Stories from Ukraine 🇺🇦

Eventually, we may all grow numb to statistics and abstractions. But stories of love and courage will stay with us forever. 💙💛 #NAFO 🐝 My nickname is Grass.

[Stories from Ukraine 🇺🇦 @storiesfromua]

I'm also at https://t.co/fHvTNyIHex 🤗

[🇺🇦Ukraine Resists ruzzian Genocide... Yeah Again @ArmedMaidan]

ruzzian terrorism is Ebola—Ukraine is the cure💉

Support drone therapy—300 km/h doses available🐝

$40,667 raised so far in the raffle—great googly moogly!😮

Thank you

🚨ENDS 6:59 PM ET🚨

Help Ukrainian defenders save the free world

Help save a life

Win this axe of legend😮

[Stories from Ukraine 🇺🇦 @storiesfromua]

@ArmedMaidan @lacerantplainer @nextlvlphil @fellaraktar @Capblyatbeard @JohnLiniger @tomgpalmer @Wendehopes @KanariFella @Kerri970 @Justinhead1982 @SChiron58 Nice name! 10/10

[Stories from Ukraine 🇺🇦 @storiesfromua]

@lacerantplainer @wilendhornets Thank you so much LP!! 🥰 You rock more 🫶

[Stories from Ukraine 🇺🇦 @storiesfromua]

Please join us in supporting @wilendhornets raffle for interceptors drones. These drones are extremely effective in protecting Ukrainian skies! And for every $10 donation, you have a chance to win a beautiful engraved axe! Let's do it together.😎

[🇺🇦Ukraine Resists ruzzian Genocide... Yeah Again @ArmedMaidan]

AXE A SHAHED II—Wild Hornets Raffle!🐝

Win @Capblyatbeard's engraved axe! New prizes!

Fund STING interceptors for the top Border Guards anti-Shahed unit

🎟️Donate $10/entry: https://t.co/s7X7M9S4cO
👉Reply screenshot/DM @fellaraktar
🎯$500=named STING+guaranteed strike video⤵️

Ends June 3

We raised $13,475 in round #1 of this raffle. We hope to raise $16,525 more in round #2 to bring the total to $30,000

This special handmade axe may be @Capblyatbeard's last raffle prize blade. He made it for his father for Christmas. They're now donating it to raise funds for the Wild Hornets. Thank you!

Get a Wild Hornets custom campaign badge
👉$10 = raffle ticket and get in the daily draw for a free badge based on your fella/profile pic courtesy of @lacerantplainer
👉$200 = Sky Patron badge
👉$500 = Drone Forger badge

We're funding STINGs for the 105th Border Guards Detachment in Chernihiv, a prime Shahed route

The 105th is the leading Border Guards unit by number of Shaheds downed—mostly with STING interceptors

GRAND PRIZE
• Engraved axe handcrafted by @Capblyatbeard

• Signed flag from the 105th Border Guards

RUNNER-UP #1
Signed flag from 105th Border Guards

RUNNERS-UP #2-#3
Two sets: 6x Border Guards patches + coffee cup

RUNNER-UP #4
2x Border Guard patches: "SHAHED KILLER" + Tryzub

RUNNER-UP #5
Full-scale STING model—the first ever outside Ukraine. Made on the same 3D printers as actual STINGs

RUNNER-UP #6
Wild Hornets online shop—pick any 2 items: https://t.co/3gwOtWrFEK

(Merch purchases count for raffle tickets. Reply or DM the screenshot to @fellaraktar get tickets)

RUNNER-UP #7
3-volume "Matt Kozar" novel series signed by Ukrainian-Canadian author Victor Malarek (thank you, Victor!) Includes his new novel "Stolen" about ruzzia's kidnapping of Ukrainian children: https://t.co/HFepCrixBi

RUNNER-UP #8
3x Wild Hornets patches + STING keychain + STING mini-model

RUNNERS-UP #9-#12
Wild Hornets "Vyshyvanka" patch

🐝🐝🐝

Named drones count for raffle tickets!⤵️

👉 $500 = name a STING interceptor and get a guaranteed video of it downing a ruzzian drone: https://t.co/KYkbYofWC2

This funds critical equipment for two top anti-Shahed interceptor units—the Bulava unit and the 1020th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment

Every $1 helps!

Please reply or DM a screenshot to ensure the funds go to the units and get recorded as part of our raffle total

[UNITED24 Media @United24media]

Ukrainians were never built to surrender.

[Stories from Ukraine 🇺🇦 @storiesfromua]

@ArmedMaidan @wilendhornets

[Stories from Ukraine 🇺🇦 @storiesfromua]

@KanariFella @wilendhornets What a beautiful image 😍!! Thank you !

