Trip to the ATO Zone from September 12, 2015

Dear friends, it’s very hard to put everything together, but I’ll try to tell everything and give thanks to all and all of you who has joined this enormous trip across Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts. The report will be very long and it has taken me a long time to write it.
 
The trip was very hard for the guys this time, as all the points where the units are being located were scattered over a great distance from each other, roads are awful, but despite the difficulties our Taras and Serhii have covered a hard distance as usual and come back home. Not without adventure, though, because our trusty steed that had been given to us by Stepan and Natalia Valko began moping a bit, couldn’t sustain the load, and refused to show at least a few signs of life. The guys got cold and wet, they were sitting cold and hungry amidst the road, the van’s roof has holes in it after the winter accident, we hadn’t a possibility to fix it, so the guys soaked to the skin. Yet, for such cases, we always have loyal friends among you all. Sania and Vikulia Kononovs, thank you for saving our guys from hunger, cold and danger. You rushed to help, as usual, and the guys came back by train, by two trains, to be exact, ‘cause there was a problem with tickets. However, all’s well that ends well.
 
Our guys’ tour was more than difficult this time, 11 points including the hospital in Kurakhovo.
 
Thanks to you, we managed to assist and provide 11 units of soldiers directly at the frontline with the following:
 

• The 43rd brigade (artillery) have received a weathervane stand under meteostation worth ₴3 890, a chain saw and grease worth almost ₴2 000.

 

• The 72nd brigade – NVDs – ₴5 028 (delivered to the guys a bit earlier), they have received 3 radio sets Motorola TLKR80 worth ₴5 465,97, good uniforms and combat boots from Oleksandr Martyniuk and Viktoriia Naumenko, another pair of combat boots from Oleksandr Petrenko, cigarettes from Taras Kostjuk, different delicious Italian yummies from Iryna Krykun and her team, apples and dogwood from my uncle Sasha, patties and tomatoes from Olena and Andrii Sakuns, and batteries from Andrii Myshastyi and Volunteer 22.

 

• The guys from the 1039 have received 2 tents, cigarettes, patties and apples for a total of ₴1 900.

 

• The 501st air assault company have received 9 silencers 5.45 of the total cost of ₴10 800, and 7 plates (shortened vests under armored plates) of the total cost of ₴6 755.

 

• The 56th brigade have received 1 stove from Oleksandr Martyniuk and his team «Varta ta Zakhyst», 7 seat-roll mats – ₴330, NVDs – ₴5 028, a binocular – ₴960, a combat vest from Oleksandr Martyniuk, construction film, different delicious stuff from Ukrainians in Italy, patties, cigarettes, tableware, a camouflage net, and many different necessary things for daily life at the frontline.

 

• The 56th brigade of the 21st battalion, 3rd company, have received a chain saw and grease for it – ₴1 613, 5 raincoats – ₴850, as well as cigarettes, apples and Italian yummies, sleeping bags.

 

• National Guard (for some reason we don’t mention the unit for the guys’ safety) – have received assistance for a total of ₴25 790 including: tableware – basins, galvanized buckets, dried fuel, a VVF cable, torches, socket and plug sets, lamp holders, surge protectors with 5 sockets, carbines and a cord, staple gun, splitting and ordinary axes, spades round- and square-pointed shovels, staples, a multitool knife, working and warm gloves, a heat-treated cable, screwdrivers, lubricants WD-40, construction nails 100-150, roll mats, construction film, balaclavas, tactical gloves, tactical flashlight, a chain saw and grease, a tactical rucksack, a tactical camouflage, NVDs, raincoats, a compass, seat-roll mats, means for hygiene, an active and passide headset, a camouflage net from Olha Kovalchuk and the girls from a school in Troieshchyna, a camouflage suit, SICH tourniquets, 2 stoves, sleeping bags, a barrel with self-heating, yummies, cigarettes, and many other necessary things for the guys’ daily life as well as boards from Nataliia Parii, cross necklaces, icons and phylactery belts from Hryhorii Khyzhniak.

 

• The 26th brigade have received a chain saw and grease to it, yummies, patties, tableware and apples, for a total of ₴2 200.

 

• The 54th brigade have received a thermal imaging camera, given to us by the guys after they ended their service, and now it’s also I good hands, 2 binoculars (₴2 610), radio sets Motorola (₴1 822), yummies, cigarettes, and many other necessary little things.

