Resistance
Help for the army since 2014, a BRDM-2 for the defense of Kyiv, equipment, the Resistance 2022 exhibition
- 2014 - 2015Helping the Ukrainian army in 2014-2015When the war in the east began, a tourism team started setting aside part of its earnings for the army. Later the tourists themselves took equipment to the front line.Read more
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April 2014Charity Maidan tours for foreignersIn the spring of 2014 the world watched the Maidan through a TV screen, and russian propaganda was the loudest voice. We offered foreigners a chance to walk the Maidan with those who had stood there.Read more
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September 22, 2020Dosimeters and maps for exercises of the 135th Territorial Defense Battalionrussian troops were holding exercises in Belarus, and the border along the Zone was being reinforced. Reconnaissance soldiers needed our dosimeters. A year and a half later, the columns came from exactly there.Read more
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February 24-25, 2022The camera at the Dytiatky checkpoint that recorded the start of the invasionUkrainian vehicles stood at the checkpoint for a while and left. It seemed the danger had passed. Two hours later the russian columns came. We counted them through a small camera on our kiosk.Read more
- February - March 2022Passing on data about russian vehicles from occupied villagesThe russian invaders told people that Kyiv had already fallen. Every day those people walked to the only hill where a Ukrainian signal reached and told us where the enemy stood.Read more
- February - April 2022Trenches in the Red Forest: an information and psychological operationrussian soldiers were digging trenches in one of the most contaminated places in the Zone. We told media around the world about it. The danger was deliberately exaggerated - and the rumors reached the invaders themselves.Read more
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February - March 2022Helping the defense of Kyiv, evacuating families from Chernihiv, a run to SlavutychSleepless, running on adrenaline, we raced through empty Kyiv to a military unit. And suddenly the feeling was familiar: this is what an ordinary day in high season looked like.Read more
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March 2022A BRDM-2 armored vehicle for the defense of KyivThe museum vehicle in which tourists felt like radiation reconnaissance soldiers would not start. As the sirens wailed, a stranger called Karym brought it to life - with gasoline from his own moped.Read more
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since April 2022Radiation and chemical safety trainingsThe most dangerous thing in a nuclear or chemical strike is not knowing what to do. We teach this to soldiers, deminers, police officers and teachers.Read more
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2022 - 2023Equipment for Ukrainian soldiersAtropine, armor plates from Canada, uniforms from a retired firefighter and satellite communicators the enemy cannot detect. In the first year of the war we took to the front whatever was asked for.Read more
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2022 - 2024Charity evenings and auctions on Andriivskyi DescentArmy dishes from a chef, stand-up, plays and lots brought from the Kursk region. russian bots attacked the auction pages so hard that we knew: we had hit the target.Read more
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opened July 9, 2022, 11 Andriivskyi DescentResistance 2022, an exhibition of destroyed russian military equipmentA Tula samovar from 1895, found in a dugout in Hostomel, had been lit with pages of books about socialism. It is one of the exhibits where schoolchildren linger longest.Read more
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November 29, 2022, 11 Andriivskyi DescentA memorandum on volunteer solidarity tourismWith no power, no connection and an air raid alert on, several dozen people gathered at our place to agree on how tourism can rebuild the country.Read more