New Year’s greetings from the Solidarity Collectives

January 1, 2025
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We are on the threshold of the new year 2025. It’s time to take stock of 2024, another year of challenges and achievements.

Achievements of 2024

💶 Financial support

We have significantly increased our support for anti-authoritarian fighters compared to 2023:

€225,000+ spent on requests from fighters

82,000+ euros raised through targeted collections

🚗 Key requests’ coverage

Thanks to your contributions and our joint work, we managed to send to the frontline:

10 electronic warfare systems

12 detectors for protection against FPV drones

5 vehicles

2 vacuum wound therapy devices

Mavic drones, charging stations, night vision devices, specialised equipment, etc.

⚙️ The work of the FPV workshop

Our FPV drone workshop has become an important element of our activities this year:

Delivered 113 FPV drones to the military

Expanded international networking by cooperating with workshops in the Czech Republic and other initiatives (Solidrones and Resistance Support Club)

🤝 Humanitarian aid

Our humanitarian department was active in the frontline and affected regions of Eastern Ukraine:

Provided communities and hospitals in Donetsk, Kharkiv and Sumy oblasts with household appliances, food parcels, specialised items, medicine and pet food.

Heavy losses

Unfortunately, 2024 took from us comrades who gave their lives in the struggle against Russian imperialism:

Vladyslav ‘Pirat’ Yurchenko, Ruslan ‘Srypal’ Tereshchenko, Roman ‘Isus’ Legara, Yuriy ‘Tovarysh’ Lebedev.

Members of the Kharkiv punk rock collective Kharkiv Hardcore – Igor and Anton.

We express our deepest condolences to their families, friends and loved ones. Their contribution will always be remembered.

Regarding 2025

We do not know how events will unfold in 2025. But there is no doubt that our work will continue. We will continue to support our comrades in the army, help the affected civilians, participate in the reconstruction and do our best to live in a free country where the ideas and practices of mutual aid, and social justice together with direct political action would shape the social life we envision.

Best wishes for the New Year,

Solidarity Collectives

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