Stand with Ukraine!

Your Outrage Is Fuel — Here's Where to Spend It

If you're like me, you're outraged by what Russia is doing to Ukraine.

The bombed hospitals. The shattered schools. The families torn apart in the night. And through it all, Ukraine still stands — still fights — still refuses to bow to a bully with an army.

But here's the hard truth I've had to sit with: outrage that stays on the couch changes nothing.

So I went looking for the place where my support could actually land. Not a black box. Not vague "awareness." A direct line into Ukraine's fight. I found it — actually, I found two of them, both from the same official source — and I want to put them in front of you today.

UNITED24: Ukraine's Official Fundraising Platform

First, the big one: UNITED24

This isn't some random charity with a slick website. UNITED24 is the official fundraising platform of Ukraine, launched by President Zelenskyy himself. When Ukraine's president asks the world for help, this is where he asks you to go.

Donations go directly to Ukraine's defense, medical aid, and rebuilding — and UNITED24 publishes weekly reports showing exactly how the money was distributed. No wondering. No hoping. You can follow your dollar.

Nearly $4 billion has been raised there so far, from companies like Microsoft, Visa, and Spotify down to everyday people like you and me. That's the world saying, with its wallet open: we see you, Ukraine, and we are not looking away.

If you've ever thought "I'd donate if I knew it actually got there" — this is your answer.

The UNITED24 App: Become a Frontline Ally

Now the one that really got me: the UNITED24 app, free on the App Store and Google Play.

This is where supporting Ukraine gets personal.

The app lets you choose one of five elite Ukrainian drone warfare units — the backbone of the Drone Line initiative — and back it directly. And I don't mean tossing money into a general fund. I mean getting to know them: their daily lives, their stories, photos and videos from the front, thank-yous in their own words. These aren't statistics. They're people, and you'll know their names.

You pick your own call sign. You choose an avatar. You join a community of supporters standing behind your unit. You can fund their real, current needs through live fundraisers, send them words of encouragement, or subscribe monthly and have their backs for the long haul — like a true teammate.

You're not just a donor anymore. You're family.

Here's What I'm Asking

I'm not asking you to feel guilty. I'm not asking you to doomscroll harder.

I'm asking you to do the one thing that actually matters: turn your outrage into action.

Donate at u24.gov.ua. Download the app at u24.gov.ua/app. Pick your unit. Learn their names. Fund their victory.

Russia is counting on our fatigue, our distraction, our silence. Don't give them any of it.

Courage like Ukraine's should never fight alone.

If You're on the App, Here's a run-down of the Drone Line units:

Here's the rundown on all five — they're the "Drone Line," the five most effective drone units grouped together in June 2025 as the spearhead of Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces. Each has a very different personality:

429th "Achilles" — the volunteers. Formed on day one of the invasion (Feb 24, 2022) by Kyiv volunteers in the Territorial Defense Forces, led by Yuriy "Achilles" Fedorenko. They started doing drone recon to guide artillery in Kharkiv, then grew from a company to a full brigade by January 2026. Their specialty: hunting Russia's own drones — interceptor drones, plus strikes on enemy drone pilots, launch sites, and radars. In one month they downed 418 Russian drones, including 118 Shaheds.

414th "Magyar's Birds" — the famous one. Founded in May 2022 by Robert "Magyar" Brovdi, who was a millionaire grain trader and art patron with zero military background before the war. Started with 26 people; now ranked #1 by verified targets destroyed, operating across 150+ km of front and supporting 120+ brigades. They do everything across "12 layers" — strike drones, electronic warfare, remote mining, and they build their own drones and munitions. Brovdi became a Hero of Ukraine and now commands the entire Unmanned Systems Forces; Russia reportedly put a $20M bounty on him.

20th "K-2" — the veterans. The oldest of the five: started in 2017 as a tiny recon team doing raids behind enemy lines, among the first Ukrainians to fly DJI drones in combat. They were testing heavy bomber drones ("Baba Yaga" types dropping anti-tank mines) back in 2021, before the invasion. Led by Lt. Col. Kyrylo Veres. Motto: "Their Deaths Are Our Lives." Drone warfare before it was cool.

427th "Rarog" — the fast riser. Started April 2023 as a single company inside the 24th Mechanized Brigade and rocketed to full brigade status by January 2026 — unusually fast, driven by sheer performance. Full-spectrum: FPVs, heavy bombers, fixed-wings, recon Mavics, and ground robots — doing recon, remote mining, strikes, and delivering supplies to frontline positions. Famous for an FPV drone killing a Russian Mi-28 attack helicopter in flight. They run their own pilot school and workshops. (Rarog is a Slavic firebird spirit.)

"Fenix" (Phoenix) — the border guards. The odd one out: it's not army at all, but Ukraine's State Border Guard Service — the only border-guard unit in the Drone Line. Formed 2024, led by Hero of Ukraine Dmytro Oleksiuk. They hammer Russian armor and logistics in the Kharkiv region, but their standout trick is counter-drone work: over 200 Russian drones downed in a single month.

The differences in a nutshell: Achilles hunts enemy drones and drone infrastructure. Magyar's Birds is the biggest hammer — most kills, builds its own weapons, most famous. K-2 are the old hands who've been doing this since 2017. Rarog is the versatile all-rounder (air and ground robots) that grew fastest. Phoenix are the border guards who turned into elite drone interceptors.