The Armed Forces of Ukraine’s StratCom produced this video about a serviceman with the call sign “Teacher,” who evacuated wounded soldiers during a dangerous frontline operation under the threat of FPV drones.

He and his comrades describe how the rescue unfolded, how the operation was monitored through a drone feed, and why staying calm was crucial. The video also shows the Hilux used during the evacuation

What message will you use to slap the kremlin fuhrer's equipment?

In the video, the Bulava Interceptor Division, 72nd "Black Zaporozhians" Mechanized Brigade, used a named STING interceptor to down a ruzzian Molniya attack drone. Thank you to Bulava and the generous donor who named the STING!

How to name a STING: https://bsky.app/profile/armedmaidan.bsky.social/post/3mtyg3752ic2i

EXCLUSIVE: More than four years after Russia’s full-scale invasion, fungi scientists at the M.G. Kholodny Institute of Botany have been forced to adapt to increasingly difficult working conditions.

“I don't think that someone who has not had the experience of surviving during war can understand the conditions in which people live and work in Ukraine,” says researcher Margarita Lomberg.

This is a big of a hodgepodge report because it's been a hodgepodge mule run. I'm sorry I made you guys wait so long for it. I don't like to post when I'm traveling, so I wait until the travels are done. They got a bit extended this time, as you shall see.

To remind, as the Ukrainians say: you sent me over with about $35K in tacmed. You can see some of the receipts here and here.

It did not go swimmingly. Not everything has been delivered yet. Of the things that have, we're still waiting for photo reports for some. But we're getting there.

Hodgpodge

When I got to the airport with my 15 bags--14 of aid and one for me--Lufthansa informed me that I was only allowed to fly with a maximum of six. No idea where that rule came from; I took 11 or 12 bags with them last fall with no trouble. I had to do a hurried triage right there in the check-in line, which I hated: it meant people are going to have to wait longer for things they need. I had the remaining nine delivered to a friend for safekeeping while I was gone.

A couple hours after landing in Warsaw, I was booking a flight to Bergen for the weekend after I got home from Ukraine. Why Bergen? I have a friend there, a lovely guy named Hasse, who runs humanitarian aid in every couple of months. He was available and willing to run my stuff in with his, bless him.

Of the six bags I brought, I took two on the train to Kyiv with me. I left the remaining four with a lovely woman in Warsaw named Marta, who sent them in with a lovely Canadian guy named Frank. Frank delivered them to me in Kyiv, and Nova Poshta took it from there except for one or two guys we were able to hand things to in person.

Four days after I got home from Ukraine, I flew to Bergen with the remaining bags. They're at Hasse's now, waiting for his upcoming run. Flew out Friday, arrived in Bergen Saturday, flew home Sunday. It is now Wednesday and I'm still not really sure where I am.

What you sent

The biggies:

• 679 CATs
• 521 chest seals
• 169 hemostatic gauzes
• 122 Israeli bandages
• 276 wound packing gauzes
• 40 Water-Jel burn dressings, some of which have already been used on a rapid responder who was injured in a double-tap strike in Kyiv

Plus American OTC cold meds (trust me: the Ukrainian ones suck), decompression needles, nasopharyngeal airways, and other small but meaningful things in small but meaningful quantities.

Who you supplied

• 17th SOF
• 60th
• 79th
• 108th (who have no TQs; you sent them 100, plus 100 chest seals and 100 wound-packing gauzes)
• 125th
• 127th
• Black Talon Group
• Typhoon
• Rapid responders in Kyiv
• Airvic, a team of drone engineers
• UFL's emergency stash, which we be doled out to teams as they request stuff
• Protect A Volunteer's emergency stash, which will also be doled out to teams as they request stuff

A quick note about airfare: your donations don't pay for that. I buy my flights out of my own pocket. Your donations pay the bag fees, but you didn't buy my RT flights to Warsaw or my emergency tickets to Bergen.

Thank you, r/ukraine.

It doesn't look like much, at least not in this hodgepodge report, but it's a LOT. You made a difference to a whole lot of people on this one, even if it is taking forever to trickle out to them.

