Yuriy Biryukov, ambassador of the NGO "Community Matters":

"For two days now we have been raising money to buy a batch of armored vehicles. My subscribers know about it, and the subscribers of friendly bloggers know about it. 45,000,000 hryvnias, the clock is ticking, the payment deadline is getting closer and so are the unimaginable penalties for delay. You've raised 5,000,000 out of 45,000,000, a great result, but...
But the trick is that we are under the most severe information blockade.
Many specialized Telegram channels wrote about the armored vehicles, but... anonymous volunteers. Many major websites wrote about the armored vehicles, but... anonymous volunteers.
In general, the trend is noticeable, right?
And we went further, we sent letters to 4 media groups. 1+1 media, StarLightMedia, InterMediaGroup, Media Group Ukraine. That is, those who own large TV channels. We asked them to give us advertising time. It could be free, even for money. But... oh, why does Oleksandr Tkachenko have to approve all advertising? And why is the activity of the NGO "Sprava Hromadas" not of interest for coverage in some single TV channel? Armored vehicles for the army are not of interest? Did this Oleksandr Tkachenko determine this? Really?
Didn't he eat soup?
For comparison, you can Google the news about Prytula or Come Back Alive. I would like to emphasize that it is great that they are not blocked. It's to help the army, it's not about "competition" at all. But we have censorship, it's a .... fact. This is not military censorship, which I would understand and support. We have political censorship.
And the decision is made by... Oops.
Okay, let's say I let off some steam. And we will continue to raise money to pay for armored vehicles for our army.
PS No. I'm not claiming that no website or Telegram channel has published our names. There are such cases. They only emphasize it."