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We respect and love them, and that's why we want to expand their capabilities and their chances of survival. So this fundraiser is very important to us.
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We are always so happy to visit our friend from the 26th Brigade during our expeditions along the frontlines. And this is mutual - they always find a place for our team, feed us, and share their news.
guys not only need to defend themselves, but also detect and shoot down enemy drones using the appropriate tools.
Before, they had to do this simply with rifles. This is the number of enemy drones they shot down near a single position over just a few days. It is very hard and dangerous work.
And now we continue to support them, fundraising for 56 Blsykavka UAVs.
Even if artillery and drones are different fields, modern warfare requires soldiers to have skills across multiple areas. Working with drones has become an essential part of the war: 👇🏻
At the beginning of 2026 we launched another project to support our defenders, including friends from the 26th Brigade.
Together with Ukrainian singer Monokate we raised funds for drone detectors. Artillery crews face constant drone threats, especially when operating large howitzers easy to spot.
That is when we first met Preston, and he helped us a lot!
By the way, for his major contribution, the 26th Brigade awarded him a distinction during his recent trip to the eastern front of Ukraine.
We were so happy to connect our friends from the 26th Brigade with our friend from the US 😎
After that, we implemented several large projects together. You may remember the Save the Crabs project, when we installed expensive and powerful EW systems on Polish Krab howitzers to protect roads and large self-propelled artillery from small but very dangerous enemy drones.
In one of the first parcels, we sent EcoFlow and Starlink to Oleh and his comrades, because artillery crews sometimes spend very long shifts in their dugouts. We wanted to make their work and life a bit more comfortable.
We've been supporting the 26th Brigade since November 2024. There serves an old friend of our colleague, divisional commander Oleh, who goes by the call sign Shaman.
Together with Preston Stewart, we are raising $50,000 for 56 Bliskavka (Lightning) UAVs for the 26th Artillery Brigade
But who are they? Let's get to know our friends better!
This time, we delivered Starlinks mini, 3D printers, and drone components with a total value of $59,948.
Huge thanks to Georgijs and his amazing community for raising funds for this project!
Georgijs from the Ukraine Matters @ukrainematters.bsky.social YT channel visited the 93rd Brigade in Kramatorsk and personally checked the second part of the equipment we delivered as part of the Black Raven project.
The project is still ongoing! We've raised 50% of the needed funds, so your donation will help us reach the goal faster 👇
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Georgijs from the Ukraine Matters @ukrainematters.bsky.social YT channel visited the 93rd Brigade to talk with soldiers in person.
We want to thank him and his community for raising funds for this equipment! Your support of this project is very important!
We delivered equipment valued at almost $60,000 to the 93rd Brigade as part of the Black Raven project.
This delivery included 10 Starlinks mini, 3 3D printers, 300 spools of plastic for them, 450 video transmitters, and 150 batteries. The total value of this delivery is $59,948.
Blyskavka is a modernized version of a russian UAV that was captured on the battlefield. Ukrainian engineers carefully studied it, improved its reliability, and adapted it to the needs of today’s war.
We chose these drones because they offer a strong balance of cost, reliability, and performance.
❗NEW FUNDRAISER❗
Together with our friend @prestonstew.bsky.social, we are launching a project to equip the 26th Artillery Brigade with “Blyskavka” (Lightning) UAVs!
💸 Our goal: $50,000.
Support this fundraiser: dzygaspaw.com/lightning-s...
And that support has already brought results! Just look at the video from those FPVs 👇
We want to thank the Applied Sciences Faculty alumni community for supporting the Drone Lab project. We are happy to have such a community that continues to support the alumni in the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
More than $17,000 of this amount was raised during the annual summer BBQ hosted by our director and faculty alumna, Iryna.
Since 2022, this gathering has become more than a reunion with an auction, where everyone brings different items to support those on the frontline.
Last summer, APPS Alumni @ucu_apps raised over $20,000 to support the Drone Lab project with critical drone components.
Thanks to their effort, we purchased 849 parts, totaling $23,461. These components were assembled into 80 FPV drones. All FPVs have already been delivered to the 47th Brigade.
1. Log in to Amazon and open our wishlist: www.amazon.fr/hz/wishlist...
2. Click “Switch address,” set location to France (69007), and refresh.
3. Choose an item, go to your basket, and click “Check out.”
4. Select Serhii Onyshchenko as the delivery address and complete payment.
Some small but important things are hard for us to purchase as a foundation due to paperwork, but we can hand them directly to soldiers.
If you’d like to check the wishlist via the link in the next tweet.
Thank you for supporting in such a personal way!
We just received a package from our friend Lindsey in Tennessee 💛
We’re always so happy when you send small care packages for our team and useful items for Ukrainian defenders.
Items from our Amazon wishlist are especially helpful.
7. Ground drones (UGVs)
Cost: ~$3k–$50k.
Used for logistics, mine clearance, ISR, casualty evacuation, and sometimes as mobile explosive platforms. They reduce the need to send soldiers into high-risk areas, and their adoption is increasing.
6. Maritime drones (USVs)
Cost: ~$200k–$500k.
Unmanned surface vessels carrying large explosive payloads to strike ships and ports.
Example: Magura V5 — used in the Black Sea to push fleets away from shore.
High asymmetry: far cheaper than the ships they target.
5. Strategic long-range strike drones
Cost: ~$20,000–$50,000 per unit
Example: Shahed-136
Used to hit infrastructure hundreds or thousands of kilometers away.
Functionally closer to low-cost cruise missiles than tactical drones.
4. Interceptor drones
Designed to hunt other drones.
Much cheaper than firing a surface-to-air missile.
Faster reaction time.
Used against:
– FPVs
– recon UAVs
– loitering munitions
Cost: ~$1,000–$200,000 depending on platform
3. Tactical loitering munitions
Cost: ~$20,000–$40,000 per unit
Example: ZALA Lancet
Designed to hunt artillery, radars, air defense systems.
More precise and expensive than FPVs.
Used selectively, not in mass waves.
2. Recon drones (~$1,500–$10,000)
Small quadcopters or fixed-wing UAVs providing:
– live ISR (intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance)
– artillery correction
– target confirmation
Typical endurance: 30 min to several hours.
Without recon drones, artillery becomes blind and inefficient.
