Today we held an open briefing where we reported on our work, projects, and overall activities of the battalion.
We talked about the main points:
— about combat evacuations from the frontline,
— about the development of medical and training areas,
— about projects that help save lives,
and about how the volunteer medical battalion operates.
Every day, the Hospitallers evacuate the wounded, teach tactical medicine, develop the unit’s medical capabilities, and assist the military.
I want to sincerely thank each of you for the incredible wave of support!
I did not expect that in the midst of the scandal, the donations would be so powerful. Your trust is what I value the most.
Thanks to your larger and smaller contributions, I paid a bill of 470,000 hryvnias yesterday, and right now I am transferring another 491,000 hryvnias for a batch of equipment to ‘Ballistics’.
Let me remind you that two weeks ago I also paid for equipment worth 500,000 hryvnias.
This is one of the reasons why the amount in the bank is constantly changing. I reduce the fundraising target in real time after each payment. We don’t wait for months until millions are collected in the account; we purchase everything in small batches and immediately put them to use.
Thanks to your support, the figures in the current banks are decreasing because we have the result of quick purchases.
Quality equipment affects not only the safety of our drivers and paramedics but also the lives of wounded soldiers they rescue under fire.
Therefore, I ask you to join the collection and support us with any comfortable donation or sharing.
It is invaluable to me that we did not slow down the current work despite the focus and resources directed at dealing with the consequences of the scandal, preparing important reports, and continuously moving towards one of the priority goals, namely the purchase of equipment for 300 Hospitallers, thanks to the support of all those who believe in us and trust us!
And on this occasion, our details for collecting for ammunition:
Target: ₴4,737,912.00 (500 thousand already paid). From Monday, there will be a photo report on receiving the property.
PrivatBank 4731 2196 0050 4058
Monobank 4441 1110 7306 2147
PayPal donate@usukrainianactivists.org
The division of the country, provoked by the authorities, continues in the most cynical way. Now — into the right and wrong volunteers.
Zelensky meets with the right ones. They are awarded orders and medals, their funds are officially allowed to be advertised at gas stations and supermarkets, funds are transferred to them without fear by military-civilian administrations (from the state budget) and big business. They are welcome guests at the marathon, and they are quoted by Telegram channels with millions of followers.
Those who are not loyal to the authorities because their God is the Armed Forces of Ukraine, not Bankova, are declared outlaws. Their accounts are blocked, sanctions are imposed on them, audit and law enforcement agencies are set against them, their work is devalued, and special reporting is demanded from them, pretending not to understand how war and real involvement in combat and evacuation are arranged. As if they don’t know, or perhaps they truly don’t know, how in Druzhkivka you can rent an apartment for military paramedic crews or change tires on a car. And report this instantly with checks and contracts. Such nuances, indeed, aren’t visible from the satellite…
Reporting is needed, the division of volunteers into loyal and opposition is detrimental.
It so happens that the jackal train with the crew in white jackets, which attacked Yana Zinkevych and the Hospitallers, mostly overlooked billion-dollar thefts and bribes in Zelensky’s entourage. Neither the Mindych schemes, nor Galushchenko’s embezzlement, nor Bakalov’s cash bags. Moreover, no one has proven that the Hospitallers and Yana spent funds on anything inappropriate. They did not buy brand new white Mercedes, apartments in new buildings, nor organized elite vacations during the war. Instead, only last year did they save 14,000 soldiers who were evacuated from the LBS.
And the reporting, I see, did not actually interest anyone on the jackal train. Because after the stop “Where is the reporting?”, without even waiting for answers, the train moved to the stop “Why are they still volunteers and not on staff?”. Tomorrow they’ll quiz the hairstyle.
So, in this dirty story, there are all the signs of a classic coordinated discreditation campaign, where no one is interested in answers, and new accusations come according to schedule. And I don’t think this is Russian IPSO – they only rejoice at the internal self-destruction in the Defense Forces. But someone from inside very much wants to discredit decent and independent people with the help of the tamed passengers of the jackal train. Isn’t that right, Volodymyr Oleksandrovych? Want to believe that everyone around is just like Minnych, Shefir, and Bakalov friends? But something is going wrong. People see who is who.
But karma returns. Especially when you slander a person who has been defending the country since the end of their teenage years and who has given their health for it.
Honestly, I’ve lost count of how many waves of attacks have hit the Hospitallers and Yana Zinkevych. At first, there were accusations about reporting. Then, other complaints. And now there are accusations of murder. This, excuse me, is a completely different level.
