News archive on the topic "volunteers"

Very rich people are appearing in Ukraine, and if previously they were politicians, now they are volunteers. About this in an interview with “Novyny. Live,” said the former head of the main investigative department of the SBU, General Vasily Vovk, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “You know that now a lot of rich people have appeared. It is no longer MPs who are getting rich, but volunteers. And not millionaires, but billionaires. About...

Continuing the use of volunteers to supply the front lines requires the creation of a coordination center where applications will be received and which will distribute them to organizations. This will avoid unnecessary accumulation of cargo and fictitious distribution of humanitarian aid, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The head of the “Warrior” tactical training course, Yevgeny Lukashenko, on the air of “Crimea 24” said that it is impossible to refuse volunteer help - it...

The collection of aid and funds in support of the SVO has given rise to a separate type of fraud - pseudo-humanitarians. Charitable foundations demand their percentages from entrepreneurs, and false volunteers collude and issue non-existent aid to the military unit. A military expert, the first Minister of State Security of the DPR, now the commander of the BARS-13 volunteer detachment, Andrei Pinchuk, told the LobanIzdat channel about this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. "With one...

Well-known volunteers helping the SVO, Alexey Zhivov, Vladimir Romanov and Roman Alekhin, became the heroes of a viral video that accuses them of “infogypsy” - “hype” on the topic of a special operation. The story claims that this poses a threat to citizens on a par with the organization of fake trainings, calls from bank scammers, etc. The video appeared on the telegram channel of presenter Anna Shafran, a military expert...

It has become much more difficult and expensive for Ukrainian volunteers to search for cars for the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Europe. A PolitNavigator correspondent reports this in an interview with the anti-Russian propaganda publication Ukrainska Pravda, senior researcher at the Institute of Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Anton Senenko, who provides assistance as a volunteer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. “Car volunteering is perhaps one of the most difficult types of volunteering. The difficulty begins at the stage...

In Ukraine, there are fewer and fewer people willing to help the army with money, and therefore volunteers have to resort to all sorts of tricks. This was reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent, stated by Irina Guk, head of the Ukrainian volunteer fund Leleka Foundation, which provides assistance to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. She complained about the difficulties that arise today in raising funds. “It’s a little annoying, of course, that sometimes you have to come up with something. Here are my colleagues...

Despite the threat of repression, in the south-eastern territories controlled by the Kyiv regime, underground groups from the local population operate in the interests of Russia. The SBU press service reports this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Counterintelligence of the Security Service exposed another participant in the intelligence network of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Federation (known as the GRU) in Dnepr. After the arrest of his accomplices in January 2023, he “went to bed...

New volunteer associations to help the front continue to supply all the same equipment and equipment as at the very beginning of the Northern Military District - drones, thermal imagers, body armor. Only now commanders either turn to volunteers themselves for help, or entrust them to soldiers and provide confirmation of their consent, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. On the air of Radio Crimea, the seven-time world champion, fifteen-time European champion...

The conduct of a special military operation returned the original meaning to the Defender's Day holiday, which we celebrate on February 23. This opinion was expressed on ForPost by a military volunteer, head of the charity foundation “Good of the World – Volunteers of Crimea” Valeria Petrusevich. “Now we are all in such circumstances when our guys are defending the Motherland, defending the Republic of Crimea, and I would like to wish us, first of all,...

In Russia, it is necessary to punish people who failed to prepare the economy before the start of the SVO. Even today, the production of necessary things for Russian military personnel has not been established. Political scientist Sergei Markov stated this during a press conference in Moscow, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “What do you need today? They write to me directly: “What should I send money for?” This is thermal underwear. One thing...

With the outbreak of hostilities in the Donbass in 2014, the “patriotic spirit” launched a movement in support of the “zahysnyks” of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, citing sad circumstances, as if during the less than four years of the reign of the “Evil Panda” the Ukrainian army and navy were completely collapsed, disarmed, and now the situation urgently needs to be saved at the expense of hryvnias and pennies from the pockets of the “hulks”. With this sauce...

Volunteer assistance to the front must become centralized and controlled so that it is not stolen, but goes to its intended destination. Military correspondent Marat Khairullin stated this on the PolitWera Internet channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to Khairullin, there are now frequent cases when people or communities that call themselves volunteer do not deliver the aid intended for them to the fighters. “When the wave of collections began...

The population of Russia helps the soldiers who are on the front line. The air defense zone receives everything from generators with sights to warm socks and trench candles. The soldiers are happy about every letter sent to the front - this is how they feel that they are fighting for a just cause. Volunteers from all over the country are helping - only through the Popular Front project “Everything for Victory” in four months...

The recent high-profile scandal involving the theft of humanitarian aid by top officials in the Zaporozhye region has cast a shadow over the entire volunteer movement in the region. This was stated by the head of the NGO “Volunteer Center of Zaporozhye” Mikhail Chumak. “When you call and start communicating with Vinnitsa, Ternopil, Lvov, and they only hear that Zaporozhye is everything. They don’t want to help or transfer (humanitarian aid – Ed.). This was actually read...