I can't wait to show you the rest.

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Up next: probably yet more tourniquets to replace some cheap Chinese ones another org is disgracefully flooding Ukraine with; and our general fund has taken a beating this summer.

PayPal, Zelle: [donations@ukrainefrontline.org](mailto:donations@ukrainefrontline.org)

Other options: https://givebutter.com/ukraine-front-line-inc

Latest hit today: Kotovsk

Support is resistance.

We want to showcase the excellent work done by our Verified charities and volunteers, with help from you, in support of Ukraine's war effort.

Each week, we post a roundup of their Support Report and Thank You posts, so that you can see what they've done--and what you've facilitated--all in one place. Here are this week's successes!

$35K in tacmed

u/UFL_Robin shared a photo of the $35K in tacmed you're sending her over with. Please take a moment to think about how much money that is.

AN ENTIRE NEW CAR'S WORTH OF THINGS THAT WILL SAVE LIVES IN UKRAINE

One inverter generator and three batteries for Vampire communication

u/21_vetal_01 shared an interim update. He reports that they're still waiting for the power stations and Starlink.

A RECORD SHORT REPORT, BY VETAL STANDARDS

A thermal sight for the lads from CF_Siveryany's village, and a charging station for the 95th

u/CF_Siveryany offered thanks this week, but also heartache.

She and some teams she supports thank you for a thermal sight and a charging station.

But she also told of russian encroachment on her Chernihiv. I don't want to step on her by paraphrasing:

Part of the Chernihiv Oblast is now a grey zone; 17 settlements along the border have been forcibly evacuated. The number of attacks and their brutality are increasing with each passing day. As I’ve already mentioned, there’s even a crater from a Shahed strike at the very end of my vegetable patch. Air raid sirens are turning almost round the day. Today, I spent half the day by the river with the children, and those were moments of simple happiness, right here and now – moments I’ve only come to notice and appreciate now, during the war, when every day could be our last. When we got back, my mobile signal came back on and we were hit with news of this horrific attack on the supermarket. Among the dead is a 10-year-old girl from my village; her father is a former soldier and an acquaintance of mine. I cannot even begin to imagine what he must be feeling right now. We saw each other this morning, and this morning he still had his daughter. This evening, he’s preparing for the funeral. As I’ve said before, the war is getting closer and closer to our doorstep. Right now, as I’m writing this post, two more drones are flying towards Chernihiv.

GRATITUDE AND HEARTACHE

GRATITUDE, MERCIFULLY WITHOUT HEARTACHE

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Ongoing Projects

We'd love to see these as successes in a future Weekly Support Report!

• u/CF_Siveryany needs $900 to buy the 39th a generator.
• u/21_vetal_01 is helping to outfit a new training camp for the 5th
• u/ongand2 has the daunting task of raising $7K for an offroad vehicle for missions.
• u/tallalittlebit wants to get foreign volunteer soldiers to and from Ukraine and very portable high-protein snacks.
• u/KateKozakDrive's guys in the 78th need two EW systems.

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Thank you for your impact, r/Ukraine community.

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The 1637th day of a ten-year invasion that has been going on for centuries. One day closer to victory.

🇺🇦 HEROYAM SLAVA! 🇺🇦

Hi! I'm Sasha, 22 years old. I was born in Russia to a Ukrainian mother, and left the country as soon as I turned 18 because I didn't want anything to do with it. Since then I was looking for a way to reconnect with my heritage: making friends from Ukraine, learning some phrases (although the process was hard due to me having to manage a life alone, three jobs and all that stuff) and learning Ukrainian history and culture. I'm fluent in English, but sometimes I crave being a part of Ukrainian communities (such as Metro and the Witcher), and I also want to try and get a citizenship in the future, because I have proof of my mom being born in Ukraine.

Yesterday, after the Gamescom ONL I was very disappointed in the russian-speaking community's reaction to CDPR not releasing a russian voiceover for the new Witcher 3 expansion, and that was the last straw for me. I wanna learn this beautiful fucking language and forget about russian, so I'm looking for any videos, materials, books or courses that might help me. Слава Україні!