Yuriy Biriukov, ambassador of the NGO "Community Matters":
"You give 55 bulletproof vests to 'combat mages' - I mean chaplains - they don't get anything at all. Then you give uniforms and boots to the TRO fighters - the uniforms are now being sent to the regular Armed Forces, and the TRO, although in many places it fights on the first line and buries the dead along with the regular soldiers, is an ugly duckling. You give out fifty armor and helmets to a motorized infantry battalion being formed in Dnipro - somehow they are lacking from the warehouses, and I understand this.
And then you go shopping at TM Militarist...
In other words, in ordinary life, shopping means going to a store, twirling something you don't really need, giving your brain to a consultant, choosing something else, even more unnecessary, taking your brain out again, going to the next store and suffering through the same nonsense for thirty minutes, returning to the first store, buying the clothes you twirled in your hands the first time, going home and never wearing them.
Shopping in the volunteer life means arriving at the wholesale warehouse, picking up everything that is relevant to the special forces' requests, in general, EVERYTHING, realizing that the request is satisfied on 30%, seeing the gloomy faces of your friends who arrived after you, getting the invoice... being dumbfounded, scratching your head and writing publications.
And the main thing is that I didn't buy much, incomplete equipment for the company, not the most promoted items (which are not available anyway) - and the bill exceeded 500,000 hryvnias. At the same time, I understand these soldiers, I know the work of these soldiers. We'll all post pictures and videos later, with joy, right?
That's how we live, running in circles."