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Everyone is welcome but can I ask that you read the current few pages before contributing so you're not sharing something that's already been discussed or sharing old news.

Please do keep the sources of anything posted - helps so people can figure out if it's legit or not.

If you want to say thanks for a post, I agree or send someone love please use the reactions rather than quoting just to say a few words as lots have limited time to read the thread so we try to avoid messages that aren't adding to the conversation.

If you want to just talk about Pres Z he's got a thread here - https://tattle.life/threads/volodymyr-zelenskyy-president-of-ukraine.27822

Don't be offended if your post about helping is deleted and added here, best to have it in one place where people can make an informed choice:


Wladimir Klitschko's links - https://zez.am/act.now.by.klitschko



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.
 
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I am curious to know does putin actually believe people in ukraine are nazis or is that part of the plan?
 
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Yel

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I maybe wrong but I believe the Ukrainian government has been funding some unpleasent far right groups in the separatist areas as it was seen as the best choice to fight the pro-Russian and Russian armed groups. That's probably where the Nazi reference comes from.

But it's been massively exaggerated to claim the whole country are like the far right groups. It's often a lot more complex than good vs bad.

 
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From the UK ministry of defence official Twitter. The current position.

 
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Everything that Miles prick tweets irritates me. He's genuinely enjoying his experience the absolute fuckwit.
 
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Yel

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Everything that Miles prick tweets irritates me. He's genuinely enjoying his experience the absolute fuckwit.
He's spent most of his time posting memes and continuing his hill-a-rious jokes that it's safer than the UK :sleep: . Hasn't really posted much at all, nothing new or interesting and keeps saying he'll post all the stories in a few days - we'll see.

I want him to get stuck out there with no power for selfies.
 
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Everything that Miles prick tweets irritates me. He's genuinely enjoying his experience the absolute fuckwit.
I always wonder about the home situation of people like him 😒 his family must either not care, enable his behaviour and think he’s being a ‘big brave boy’ or be absolutely worried sick every time he puts himself in these situations. If it’s the latter I really feel for them, imagine having a son/brother putting themselves in these situations out of choice, not caring how it affects you and worrying if they’re going to come home each time.
 
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Just watching Sky news and this really stuck with me, from one of their military analysts:

“Last Thursday the world changed. This is like 9/11, like November 1989 when the wall fell. We have entered a new era in the world”.
 
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My take on it is that Putin doesn't care much for the people. I think he's happy for people to suffer because he has his goal and that's that. People who speak out about the regime - jailed. Even children. He's about himself and his own goals. If people get caught up in that along the way then it's collateral damage and he'll accept it. Let's not forget there's Russians living in Ukraine who are falling victim to his actions. I don't think his people matter much to him at all.
 
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Hes lost it ….people like that should not be allowed to be in power when they are such a big threat
I agree, but it's not like here. It's not democratic, it's a dictatorship and it's just not as simple as throwing him out. Those around him are brainwashed, or frightened into submission.
 
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My take on it is that Putin doesn't care much for the people. I think he's happy for people to suffer because he has his goal and that's that. People who speak out about the regime - jailed. Even children. He's about himself and his own goals. If people get caught up in that along the way then it's collateral damage and he'll accept it. Let's not forget there's Russians living in Ukraine who are falling victim to his actions. I don't think his people matter much to him at all.
This a country whose authorities banned some Lego figures from staging a protest ( https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2012/02/15/bureaucrats-block-protesting-lego-men-a12646 ). It's an absolute shiteshow
 
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I maybe wrong but I believe the Ukrainian government has been funding some unpleasent far right groups in the separatist areas as it was seen as the best choice to fight the pro-Russian and Russian armed groups. That's probably where the Nazi reference comes from.

But it's been massively exaggerated to claim the whole country are like the far right groups. It's often a lot more complex than good vs bad.

Zelenskiy, a Jewish man, won the election with 73% of the vote. The far right/pro-Nazi candidate got 1.6%.
Doubt Putain wants that pointed out to ordinary Russians.
 
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The usual heady mix of grains of truth with disinformation, which makes it harder to fact-check. S14/ C14 are one example of a Neo-Nazi and pro-Ukrainian group that's been able to flourish

Edit: adding link to article about the above group https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-...s-its-still-ok-to-call-ukraines-c14-neo-nazi/
Been googling around, and yep it does appear that Ukraine has quite the far right presence. Amnesty International mentions how the far right targets marginalised groups often with "total impunity". Like has been said, there is no point trying to deny groups like Azov exist, especially when we can see how Putin exploits this with misinformation to overstate the influence such far right groups have, let alone have the audacity to say the country needs "de-nazified". I think he's just using this as an excuse, he's hardly had a shining record for human rights, and just wants or tried to expand Russian territory.
 
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Just watching Sky news and this really stuck with me, from one of their military analysts:

“Last Thursday the world changed. This is like 9/11, like November 1989 when the wall fell. We have entered a new era in the world”.
I think that's definitely true, although I think that started in March 2020 and this is just a continuation of that change
 
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Oh dammit Macron stop you're like Khloe with her "revenge body" you'll go crawling back at some point.
 
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