 

• The 28th brigade have received a sight Crossman Centerpoint and a side bar worth ₴5 400, maps from Map Hundred, vegetables, yummies, cigarettes and other.

 

• To the hospital in Kurakhovo, we’ve brought a big quantity of medications from Ukrainians in Italy and Iryna Krykun and medications, we’ve been collecting here gradually.

 

To unload our guys a bit, some units were coming to us to Kyiv to take the things bought for them, and to some soldiers and commanders we know very well we’ve sent the things by post, because our Taras and Serhii would otherwise have to spend one or even two weeks at the frontline.
 

• The 54th intelligence battalion (Taran) has received 10 medikits with medications that Hotsa and Blahii assisted us with; tactical gloves, 4 radio sets Motorola – ₴7 288, a binocular – ₴1 650, NVDs – ₴5 028, a tactical holster, one more binocular, an infrared lamp for boosting NVDs, and an army rucksack from Rostyslav Hotsa, and 2 camouflage nets from Olha Kovalchuk and the girls from a school in Troieshchyna having eagerly given them to us. The tyres for the battalion’s car were bought and handed over to them earlier accounting for ₴6 044.

 

• The 93rd brigade have received tactical holsters, tactical gloves, knee pads and elbow pads worth ₴2 360.

 

• The 25th brigade (medics) have received a rucksack worth ₴555.

 

• The 53rd brigade have received a tablet with maps worth ₴1 680, a camouflage suit – ₴350, and 5 pairs of tactical gloves – ₴1 420.

 

• The 19th armored infantry battalion have received tactical gloves and a tactical holster worth ₴790.

 

• The 208th air defense missile brigade have received a tablet with maps, radio sets, SICH tourniquets, hemostatic sponges and bandages. The cost is ₴4 246.

 

• For the soldiers from the counterintelligence corps the following was purschased: a collimator sight – ₴2 400, a bar – ₴450, combat boots ₴1 600, NVDs (previously used) – ₴1 800, silencers 5,45 – ₴1 200, a silencer 7,62 – ₴1 100, 7 pairs of tactical gloves – ₴1 988.

 
THE COST OF THE TRIP WITHOUT THE COST OF A THERMAL IMAGING CAMERA AND SOME THINGS I FORGOT OF 100%, ACCOUNTS FOR ₴107 677,00.
 
Many thanks to everyone for assistance, the major costs forthis trip were given to us by Volodymyr Bartash and his company Worldwide Manufacturing, E.D. – ₴63 995,00, «HALKA» Trade House – ₴23 100, Olena and Volodymyr Shepels – ₴4 000, PB LOTOS – ₴3 000, $600 from Tania and Alex Мatsuka Rueb, Olha Tkachenko – ₴5 000, PB Soiuz Atlant – ₴3 200, Iryna Krykun – €60, and all and all of you who always donates funds to our bank card. Unfortunately, I can’t mention everyone, because some of you don’t write your surnames, but I’ll do it partially: Nataliia Solodukha, Andrii Popov, Oleksandra Persikova, Lesia and Roman Torishchaks, Ivan Tkachuk, Alla Skiba, Nastia Osachenko, and all the others who join us and don’t remain indifferent to our common deed.
 
The other thanks to our constant assistants Oleh Nazarchuk and Oleh Kalinichenko, they’ve assisted us with funds of ₴8 000, we’ve used them to cover a part of the debt for SICH tourniquets, and, in addition, they constantly assist us with stationery and personally join deliveries and sendings, assist with transport and loading the car before the trip.
 
The other special thanks to Vadym and online-store «PRAPORSHCHYK» for the helmets provided for our guys for rent for the trip.
 
In addition, thanks a million to the KLO gas station network, always assisting us with fuel and being the only and unchanging sponsors of our «TOURS TO THE EAST».
 
Many thanks to Olesia Stuzhuk and the team of charming ladies for paracord bracelets for soldiers.
 
P.S. I PROUDLY TELL ALL OF YOU, THE SUM LEFT ON OUR ACCOUNT IS ₴7 600.
We can start working with new lists of needs beginning on Monday and plan the new trip, so join us, let’s multiply this sum and provide our soldiers, as they’re waiting for our joint support.