The words war, occupation, and genocide are often thrown around as abstract concepts, but they always mean people - human suffering, not just statistics or numbers, but humans with names, stories, and loved ones. This is why we do what we do to help 🫂⛑️🇺🇦 As always, a huge thank you to @vitalik.eth and @endaoment donors for supporting @crystalhearts and helping us make things happen. Because of your donations, we can continue supporting and supplying our medics (who do everything in their power to keep people alive), our defenders (who keep fighting back and resisting despite being extremely outnumbered and outpowered), assist local NGOs with evacuating civilians and helping them during the most vulnerable time, when they make the hard decision to leave their homes and everything behind just to have a chance to survive, and support independent journalists on the ground who aren’t afraid to report from places where no major media is willing to send people anymore 🙏

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Yesterday my friends (and the team I go to the frontlines with) got hit by a russian fpv drone. Everyone is alive and safe. But fuck!!! 🤬🤯😤

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So happy to share this. Thanks to @vitalik.eth we are able to fly provisions and medicine to otherwise inaccessible areas of the frontline ⛑️🫂🇺🇦 The heavy-lift drones are equipped with Starlink mounted on top and can carry up to 15 kg for distances of around 10 km. These are mostly used at night to avoid being intercepted. Along with ground robots, this is the best way to reach certain areas within the kill zone and provide lifesaving supplies without risking lives. So proud to see @crystalhearts name written on it 🥹🤍 Also, it’s wild to see the technological progress. Just a few years ago we would literally drive in an unarmored car straight toward areas of active combat to drop off supplies to medics and help civilians (and I’m still kinda shocked I’m alive when I think back to it). Now we can use drones and robots to do this work. Of course, technological advancements are also the reason things are so risky now for aid workers and medics with all the drone warfare, but that’s a whole other conversation. Today I want to talk about the positives and how technology helps save lives and provide support in the conditions of absolute hell 🙏 I know that as one person I don’t have the power to stop this war, but what I can do is my absolute fucking best to make sure more people survive it, receive medical help, and make it out of this alive. Thank you to everyone donating and supporting.

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This is what the power of donors can do! Because of @vitalik.eth’s support, we are able to use heavy-lift drones to fly provisions, medical supplies that prevent the wounded from bleeding out, and other lifesaving supplies to extremely dangerous areas of the kill zone without risking lives. The drones are equipped with Starlink mounted on top and can carry up to 15 kg for distances of around 10 km. ⛑️🫂🇺🇦 Volunteers stay safe by delivering supplies only as far as it’s currently possible to go by car, and the supplies still get dropped exactly where they need to go, saving lives with the help of technology. 🙌

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‘The Book of Love’ by Olivia Rodrigo for War Child UK. Filmed by children in Gaza, Sudan, Ukraine and Yemen ❤️‍🩹

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Olympics were terrible, but the Paralympics said hold my beer 🫥 They are now welcoming russian war criminals who were specifically participating in invading Ukraine, murdering civilians and committing the most heinous atrocities… because, in the words of the President of the International Paralympic Committee, “It doesn’t matter to us what they have done in the past in the combat field” and “what we offer with the movement is a second chance.” So let me get this straight. You commit war crimes, blow up children to pieces, rape women in occupied territories, and instead of being tried for war crimes you are told you deserve to travel the world, compete, and receive redemption from the world because hey, war crimes are just war crimes, and it’s normal now. And yes, there is a huge difference between arguing that some random professional athletes from countries that currently commit genocide and war crimes didn’t personally participate in any of that and therefore should be included, and arguing that actual soldiers who are war criminals and committed genocidal acts can now become athletes because they somehow deserve to live their best life after all those heinous atrocities.

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Happy Monday, friends! 🤍 Less than a month left (29 days to be exact) for @crystalhearts to qualify for a matching grant from @endaoment 🥹🙏 We didn’t qualify for much last time, and hopefully this time will be better. Every donation made via the Endaoment mini app brings us closer to it. This grant will allow us to get even more supplies to the frontlines in Ukraine ⛑️🇺🇦 If you are reading this, please amplify it if you can. https://donate.endaoment.org/orgs/933482060

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Saddened to learn of the passing of British war photographer and documentary filmmaker Paul Conroy. He did an incredible amount of work covering war zones and conflicts all over the world. I got to meet Paul during our last frontline run to Donbas back in November. We met at the site of one of the russian strikes, when they attacked rescuers and firefighters with glide bombs. Paul was one of the journalists who arrived immediately to cover it. Later, we all ended up at the same dinner with a group of war reporters and photographers, and I learned more about Paul’s fascinating work. I ended up reading his book when I returned to the U.S. and watched the documentaries he made in Ukraine 🤍🙏

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Kostiantynivka ❤️‍🩹 Nearly 2,000 civilians are still left in the city. russians are using phosphorus munitions on residential areas, as well as artillery, drones, and aerial bombs to raze the city to the ground (video captured by drone pilots of the 28th Brigade, whom @crystalhearts supplies with tactical medicine). I got to work a lot in Kostiantynivka end 2024 and beginning of 2025. During my last time working on the ground November 2025 we were unable to enter the city, so we worked in the towns nearby (the morning we were supposed to go in a combined effort with evacuation volunteers the plan has changed abruptly, and 2 foreign journalists joined the volunteer car instead of us, they got hit by a drone and luckily everyone survived). It hurts my heart to see what russians are doing to the city. Evacuations are still possible but very rare, several aid workers and evacuation volunteers got killed there. And when civilians try to leave on their own, they get targeted with drones and killed (the photos you see at the end of this video are the bodies of those who tried to leave on foot or on a bike). So for many there is absolutely no chance to get out unless evacuation teams get through to them. This is the reality.

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such a great episode! thank you so much for the shoutout! 🤍

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Very important article. Please read ❤️‍🩹 https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/world/europe/russian-soldiers-sexual-violence-ukraine.html

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thank you so much ✊🫂

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thank you 🥹✊

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