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«Slovyansk Fortress» Charitable Organization

What we do?

The priority task is to help the Armed Forces of Ukraine because it depends on them whether we will have a future.
What are the types of aid? These are everyday household items that the state either does not provide today or provides insufficiently/untimely. These are military uniforms and footwear, sleeping bags and tactical sleeping mats, raincoats, gas burners, shovels, spuds, polyethene for dugouts and fortifications, generators and solar batteries. These are medicines, tactical medical kits, cars, vehicles, and more.

We work closely and constantly keep in touch with military units so that we are aware of their urgent needs. The situation on the front line is changing daily: what was required yesterday may not be needed today, and vice versa. Timely provision of the military necessitates allows to carry out combat missions as efficiently as possible.

The second area is the treatment and rehabilitation of the military both in the places where military operations occur and in hospitals, as well as the provision of healthcare for military personnel after completing their duties. It includes providing fighters with medicines, personal protective equipment, training in first aid, assistance in the rehabilitation of the wounded and the provision of psychological service.

The third area is the integration and social adaptation of internally displaced persons in the new community.
It includes assistance in confirming housing and property rights for IDPs, the right to social protection, support in finding a job, getting legal aid, access to documents, health services and education, and creating conditions for the integration of IDPs in host communities.

The fourth one is participating in rebuilding infrastructure facilities, and providing opportunities for self-realization to socially active citizens in wartime.

Our Team

Team member #1
DMYTRO KOCHUKOV

is a professional lawyer. After the Russian-Ukrainian war started and Sloviansk was liberated from occupation in 2014, he became a public activist; and in 2015 — a deputy of the City Council. He contributed to the development of Ukrainian statehood, civil society, regional democracy, and local governance. Since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, he became a volunteer desiring to make a personal contribution to the Victory. Soon he created a team of like-minded Ukrainians from Poland, the Czech Republic, the USA, and Ukraine, who spare no time, finances, or mental strength, and help the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the victims of hostilities.

Team member #2
MARYNA SHEVCHENKO

is an active, helpful and sympathetic person. Her life motto is «If not me, then who». She became a volunteer to bring Victory Day closer with her help and support of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. She firmly believes that when the enemy unleashes such an unprecedented war, every state citizen must defend their home country on the front where they can be most beneficial

Team member #3
VITALINA FEDOROVA

is a lawyer on the heart because she is passionate about protecting citizen’s rights and responsibilities. She started volunteering long before the war began, but right now, she feels she can be helpful to the defenders of our state. Vitalina says that they are those who protect all our people every second at the cost of their own lives while allowing us to continue to live. In her opinion, a minor thing we can do now is to unite all efforts in helping the defenders of Ukraine on the way to Victory over the invader, providing them with everything they need.

Team member #4
TETYANA KHIMION

War changes our occupations and people’s lives significantly! It is about Tatyana Khimion, who changed her dance hall to volunteer work in order to help the Ukrainian army. Tetyana is a choreographer, the head of the dance club, where more than 300 children have been engaged. But all this ceased to exist for the second time, in 2014 and on February 24, 2022. The principle of any work she does: «If you do something, then only do your best; otherwise, it’s better not to start at all». The war changed her attitude toward the country and people eight years ago. Volunteering is a state of mind. Now she is ready to be in Sloviansk and do everything possible (and impossible) to make it easier and more convenient for the guys to defend peaceful life in Ukraine. Now she is ready to be in Sloviansk and do everything possible (and impossible) to make it easier and more convenient for the guys to defend peaceful life in Ukraine. She dreams that every person who lives in Ukraine or loves this country will devote at least a couple of hours a day to our victory. Sloviansk is Ukraine and the town of cool people.

Team member #5
YURII BILOKOBYLSKYI

In the past, he was a resuscitator at a children’s hospital in Sloviansk. Now he is the manager of a pharmaceutical company. Helping people is his primary calling in life. Therefore, it is not surprising that Yurii has been supporting our defenders since the first days of the war: he collects, buys, orders and sends urgently needed medicines that save lives. Yurii’s message is «Ukraine is one single family».

Team member #6
Alexander Mima

Entrepreneur, social activist, patriot. He is a sympathetic person with a keen sense of justice. The full-scale invasion did not stop Alexander from developing his own business; on the contrary, it gave him the impetus to find himself in volunteer work. His analytical mindset, reasonableness, desire to be helpful, significant managment experience, and a strong desire to win help solve problems within the foundation’s work. He is bringing victory closer with the foundation’s team by doing everything possible for a free and independent future for Ukraine.