Three months of preparing the project... you could have burned out after watching pictures and videos and calmed down. But no, it was a puppy's excitement in the first minutes at the plant's industrial site when we saw the armored vehicles.

We started this project in mid-March, when the north of the country was still occupied, when Irpin and Bucha were still occupied, but we were planning ahead, understanding the timing of the paperwork and the delivery time. It took us three months to finalize export documents. With all the imaginable and unimaginable inclusions of representatives of the Ministry of Defense, with the involvement of the diplomatic corps and attachés, including friends in European structures and governments.
The first ever Italian export license for the sale of military equipment to a non-governmental organization outside the EU.

This is a framed picture on the wall, this is an achievement. They chewed it out.

So, yes, we were in a state of "puppy love", it's pointless to deny it.

Eleven full-fledged armored vehicles for the air assault battalion that is being created, which was given five trucks at the start of the formation and... that's it. They put them on a long waiting list to receive the vehicles. They knew about the purchase a month ago, and very carefully and unobtrusively clarified the details and prospects. Very unobtrusively. Only three times a day? Because they have the same passion. After we informed them that the documents had been received, the Italian government made a decision on the license - well, from that moment on, the messages from the battalion became... a little more intrusive, but it is also a puppy's enthusiasm.

Then we will talk about armored vehicles separately. About thermal imagers and surveillance cameras. About spare parts and maintenance. About air conditioners and... this is especially pleasing every time - PARKTRONICS! We will tell you all about it later. Now let's talk about money.

40. FIVE. MILLIONS.

Inhale. Breathe out. Inhale. Exhale. To pay for the contract, we need to raise an incredible amount of 45 million hryvnias. The amount would have been twice as much, but as usual, the traditional half of the payment from Poroshenko has already been made, an advance payment has been made. The armored vehicles have already been prepared for loading and will be delivered in a week after full payment. But first, we need to pay. And we need to get together and collect it. Can we do it? Yes, we can! We just need to get together. We need to find an opportunity, we need to tell our friends about this project, we need to show this project to our acquaintances. These armored vehicles are not just "transportation of personnel", not just "protection of personnel from bullets and debris". It is just us and them, our guys. Nothing more and nothing less. This is not about a unique purchase of volunteers, not about a competition in unusual ideas, not about politics or PR. This is about our military and our chance to help them. We need to get together and collect.

And we will collect, 20 and 50, 1000 and 5000 - we will collect!

And for the final touch, we have come up with several ways to say thank you for your help. There are your names (strictly optional and subject to variations) on a special metal plate inside the vehicle, and special super-exclusive "I bought an armored vehicle for the Armed Forces of Ukraine" T-shirts. It's all on the website.
Shall we gather? Shall we?