February 2022 Russia started another military invasion. This time in Ukraine.
After two month of war there is barely any war crime Russian troops haven't commited. Massacre, torture and rape are not accidental cases but their systematic strategy. Russian millitary bomb whole cities to ashes and trying to eliminate as much of infrastructure in Ukraine as possible. Seeing the population of Ukraine purely as a ressource or distortion Russia commit forced mobilizations and mass deportations on the occupied territories of Ukraine. Decades of warmongering and propaganda of Russian superiority and dehumanizing of Ukrainians wasn't only the rhetorics. This is a genocide.
Some of us have direct contact to Ukraine and some not. When the war was started we started to help our friends there, coordinate and end up having a horizontal network to provide help and ressources to the people in Ukraine. We are organizing transport for the refugees and helping to find accomodation, delivering medicaments and other supplies. Keeping contact with the people and organizations on the ground we receiving requests and trying to fulfill them. We are working as volunteers and trying to keep a request-fulfillment chain as short as possible avoiding bureacracy and endless planning meetings. We are not charity and we don't want to repeat any kind of narratives about poor victims, imposing our frameworks and visions on how the help and even how local activities should look like.
Despite conspiracy theorists and self fixated western ''analysts' the main reason why Russian Blitzkrieg failed is the resistance of the people in Ukraine itself. Even if the main actor at the frontline is an army, big part of it is a decentralized network of volunteers and grass roots activists of any kind. We are trying to provide the ressources and strenghten horizontal networks supporting the multitude of survival and resistance strategies of the people in Ukraine. Most of us have some kind of an anti-atoritarian background and what we are doing clearly conforms with our views.
Our initiative is based on personal and horizontal connections. We don't see us in any kind of competition with other fundraiser and groups and believe that a bigger network of small initiatives can be effective and more sustainable on the longer term.
U could support us with donations and sharing our links. If u want to participate or want to share some ideas, please contact us via email.