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With your help, we managed to raise $19,000 for engineering equipment repairs for 🇺🇦. This is a good result, and we are on track to close the fundraiser. I need your help with reposting, liking, commenting, and donating.
Here is a small video of one of the excavators we transferred half a year ago, moving through the active war zone with a small convoy working to protect it against FPV drones. This demonstrates the importance of engineering equipment. Units dedicate a drone protection team to make sure this equipment can safely move from one position to another. It also demonstrates the danger they face.
We only have $11,000 left to raise in this fundraiser to support engineering equipment repairs for multiple Ukrainian units. These donations allow this equipment to continue operating and help save Ukrainian lives.
Donation link: https://t.co/kW45efUONx
I want to explain not only the importance of engineering equipment in the Ukrainian Armed Forces, but also the importance of maintaining and repairing it, and how you can help us by donating, sharing, and following me. Donation link in the next comment to this post.
A piece of engineering equipment such as an excavator is a great machine, but it's not the same as a pickup truck that you can transfer once and then let the recipient maintain and service themselves.
There are many nuances to operating this equipment. The hydraulics are complicated, parts are not as widely available as parts for normal vehicles, and service intervals are short because the conditions are extreme. The load on components is significantly higher than in normal vehicles. Combine that with a never-ending threat from drones and shelling, and you get an extremely challenging environment in which to keep this equipment running.
On top of that, you need specialized equipment to diagnose and repair these machines.
That's why when @LibertyUkraineF provides this equipment, we try to make sure it will continue to operate successfully. We provide expertise and major repair services as well. This doesn't include routine maintenance, which we expect operators to perform themselves, but even that isn't always possible because of the threats and conditions mentioned above, putting additional strain on the machines.
One fully functional excavator can do the work of 30 men with shovels.
Units that receive this equipment from us repeatedly tell us that engineering equipment is one of the most underrated types of equipment on the battlefield. Once they have an excavator, they cherish it like gold, because they understand how much work it can do, how many positions it can build, and how many lives it can help protect.
We have provided more than 30 excavators by now. Each machine works more hours annually than a normal machine in the construction business would work in many years. Some of them have already accumulated more than 10,000 hours since we transferred them. This puts enormous wear on every component.
That's why providing major repair services to the Ukrainian Armed Forces for the machines we supplied is critical. Delivering the machine is only the beginning. Keeping it running is what makes that investment continue to matter on the battlefield.
I started this fundraiser for our major repair campaign 4 days ago, and we have already been fortunate enough to raise $10,000, 1/3 of our goal.
Thank you to everyone who has donated and shared.
$30,000 would allow us to keep this repair campaign running and repair around 6 excavators, each of which has already worked thousands of hours supporting Ukrainian troops.
If you read all the way to here, I really appreciate it. Please share, like, follow, and donate if you can.
donation link in the comment below⤵️
Hello everyone, I am starting a new fundraiser to help maintain and repair engineering equipment @LibertyUkraineF has already delivered to Ukraine with your aid. Donation link at the end of this post.
Please read till the end, like, share and quote - it is very important for this fundraiser.
Donations are tax deductible.
Over the past 3 years, we have delivered more than 30 excavators, 40 heavy trucks, and loads of other engineering equipment such as cranes, augers, and off-road forklifts.
90% of the equipment we have delivered has performed exceptionally well, as we picked some of the most durable models. However, even the best equipment can't live forever, and the stress it's been put through on the battlefield shows.
For example, one of the machines worked 12,000 hours over two years. That machine was a Yanmar VIO50 excavator that we bought, delivered, and serviced for $30,000. A new machine like this costs around $100,000. 12,000 machine hours is more than the expected lifetime of an excavator in this class.
Today, this excavator returned to us for major repairs. I can't stress enough the importance of the work this machine performed. It served in the 43rd Artillery Brigade, building fortifications for PzH 2000 howitzers and digging trenches for drone pilots. It saved countless lives from drone threats and tens of millions of dollars in equipment by protecting critical assets.
