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If you want to help Ukraine, here is a list of the largest volunteer funds you can donate to:

Come Back Alive - delivered the first deep-strike drones https://savelife.in.ua/en/

Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation - bought the famous spy satellite https://prytulafoundation.org/en

KOLO Charity Foundation - run by the Ukrainian tech community https://www.koloua.com/en/

Razom - US-based foundation https://www.razomforukraine.org/donate/

Canada-Ukraine Foundation - Canadian NGO, organizes winter aid for civilians https://www.cufoundation.ca/

Ukrainian World Congress https://www.ukrainianworldcongress.org/

Exen - Polish volunteer who delivers used vehicles to the front https://pomagam.pl/4x4dlaukrainy

United24 - the government fund https://u24.gov.ua/

Blue/Yellow - Lithuanian NGO supplying the Ukrainian military https://blue-yellow.lt/en/

Stopify - Latvian initiative, donations collected via Ziedot.lv https://stopify.org.ua/

Weapons to Ukraine - Czech initiative https://weaponstoukraine.com/en

Help99 - from Estonia's LIFT99 startup hub, convoys refitted trucks and drones to the front https://www.help99.co/donate

Aktion Deutschland Hilft - German humanitarian aid https://www.aktion-deutschland-hilft.de/

Thanks to everyone who suggested additions. Please keep adding foundations from your country in the comments.

Blue Yellow - a Lithuanian NGO supplying the Ukrainian military: https://blue-yellow.lt/en/ (you can specify the purpose for which you are donating, e.g. drones)

Since the very start, they already raised over €121 million.

If in doubt - pick Come Back Alive. They have spotless reputation and invest into long-term projects such as military education and veteran sports/aid.

Don't you want to target short term projects directly aimed at ending the russian threat first? Long term only matters if you make it there...

Come Back Alive was founded around 2014 and has operated continuously since. This is a conflict where long-term investments pay off. Also not saying they and others don't do short-term keep-up work - they do. But it's also important to develop education facilities and care for veterans.

That's what people at most other foundation thought in 2022, yet here we're in 2026, and the war is still going.

And to be fair not all Come back alive projects are long term, they provide cars, cables, laptops, portable power stations etc., but these do not engage public enough, so their media team focuses on more interesting projects.

What "long term" means is also differs, they put a lot of effort into their training centers, but now the training cycle of one person is several months (I assume, I don't know exact terms), which is not that long.

Yes, I think they are the best. They have strong expertise (for example they were commissioned to conduct studies by Ministry of Defense of Ukraine) and excellent accountability (some is public [0]).

In my eyes one of their highpoints which demonstrates their trustworthiness is the ~20 million dollars payment they received this year by undisclosed European (I think it was European) entity (government or private donors maybe)

[0] https://savelife.in.ua/en/reporting-en

I think Taras Chmut(head of Come Back Alive) mentioned that they got a ~20 million donation from the undisclosed European governments

I have done a lot of work with KOLO Foundation - run by the Ukrainian tech community https://www.koloua.com/en/

Including KOLO dispersing medical equipment that I donated, and I can vouch that they are effective and very efficient.

If I can add one, this Canadian NGO is also organizing winter aid efforts for Ukrainian civilians: https://www.cufoundation.ca/

And this group: https://www.ukrainianworldcongress.org/

Thank you, updated

Thank you for posting this! I regularly donate through United24.

Also, Czech initiative https://weaponstoukraine.com/en and 69th Sniffing Brigade https://www.help99.co/donate is doing awesome work.

Glory to the Heroes!

Stopify - https://stopify.org.ua/ A charity initiative created by a group of communication specialists and supporters of Ukraine. Legally the donations are collected by a well-known and experienced charity organization, Ziedot.lv, based in Riga, Latvia. All funds go towards purchasing necessary supplies for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, based on their requests to the Embassy of Ukraine in Latvia.

Humanitarian aid initiative in Germany: https://www.aktion-deutschland-hilft.de/de/hilfseinsaetze/no...

Razom is awesome. Donated to them for many years, went to their events. 100% recommended.

Imagine waking up and thinking: Today I want to fund a war out of my own pocket since my taxes being sent to the most corrupt country on the continent aren't enough.

Hermit life was the best decision I ever made. Never going back.

Imagine waking up and thinking: We should not help with the defense of a nation that was attacked by a totalitarian dictatorship, because some of their politicians are corrupt.

Defense against aggressive totalitarianism is much more important than fight against corruption. And there is also the fact that Russian influence is the main reason for corruption in Ukraine..

Yeah, the war on terror was also fought on such grounds. It just cost most of the west a few Trillions of dollars and freedoms while having caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of dead muslims, crippled and mentally ill veterans and the "evil people" are still in charge 20 years later - only that it turned out they had nothing to do with what was used as a pretence for this war on terror.

You're just regurgitating the vocabulary fed to you by propaganda. Good luck though.

So we should never fight against evil, because some of the wars in the past caused more harm than good? That does not make sense.

For every "war on terror", I can point to WW2, Korean War, First Gulf War, Intervention in Serbia, where the good guys won and the world is better for it.

You are the propagandized one. Russia wants you to not resist their imperialism, just because the west made some mistakes in the past. You have fallen for their manipulation strategy hook, line, and sinker.

If you think in terms of "evil", you don't know your history. I'm out.

Aggressive totalitarianism is evil. If we cannot agree on such basic thing, further discussion is indeed pointless.

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