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WHAT IS GOING ON?
On February 24th 2022, Russia launched a large-scale military invasion of Ukraine, one of its neighbors to the southwest, marking an escalation to a conflict that began in 2014. Following Ukraine’s Revolution of Dignity in 2014, Russia had annexed Crimea and Russian-backed separatist forces had seized part of the Donbas in eastern Ukraine, leading to an eight-year war in the region.
The invasion received widespread international condemnation, including new sanctions imposed on Russia, triggering a financial crisis. Global protests took place against the invasion, while protests in Russia were met with mass arrests. Many reports called the invasion the largest conventional warfare attack in Europe since World War II.
DCG 201 STANCE ON THE INVASION OF UKRAINE
We at DCG 201 (formally DEFCON 201 & DC 201) continue to follow our stances on previous conflicts & crisis. We denounce what Russia’s imperialistic invasion with it’s ethno-nationalist justification, which is unacceptable and is against the hacker ethics/way of life.
Our hearts go out to the untold of Ukrainians of all types who have been murdered in the conflict including Russians that were sent out to die for the oligarchy’s fascism and the arrest of untold amounts of Russian citizens who protested their tyrannical leadership’s inept decision.
WHERE TO DONATE TO HUMANITARIAN AID
- Save Life: This NGO crowdfunds non-lethal military equipment, such as thermal vision scopes & supplies it to the Donbas front lines. It also provides training for Ukrainian soldiers, as well as researching troops’ needs and social reintegration of veterans.
- Donbas SOS: This organization helps those who live in the Donbas war zone, those who relocated to other parts of Ukraine, and freed prisoners of war. It offers legal support, accommodation assistance, and psychological aid among other things.
- Crimea SOS: This organization has been helping internally displaced people from Crimea since Russia occupied the peninsula in 2014. It documents Russian authorities’ repressions against Crimeans and advocates for the end of the occupation.
- Hospitallers : This is a medical battalion that unites volunteer paramedics and doctors to save the lives of soldiers on the frontline. They crowdfund their vehicle repairs, fuel, and medical equipment.
- Sunflower of Peace: https://www.facebook.com/donate/507886070680475/2099553790222204/
List Of Bomb Shelters In Ukraine
- Tabletochki: This foundation has been supporting children with cancer for 10 years. They procure medicines, equipment, and arrange overseas treatment, among other things.
- ChildrenWeWillMakeIt: This movement grew out of a campaign that raised $2 million to get the world’s most expensive medicine for a Ukrainian boy with spinal muscular atrophy. It now fundraises for the treatment of other Ukrainian children with SMA.
- Ruka ob Ruku: This is a running club for children with disabilities. The initiative gives children an opportunity to train and take part in races together with their parents and volunteers.
- Voices of Children: https://voices.org.ua/en
- Happy Old: This charity provides older people across Ukraine with groceries and medicine, holds educational, entertainment, and sports events, as well as helps with employment. They even created a modeling agency for the elderly.
- Let’s Help: This charity cares for older people living alone and helps state retirement homes. They also advocate for better treatment of older people by the state, including providing people aged 60+ with easy access to education.
- Starenki: It’s a charitable initiative devoted to issues of old age in Ukraine. They help lonely seniors by providing them with groceries and hygiene products.
Charities that help the Disabled
- Fight for Right: https://eng.ffr.org.ua/projects
- Everybody Can: https://everybodycan.com.ua
Donations to Ukrainian Women’s Guard:
IBAN:
UA 29 300528 0000026002000008262
Beneficiary:
UWG
- Women Perspectives: This organization has been helping women who have faced domestic violence, discrimination in the labor market, and other issues. The NGO works with local and state authorities to promote pro-equality gender policies in Ukraine.
- Marsh Zhinok (Women’s March): Every year, on March 8, this initiative holds a rally promoting gender equality and the protection of women from gender-based violence. Currently, the organization is petitioning for Ukraine to adopt the Istanbul Convention.
