Rickshaws for the ZSU, Update 19 (UPDATED)

Hello everybody!

Another quick update on our collections for the ZSU - and then with an ‘add-on-request’.

This update comes a week later than originally planned: ZSU troops we’re supporting thanks to your donations are busy fighting the Russians, and Anastasiia is busy collecting your donations, acquiring, packing and shipping stuff to the ZSU troops. Sorry, but this is simply causing ‘delays’.

Please mind that while you and/or me have the luxury to ‘busy’ ourselves with this war, ‘15 minutes… 1-2-3-… hours a day’: Ukrainians are fighting it ‘24/7’. There is no respite, no meaningful breaks, no difference between day and night. Correspondingly, absence or lack of our updates on developments on the frontlines, even commentary in style like ‘the pace of fighting slowed down’ does not mean the fighting stopped, or there is less need for our support and help: on the contrary! Although meanwhile there is a thaw season in Ukraine, and although the ZSU did manage to slow down - even to reverse - the Russian grinding, there are bitter battles all along the frontline.

That said, THANKS TO YOUR CONTINUED DONATIONS (yes: you all are so kind to donate all the time, no matter if I post an update or not!), our accounts remain well-supplied, and thus Anastasiia was perfectly capable of continuing to supply crucial pieces of equipment to a number of units.

…for example, and between others (and, I guess, this is going to clearly demonstrate just how much are you continuously donating!)…

• The 5th Assault Brigade has received a thermal imager (price was UAH 42,500,—).

• The 153rd Mechanised Brigade (that is: the Electronic Warfare Company of that brigade) has received (another) laptop (price UAH 16,999,—).

• The 103rd TD Brigade received a package of tourniquets.

• The 44th Artillery Brigade has received an Ecoflow charging station. Sorry, there’s no ‘photo-report’, yet.

• The 128th Mountain-Assault Brigade has received a power generator. Sorry, there’s no ‘photo-report’ either: they’re simply too busy.

• The 128th has also requested a car-starter and a laptop: the starter (photo below) was acquired and shipped, the laptop (from a donor in Germany) should follow.

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Anastasiia has received a donation in form of several used tablets, few days ago. She’s posted a related offer within the community of Ukrainian volunteers: and all were away ‘in a matter of minutes’. It turned out that there is an urgent need for tablets and laptops all over the ZSU (even more so since the initiative along which Tablets with the Kropyva ATMS were supplied through the Army SOS Foundation was discontinued).

Thus, as next - and thanks to your donations - she’s aiming to purchase a batch of tablets.

Once again: it’s thanks to your donations, that all of this is possible.

SPECIAL THANKS - from ZSU troops receiving your aid, first and foremost. You are immensely helping them continue fighting!

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For nearly a month now, we’re in on/off contact with both the 3rd Assault Brigade and the 128th Mountain Assault Brigade. Both units would like to acquire additional cars. Problem: both are so busy fighting the Russians, related talks are run on on/off basis, and acquiring cars and then transferring them to the ZSU is meanwhile a particularly complex business in Ukraine (primarily because of the related buerocracy).

While all details haven’t been sorted out, to avoid losing time, Anastasiia is meanwhile on the search for suitable cars. Thus, in this place, I cannot but ask you to be so kind and continue supporting this action: help us get yet more Rickshaws for the ZSU!

Regarding how to donate: for US$, we would prefer transfers to the

IBAN: UA333220010000026200347742354

SWIFT/BIC Code: UNJSUAUKXXX

Receiver: Anastasiia Nakonechna

For Euro:

IBAN: UA553220010000026202349098435

SWIFT/BIC Code: UNJSUAUKXXX

eceiver: Anastasiia Nakonechna

For UAH:

IBAN: UA463220010000026207342800120

IПН/ЄДРПОУ: 3157611891

Post Code: 50012 (Ukraine; this way, you should be able to donate via the Revolut service, too.)

If you must state the purpose of the transfer, enter ‘Charity for Ukraine’, please.

…because transfers to these accounts are making things easier for Anastasiia.

However, we know - from numerous of your e-mails - that European and Ukrainian banks are causing ever bigger problems whenever you attempt to run such transfers. Essentially, along the ‘Basel 1, 2, and 3’ agreements and regulations, any bank involved in wire-transferring money ‘in eastern direction’ is required to prevent money-laundering, transfer of money to Russia etc. Problem: such decisions are taken manually, and many of bank-clerks are simply clueless. Thus, if you’re running a bank-transfer to the above-mentioned account, please enter ‘charity for Ukraine’, or something similar into the line ‘purpose’. That should avoid problems, at least in most of cases.

If not, there’s always the PayPal option (even if this means, we’re losing some money due to the fees):

Paypal: 5266986@gmail.com (Purpose: ‘For Rickshaws’)

(Arguably: Musk has already blocked/deleted accounts of numerous Ukrainian volunteers. But, unless we find some other option, this is the ‘easiest to use’ one.)

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SPECIAL THANKS FOR YOUR CONTINUOUS SUPPORT!