary drugs, construction and repair of enclosures, and other needs.
  • Happy Paw: Is a charity dedicated to solving the problems of homeless animals in Ukraine. The charity helps owners find lost animals, sterilizes domestic animals of people in need & holds lectures on humane treatment of homeless animals for schoolchildren.
  • UAnimals: Is a movement for protecting animals from exploitation & abuse. The organization managed to achieve a ban on animal circuses & persuaded many designers participating in Ukrainian Fashion Week to abandon natural fur.
Charities for the environment

  • Ukraine Without Waste: It is a Ukrainian non-profit promoting the practice of sorting household waste. They educate companies on how to go green at their offices, and hold lectures for the wider public.
  • Laska: It’s a chain of two charity stores in Kyiv that promote conscious shopping. They accept donated clothes, resell 15% of them, and send the rest to orphanages, homes for the elderly and centers for people with disabilities.
Charities for the homeless

  • Help the homeless: This initiative supports homeless people & the elderly in need, by providing them with free meals, medicine, hygiene products, clothes & shoes. Launched by a group of volunteers in 2016, the organization has been relying on crowdfunding.
  • Suka Zhizn: This organization grew big from a 2017 Instagram account launched to tell stories of homeless people. Now volunteers provide various support to the homeless: employment, sorting out documents, searching for relatives & legal counseling.
Charities for investigative journalism

  • Slidstvo: Is an independent agency launched in 2012 that produces award-winning documentaries exposing corruption. They have investigated mismanagement of prisons, fraud, money laundering at PrivatBank & the assassination of journalist Sheremet.
  • UKRPravda News: Founded in 2000 by Gongadze, a prominent journalist who was killed the same year, this publication is among the most influential in Ukraine. The reporters break political scoops and unmask officials who abuse their power.
  • Zaborona Media: This is an independent media outlet founded by journalists. They investigate topics such as violations of Ukrainian workers’ rights in the Middle East, arms trafficking, and corruption in the construction sector.
Charities that preserve Ukrainian cultural heritage

  • Parkhomivka Museum: The museum, located in a small village in eastern Kharkiv Oblast, is an 18th-century villa that offers a permanent collection of exhibits by artists as iconic as Picasso, Malevich & Manet. You can support it by coming & buying a ticket.
  • Save Kyiv Modernism: Is a movement that unites architects, designers and activists who advocate for the protection of the remarkable Soviet modernist structures across Ukraine.
  • FrankivskToCareAbout: Is a movement for the preservation of architectural heritage in the western city of Ivano-Frankivsk. Founded in 2016, the initiative renovates old wooden doors of the city's ancient buildings.
Charities helping with covid

  • Svoyi: Svoyi gives free oxygen concentrators to people who contracted COVID & can’t be hospitalized due to personal circumstances or when hospitals are overflowing. It also helps those discharged too early in favour of patients in more serious conditions.
  • Monsters, Inc.: This organization is based in Odesa and provides emergency medical aid to people living in the region. They also help COVID hospitals, procuring medicines and equipment.
 
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Why couldn’t we have guaranteed that NATO wouldn’t extend further than Germany in the first place? That’s what Putin wanted. I don’t trust America at all.
Why should Germany, or indeed any EU country accede to Putin's demands? Nations witnessing his actions in Georgia/South Ossetia, the downing of a passenger aircraft, his Crimean invasion, Salisbury poisonings, Litvinenko, Navalny, treatment of gays forced into "education camps", Donbas etc etc would rightly be alarmed. There should be no way that such nations accede to fascist dictatorships.
 
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Did anyone see the guy speaking on the BBC news? Didn’t catch his name but he’s written several books about Russian politics and Russian Ukraine relations. He reckons Putin is foaming at the mouth at the resistance in Ukraine and that he is deluded enough to believe the troops would be welcomed with “bread and salt”. He also said the Russian troops don’t want to be there and are abandoning their uniforms at the roadside. He thinks if Hungary buckle and agree to the swift sanctions the backlash on Putin will be huge and Russia will really feel the effects. All of that sounds hopeful but I don’t know, for every plane Ukraine shoot down they have a thousand more waiting to attack so I hope they can hold on.
 
