Hello everyone. I am fundraising to get engineering equipment to Ukraine. The fundraiser is currently stuck and I need your help with donating and reposting. The donation link will be in the next post and it is tax deductible in the USA. Here are more details on why this is important: The funding for Ukraine is drying out. Both human and financial resources are scarce. Engineering equipment helps solve both problems. This JCB excavator used by one of the UAF brigades has been destroyed. We provided it two years ago and it cost fifty thousand dollars. The excavator has an engine hours meter, similar to a car odometer. In two years it worked for six thousand four hundred hours. It dug positions for howitzers and for the servicemen of the UAF. Six thousand four hundred hours of digging. It was a perfect workhorse for the brigade. It dug more than two hundred retreats for howitzers and crews, saving tens of millions of dollars of equipment and hundreds of lives of Ukrainian defenders. Unfortunately it was destroyed. Nothing is perfect, but the operator is alive, and with your donations and reposts we can hopefully fund a new machine that will continue saving lives. To translate it into real numbers: 🚜Machine cost: 50,000$ 💸Saved equipment value: 30,000,000$ 💛Lives saved: 50+ I know these numbers sound unbelievable, but they are real. I personally remember many cases when crews shared photos and videos of dugouts after bombardments and how they remained safe inside the bunkers. These excavators are not a simple convenience. They are life saving workhorses that everyone takes for granted. One machine costs from thirty to sixty thousand dollars, and a truck with a crane to transport them costs about the same. 41,000$/120,000$ fundraised If you read this far, please consider donating. The link will be in the next post. ⤵️