A very simple question arises here. If a person publicly makes such accusations, they must either prove them legally or publicly retract them later. This is no longer the level of anonymous Telegram channels. This is journalism, and journalism entails responsibility for words.
Honestly, I have only a few explanations for what’s happening. Either the journalist spreading this is being used “in the dark,” or they are under some kind of pressure, or there are other circumstances we don’t know about. Because accusations of this scale are not just about “raising a question.” These are direct statements that will have to be answered for.
But if we look at the situation more broadly, something else becomes apparent. This is long past being about accountability. It’s not even about one specific organization.
Look at what happened as a result. The volunteer movement began to divide. Some support, others remain silent, and others oppose. And we end up with an internal conflict where for years there was mutual support.
And here is a very important question: who benefits from this?
Because honestly, I don’t see who could profit from this except the aggressor country. When people who have been helping the front for years and rescuing the wounded from the battlefield suddenly become the target of informational attacks, it seems like a blow not just to one person. It looks like a blow to the trust in the entire volunteer movement.
Therefore, the question is very simple now. If there are facts – let’s move to the legal field. If there are no facts – this needs to be publicly retracted.
Otherwise, this is no longer journalism. It’s information warfare.
And the main question I ask myself is: why is this happening right now?
Unlike many virtual and mythical projects, the Hospitallers are a completely real force, a result. It is visible, it works. It also encompasses a huge number of non-public interactions, decisions, operations that are not highlighted on social networks.
I think this corps more resembles an order with its charter, initiation, code of honor, history, mythology, legends.
And I also think that this collective has gone through its internal crises and resolved them within itself.
I would say they will need to hire a team for public interactions and reporting, without which they will find it difficult. But it would be like the Masons hiring a director of communications. He will communicate, but it will barely touch the deep processes.
And at the core lies the service to the people of Ukraine. The conscious sacrifice of hundreds of people, which should not be forgotten, even if someone really wants to imagine themselves as a media assassin.
The attack on “Hospitallers” is strange to me. And here’s why.
They are not intermediaries, not “volunteers” who, without fighting, collect other people’s money to help someone and then live off the interest. They help themselves.
Anyone who has relatives or friends in the army knows that most units have a “common fund” (horrible word). Soldiers themselves contribute funds for the repair of everything—from vehicles to drones. So do their relatives and friends. The same goes for “Hospitallers.” If you don’t want to, don’t support. It’s your choice.
I don’t demand reports from the frontline unit I support. But I do require them, of course, from politicized “volunteers” who also do useful work but are intermediaries between society and the units.
It’s strange not to notice the difference. I am convinced of the honesty, integrity, and strength of Yana Zinkevych and support her.
I don’t know how it’s arranged, but numerous cases have proven that embezzlement of money is ALWAYS accompanied by a whole avalanche of utterly idiotic expenses. The same Husakov, who is now being compared to Yana Zinkevych, squandered money deceitfully taken from people on blackjack and women, Mindich bought a golden toilet, any prosecutor who made easy money always buys the latest model Lexus.
A person who earned their wealth doesn’t spend like that. They know the value of money. But those who got it easily immediately try to burst into luxury with embezzled millions. And this ALWAYS stands out.
And here’s what’s strange. No one who is now destroying Hospitallers and Zinkevych has provided any evidence of luxurious living by Yana Zinkevych. No one is seen in Bali like Tyshchenko. No one escaped to Israel like Mindich. No one is sending children to study for $200,000 a year like Galushchenko, who managed to be both a friend of state traitor Derkach and the president of Ukraine.
The question is, if she stole, where’s the money? What was it spent on? Or is Zinkevych a special case of a corrupt person who stole money and spent nothing on herself? No villa in Italy, no accounts in Israel, no luxury life in Ukraine nor even a tiny house somewhere in Kozyn or Koncha-Zaspa, where drones don’t fly. Nothing. Not even the poor prosecutor’s imagination of a Lexus.
I don’t know of any evidence regarding Zinkevych spending public funds on herself. That’s why the story of her accusation seems very strange to me.
Channel 5: Volunteers and military personnel defended Yana Zinkevych and her battalion
Ukrainian military and volunteers expressed support for Yana Zinkevych following accusations against the volunteer medical battalion “Hospitallers,” which was accused of the non-transparent use of donations.
“Yes, it undermines mobilization, trust in the Armed Forces and volunteers. That’s the aim of this campaign. And it’s unfortunate that Ukrainians themselves gave this tool to Russia,” said Yuri Goncharenko, head of the Ukrainian Security Club.
