Reddit is a massive social and news aggregation site. It’s composed of thousands of topic-specific forums called subreddits. Subreddits, or “subs”, are overseen by volunteer moderators, or “mods”, who maintain community content standards. Fundraising for this round of winter gear was a collaborative effort between UFL and the r/Ukraine subreddit community. To you redditors who …

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Simply put: volunteers need vehicles. Our partner Mykola is no exception. The Armed Forces of Ukraine and volunteers like Mykola both rely heavily on civilian vehicles for logistics, deliveries, medical evacuations, and reconnaissance and assault operations. In a perfect world, these would be carried out in armored vehicles. This is not a perfect world. The …

Needed: Wheels Read More »

To Americans who have never experienced war on their own soil and are accustomed to having a well-supplied military, what we do is strange. With the US, NATO, the EU, and friendly countries around the world backing Ukraine, why do groups like Ukraine Front Line work to supply Ukrainian soldiers? To Ukrainians, the diaspora, and …

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Ukraine Front Line, Inc., a registered 501(c)(3) providing lifesaving supplies to Ukrainian troops, haspartnered with Texas native Presley Duyck to produce an emotional performance of Ukraine’s NationalAnthem to demonstrate Western solidarity with Ukraine and its continued fight for freedom. By: Steven Watford and Robin Rohrback After a rocky start, they found Presley Duyck at the …

American Singer Presley Duyck Performs Ukrainian National Anthem Read More »

Mykola, our partner in Kyiv, raised funds through his own channels to purchase and deliver battery-powered demolition hammers to a brigade positioned on particularly stubborn ground in a location we cannot disclose. Aware that the troops have seen hard fighting and too little R&R, he started thinking about what kind of pick-me-up to deliver along …

Dispatch from Mykola: Burgers and Demolition Hammer Read More »

Think you can’t make a direct impact on the war in Ukraine?Think again. Grassroots campaigns may seem ineffective compared to large organizations like the American Red Cross, but this couldn’t be further from the truth. Volunteer-based groups like Ukraine Front Line (UFL) are an outgrowth of Ukrainian civil society’s proud tradition of stepping up in …

Grassroots – the backbone of Ukraine Read More »

The following message comes to you directly from Viktor Pylypenko, a Ukrainian soldier fighting in the Luhansk region: Friends, thank you for worrying about me! I’m fine, I’m alive and well. We are in the Luhansk region. Yes, it’s hard here, many losses. The Russian army traditionally destroys everything with artillery – they erase entire …

A message from Viktor Read More »