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China relies very very heavily on the west. Basically we bankroll China with everything being made there. Several industries are already moving out of China and they have their own issues as well. The last thing they will do is fight Russia’s war.
China relies on a powerful west to create a powerful China, they will never piss off countries that can ruin their economy within a matter of days.
 
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I’m watching Sky News at the moment and they’ve just said a Russian cargo ship has been seized in the English Channel.
 
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I posted this link at the end of the previous thread, this organisation is at the Ukraine border and is helping 1 displaced family every 10 minutes, supporting them is really putting your money where it is making a difference.
 
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I don't know if this has been posted, but this video offers a brief overview of the crisis. I found it very informative...and this presenter is absolutely awesome. Wish we could swap Susannah Reid for her.

"Past-imperialism cannot excuse present-day expansionism".

 
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China abstaining I think it’s just so they can look neutral. They know if they actively side with Russia we could sanction them. They can’t be trusted either.
 
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China abstaining I think it’s just so they can look neutral. They know if they actively side with Russia we could sanction them. They can’t be trusted either.
They'll choose their side when they know who is winning and have assesses how powerful the west and nato really are
 
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I was writing a reply to @CallieLallie as the thread closed, so from the last, regarding Putin potentially being angry over France snaffling Russian cargo in the Channel:

Nothing to apologise for ❤
He's definitely going to be unhappy but he's becoming more and more isolated, a pariah, with even his allies backing away. And yes, while some in Russia support him (for whatever reason) there's many who don't.
EU is showing they will follow through on their sanctions. For the EU, Ukraine isn't merely a country that's having something terrible happening, it's on their doorstep, for their own sake (if nothing else), they have to follow through.
I have no doubt Putin watching last year in Afghanistan smirked to himself, thinking that the West, while they might squawk and squeal, don't do very much in the way of action. This shows him that yes, yes they will do something.
He can rage, but the hill he's on is crumbling.

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China abstaining I think it’s just so they can look neutral. They know if they actively side with Russia we could sanction them. They can’t be trusted either.
China has been known to do what they want in these circumstances. It’s a huge thing that they stepped back as permanent members of the security council. People keep saying the UN does nothing. The UN did a lot. This is an absolute nightmare for Putin. No one wants to be seen supporting him as no one wants to be on the wrong side of the US and Europe. Also China stepping back sends a message to all those European countries who started to sort of pull towards the east more. This is pretty important. Also imagine Putin being pressured by his own people and now not even being able to say that he still has allies that publicly back him.
 
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The west in general has been seen as quite weak in the last decade or so. All talk and no action. Which while all well and good, its in situations like these that it's really being tested to see if they are still the force they once were. If Russia fails and the west unites, I'd say China is less likely to go into Taiwan
 
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I was writing a reply to @CallieLallie as the thread closed, so from the last, regarding Putin potentially being angry over France snaffling Russian cargo in the Channel:

Nothing to apologise for ❤
He's definitely going to be unhappy but he's becoming more and more isolated, a pariah, with even his allies backing away. And yes, while some in Russia support him (for whatever reason) there's many who don't.
EU is showing they will follow through on their sanctions. For the EU, Ukraine isn't merely a country that's having something terrible happening, it's on their doorstep, for their own sake (if nothing else), they have to follow through.
I have no doubt Putin watching last year in Afghanistan smirked to himself, thinking that the West, while they might squawk and squeal, don't do very much in the way of action. This shows him that yes, yes they will do something.
He can rage, but the hill he's on is crumbling.

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Thank you so much for this information. 💗
 
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My fear is what will Putin do when he loses? I can’t see him admitting defeat at any costs… his ego is far too big!
 
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I know Ukraine are fighting alone but I honstley love the fact everyone is rallying around and sending supplies and weapons ect. Day 3 and Russia haven't successfully took over the capital I hope this continues
 
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In all of the awfulness, there is something about the world uniting that actually warms my heart a bit. Plus the bravery of Ukraine refusing to be beaten.

After so much division, some unity. Just heartbreaking it's taken this to do it
 
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