By David Brown
06.30.2014
Translated and edited by Voices of Ukraine

The morning started with some calls from abroad. It started at first with a French newspaper, then Bild from Germany, and four calls from BBC news. I could not understand what kind of nonsense this was, why this fervent interest in our activities: www.narodniy.org.ua/en. It seems there was a very simple reason: an article in The Guardian. Thanks to Oksana for the information.

Our latest plans: we stop being a platform for our own volunteers and open the door to everyone. First, we are planning to work with Roman Sinicyn, Wings Phoenix with his wings, and other well-known, trustworthy volunteers. We are changing our name to “National Centre of Volunteers of Ukraine,” we are building an integrated accountability standard, an automatic system for accepting payment on the site (Privatbank, Skrill, Paypal, Web Money). We are starting to add all the volunteers’ projects, sorted by category.

We are translating the site into English, French, German, and Spanish. We need volunteer translators, creative producers who can make attractive presentations of projects, video operators, and all people who are not indifferent. As long as there is a truce and the Donetsk terrorists keep pouring concrete bunkers, building fortifications, and other barricades, we will prepare a people’s springboard to protect our defenders. Dozens of volunteers are already working on the project, we set the ambitious target of hundreds of people, millions of hryvnia, thousands of helmets, tons of medicines, until a full and uncompromised victory is reached. It does not matter who our commanders are, what kind of fools are on the General Staff, it is important that our boys fight to the last drop of blood, and if they end up wounded in the hospital, that they are discharged and can go back as soon as possible. It is important that the lads understand that the people love them, support them, and value what they are doing for us. Our duty is to support them with all our strength, there are millions of us in the country and that means that at one hryvnia a day, this could turn into 20 million a day.

So believe, that at this price, within a month, our lads will be as well equipped as NATO soldiers. Up to now, we have been deciding about the most important things, jackets, helmets, ground mats, sleeping bags. But we want to move on to technological materials which will significantly improve our soldiers’ capabilities and save hundreds of lives. These include secure means of communication, collimators, thermal imagers, night vision devices, modern targeting sights. That is a LOT of money, but there are a lot of us. According to our figures, the first volunteer contribution made by the first ten volunteers already exceeded 16 million hryvnia. A lot has ALREADY been done.

I am sure that together we can destroy terrorism, completely close the border, rally round, and in the future, rebuild our country. Already today, there are many ideas about how to eliminate the diseased aspects of our country with the power of the people. I am calling on everyone to forget their ambitions, stop criticizing everything around them, clench their fists, and every day ask themselves, “What have I personally done today to help my army?” And please don’t come up with things like, “I pay my taxes, they should finance the army from them.” Those days have gone, there are different principles at work, we must win, and then we can have a debriefing. We are not vindictive, we are just angry with a good memory. 🙂

PS. I will be grateful for any repost, it is possible that the right person will see it and we will gain a capable volunteer.

Source: David Brown FB