- Project Kesher Women & Girls Donation Page: https://connect.clickandpledge.com/w/Form/c8f502e9-b5c6-402f-9643-27891faae4f3
Safety For African Diaspora Refugees
The Ukraine govt has set up an emergency hotline to help Black & Asian students fleeing Russian attacks, its foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba announced. The # is: +380934185684
Charities that help LGBTQ+
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BTC:
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ETH:
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Telegram: https://t.me/ukrainepride/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ukraine.Pride/
Charities for the Jewish Diaspora
Project Kesher: https://www.projectkesher.org/
HIAS: https://www.hias.org/hias-responds-crisis-ukraine
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee: https://www.jdc.org/disasters/ukraine-response/
World Union for Progressive Judaism: https://wupj.org/news/2022/02/51971/world-union-launchs-ukraine-crisis-fund/
Survivor Mitzvah Project: https://www.survivormitzvah.org/donate-holocaust-survivors/
Charities for the Romani People
Safety for South East Asian Diaspora Refugees
https://twitter.com/opganga
https://twitter.com/eoiromania
https://twitter.com/hashtag/indianstudentsinukraine
The Ukraine govt has set up an emergency hotline to help Black & Asian students fleeing Russian attacks, its foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba announced. The # is: +380934185684
- Blood Agents: It is an NGO that promotes regular, conscious and gratuitous blood donations. They have encouraged people to donate blood over 5,000 times over the past six years.
- Donor UA: It is an automated system for recruiting and managing blood donors, designed to promote the donor movement in Ukraine. You can help by signing up and donating blood or by supporting the project with money donation.
- Sirius: Is the largest shelter for stray animals in Ukraine established in 2000. Its capacity is over 3,000 animals. The institution crowdfunds for animal feed, veterinary drugs, construction and repair of enclosures, and other needs.
- Happy Paw: Is a charity dedicated to solving the problems of homeless animals in Ukraine. The charity helps owners find lost animals, sterilizes domestic animals of people in need & holds lectures on humane treatment of homeless animals for schoolchildren.
- UAnimals: Is a movement for protecting animals from exploitation & abuse. The organization managed to achieve a ban on animal circuses & persuaded many designers participating in Ukrainian Fashion Week to abandon natural fur.
- Ukraine Without Waste: It is a Ukrainian non-profit promoting the practice of sorting household waste. They educate companies on how to go green at their offices, and hold lectures for the wider public.
- Laska: It’s a chain of two charity stores in Kyiv that promote conscious shopping. They accept donated clothes, resell 15% of them, and send the rest to orphanages, homes for the elderly and centers for people with disabilities.
- Help the homeless: This initiative supports homeless people & the elderly in need, by providing them with free meals, medicine, hygiene products, clothes & shoes. Launched by a group of volunteers in 2016, the organization has been relying on crowdfunding.
- Suka Zhizn: This organization grew big from a 2017 Instagram account launched to tell stories of homeless people. Now volunteers provide various support to the homeless: employment, sorting out documents, searching for relatives & legal counseling.
- Slidstvo: Is an independent agency launched in 2012 that produces award-winning documentaries exposing corruption. They have investigated mismanagement of prisons, fraud, money laundering at PrivatBank & the assassination of journalist Sheremet.
- UKRPravda News: Founded in 2000 by Gongadze, a prominent journalist who was killed the same year, this publication is among the most influential in Ukraine. The reporters break political scoops and unmask officials who abuse their power.
- Zaborona Media: This is an independent media outlet founded by journalists. They investigate topics such as violations of Ukrainian workers’ rights in the Middle East, arms trafficking, and corruption in the construction sector.
- Parkhomivka Museum: The museum, located in a small village in eastern Kharkiv Oblast, is an 18th-century villa that offers a permanent collection of exhibits by artists as iconic as Picasso, Malevich & Manet. You can support it by coming & buying a ticket.
- Save Kyiv Modernism: Is a movement that unites architects, designers and activists who advocate for the protection of the remarkable Soviet modernist structures across Ukraine.
- FrankivskToCareAbout: Is a movement for the preservation of architectural heritage in the western city of Ivano-Frankivsk. Founded in 2016, the initiative renovates old wooden doors of the city’s ancient buildings.
- Svoyi: Svoyi gives free oxygen concentrators to people who contracted COVID & can’t be hospitalized due to personal circumstances or when hospitals are overflowing. It also helps those discharged too early in favour of patients in more serious conditions.
- Monsters, Inc.: This organization is based in Odesa and provides emergency medical aid to people living in the region. They also help COVID hospitals, procuring medicines and equipment.
Charities helping via Cryptocurrency
Binnace Charity: https://www.binance.charity/Ukraine-Emergency-Relief-Fund
Ukraine Pride:
- BTC:
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OSINT & RECON FOR HACKERS ABOUT THE INVASION
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