Today, we have a backlog of around 8 similar machines awaiting repairs. These machines have complex hydraulics, pins, and joints that require special equipment and expertise to repair.
My goal has always been to deliver the best-value solutions for the least amount of funding. For example, a machine used to bore pin seats on an excavator costs around $15,000. We didn't have that kind of funding dedicated to repairs, so my brother @vaycartana built and programmed such a tool himself, and it cost us only $4,000.
However, our ingenuity and desire to help Ukraine can only go so far without funding. We need parts, we need to pay for electricity, and we need to pay something to the workers who perform these repairs. This is back-breaking labor done under constant air raids, bombings, and air raid sirens.
That's why I am asking you to donate to the fundraiser using the link at the end of this post. Our goal is to raise $30,000 to allow us to repair up to 6 excavators.
Please share, quote repost, and like this post. It greatly helps visibility and directly impacts the battlefield.
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@AmalaKharris “We do not expect to repeat this same level of performance over the next two quarters of 2026, and we currently expect a decrease in revenue sequentially from Q2 to Q3. We do expect Q3 and Q4 to have significant year-over-year growth, more than 100% growth.”
@Leseptemb “We do not expect to repeat this same level of performance over the next two quarters of 2026, and we currently expect a decrease in revenue sequentially from Q2 to Q3. We do expect Q3 and Q4 to have significant year-over-year growth, more than 100% growth.”
It has been a great honor to serve the Ukrainian people as the Minister of Defense.
Here is what our team managed to achieve:
1. Disabled Starlink access for Russian forces.
2. Took over a Ministry of Defense with zero budget, took a risk, reallocated funds from payroll from the end of the year, and effectively invested them in mid-strike capabilities, fiber-optic FPVs, low-cost reconnaissance, ground robotic platforms, interceptor drones, and deep-strike drones.
3. Launched "Logistical Lockdown", this cut off enemy logistics and initiated the isolation of Crimea.
4. Continued the funding program for the Drone Line.
5. Launched a support program for modern drone-assault units that rely primarily on advanced technologies in combat.
6. Introduced a 70% advance payment policy for procurements made via e-Points on the Brave1 Market portal.
7. Fundamentally overhauled the procurement system.
8. Procured thousands of pickup trucks, buggies, and ATVs for the military for the first time—and did so through open tenders.
9. The drone interception rate rose from 83% to 91%, and the cruise missile interception rate soared from 47% to 87%.
10. Contracted Patriot PAC-2 GEM-T missiles for the first time, and submitted an application through an EU loan to purchase PAC-3 missiles.
11. Launched a baseline drone supply system for brigades and corps.
12. Launched a massive grant program for manufacturers of explosives and missiles.
13. Initiated an unpopular but vital transformation of the military.
14. Conducted three UDCG meetings, where we successfully broke through the Russian information trap claiming our defeat, restoring partners' faith in Ukraine. This secured $40 billion in support announced for this year (excluding the EU loan).
15. Launched the mechanism to utilize the EU loan for our military priorities.
16. Found a way to scale cheap missiles against jet-powered Shaheds and signed a record-breaking contract.
17. Our domestic ballistics. We radically revised the technical specifications, maximized accuracy, and reduced the cost by 30%.
18. Signed a contract to procure Gripen fighter jets.
19. Collaborated with the military to plan and execute Operation Auchan, which halted the enemy's mechanized offensive for six months.
20. Opened up exports under the Drone Deal program to attract investment and scale up domestic defense-industrial complex (OPK) production.
21. Launched the Trophy Lab, providing partners with the opportunity to study captured Russian military technologies.
22. Launched the Defense AI Center A1 to accelerate the integration of artificial intelligence on the battlefield.
Thank you to my entire team for their relentless 24/7 service. A special thank you to my family for their patience.
Thank you all for your support!
I will continue to work toward the mission I originally brought to the Ministry of Defense: defeating the enemy through asymmetry, the speed of innovation, and the power of organization.
To be continued.
.@lb_ua reports that the current Minister of Internal Affairs Ihor Klymenko could replace Mykhailo Fedorov as Minister of Defense as part of the government reshuffle.
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