By "civilian anti-air defense", I really do mean civilian: the volunteers are only volunteering to do anti-air defense, and are not considered soldiers. They're entirely unpaid, and other than the guns and ammo, the Ukrainian government doesn't provide any funding. Everything else they have they have to pay for themselves or fundraise.
I got in touch with them because I used the $LADA memecoin and Bitcoin donations to buy the unit a ~$6k training simulator that attaches to their guns. Ammo is expensive, so a simulator will allow them to get a lot more training. I'll publish more video on that later once I edit it up. But a sneak peak:
I managed to down one simulated shahed! Eventually... 😂
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Damn. That job looks scary, because the operator is right behind the gun, and the gun is what the enemy would love to blow up! Do they have a CROWS system addon for that?
Nope. CROWS costs $190,000. That's probably more money than they've spent in total.
They do wear body armor during active air raids. Ukrainian AA units have been hit before. In particular, one thing Russia sometimes does is attacks with two shededs, one just behind the other. So the AA unit reveals where they are shooting down the first shahed. Then the second attacks the unit.
To be clear, those are Russians.
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Quite amazing that he is doing this despite being a foreigner
I appreciate seeing updates like this. It's easy to talk about helping, but showing exactly what the donations funded gives people a much clearer picture of the impact.
https://lightning.video/aab512f5ccbe2ca7586574350569eb0d9955e933577cec937bb986bd4d48ff94
Zelensky's regime let the American Gonzalo Lira die in prison for the "crime" of having criticized Zelensky on YouTube. Killed by Ukraine and abandoned by the West because he had the courage of his convictions. Zelensky had Gonzalo Lira die in prison just for criticizing him on YouTube, because, being American, he didn't believe that in Ukraine there was no freedom of speech. Arrested by soldiers armed with submachine guns as if he were a terrorist.
https://m.stacker.news/148588
Ukrainian soldier PROTESTS in Kiev, calls service in Ukraine Army 'SLAVERY', DEMANDS clear terms of service
He condemns Zelensky's 'insane mobilization' policies and claims that many troops who fights since 2022 are exhausted and injured, with no clear demobilization dates