[UNITED24 Media @United24media]

“My son died. So I went to war.”

A Ukrainian defender explains why he chose to fight.

[Stories from Ukraine 🇺🇦 @storiesfromua]

This Wild Hornets raffle is still going! Don’t miss your chance to enter and win a mighty handcrafted axe. Donations will directly contribute to intercepting ruzzian drones that target Ukrainian cities! ❤️‍🩹

[🇺🇦Ukraine Resists ruzzian Genocide... Yeah Again @ArmedMaidan]

AXE A SHAHED—Wild Hornets Raffle!🐝

Fund STING interceptors for Border Guards in Chernihiv, a prime Shahed route

Win @Capblyatbeard's axe🪓

🎟️Donate $10/entry: https://t.co/s7X7M9S4cO
👉Reply with screenshot/DM raffle partner @fellaraktar
😎Merch = tix: https://t.co/ZYTBI6mgfg

Ends May 3

The 105th Detachment is the leading Border Guards unit by number of Shahed kills—mostly with STING interceptors

GRAND PRIZE
• Engraved axe handcrafted by @capblyatbeard
• Signed flag from the 105th Border Guards Detachment in Chernihiv

RUNNER-UP #1
Signed flag from 105th Border Guards Detachment

RUNNERS-UP #2-#3
Two sets: 6x Border Guards patches + coffee cup

RUNNER-UP #4
2x Border Guard patches: "SHAHED KILLER" + Tryzub

RUNNER-UP #5
Full-scale STING interceptor model (the first ever outside Ukraine)

RUNNER-UP #6
3-volume "Matt Kozar" novel series signed by Ukrainian-Canadian author Victor Malarek. Includes his new book "Stolen": https://t.co/IUHRociFaS

RUNNER-UP #7
3x Wild Hornets patches + STING keychain + STING mini-model

🐝🐝🐝

Named drones and merch counts for raffle tickets! 😎

👉 Name a STING and get a guaranteed video of it downing a ruzzian drone: https://t.co/KYkbYofWC2

👉Shop merch from six hero units and more at the Wild Hornets online store: https://t.co/ZYTBI6mgfg

To get raffle tickets, reply to the raffle post with your donation screenshot or store receipt, or DM our raffle partner @fellaraktar

Sincere thanks to the 105th Border Guards, Rak and prize donors Grit and Victor Malarek!🐝

[🇺🇦Ukraine Resists ruzzian Genocide... Yeah Again @ArmedMaidan]

Wild Hornets were on PBS @NewsHour! "This STING drone is a perfect example of the asymmetric warfare that Ukrainians excel at.

"It costs between $1,300 and $2,200—and it goes up against Iranian and russian Shahed drones that cost around $50,000 to make."

"Now the Iran war has exposed America's overreliance on multimillion-dollar munitions to shoot down cheap Iranian Shaheds, according to Wild Hornets spokesman Alex Roslin, who argues the math just doesn't make sense."

Alex Roslin, Spokesperson, Wild Hornets: "They're using $4 million Patriot missiles. Patriots are scarce. But the United States has reportedly used 300 Patriots to knock down Shahed drones fired by Iran. That's $1.2 billion of Patriots against 300 Shaheds.

"And we could have taken down those drones with our interceptor drones for around $600,000. That's something that the world could learn from Ukraine."

Many thanks to reporters @SimonOstrovsky and @katia_patin for your report!

[Defense of Ukraine @DefenceU]

The sun will rise tomorrow.

📹: instagram/moisei.bondarenko

[MAKS 26 🇺🇦👀 @Maks_NAFO_FELLA]

🇺🇦🦅 The Pentagon and at least one Gulf government are in talks to buy interceptors from Ukraine to repel Iranian drone attacks, — FT

Ukraine has been the first to use mass-produced interceptors, costing several thousand dollars, to destroy Russian versions of the Shahed.

Shahed cost just $30,000, while interceptor missiles such as the PAC-3 used in the Patriot system cost more than $13.5 million each.

[Stories from Ukraine 🇺🇦 @storiesfromua]

@lacerantplainer @wilendhornets Wow, thank you so much for making this for me @lacerantplainer !! Beautiful 🤩😇

[Stories from Ukraine 🇺🇦 @storiesfromua]

@wilendhornets remains one of the most effective crowdfunded volunteer organizations in fighting off russian aggressors. We need to keep them going! 🫡💙💛

[Wild Hornets @wilendhornets]

WILD HORNETS MOBILE LAB II RAFFLE🐝

You funded our first mobile lab—let's do it again

We're partnering with @Rebel44CZ to fund Lab II to speed up our drone R&D

🎟️Donate $10/entry: https://t.co/MPYT15RYcY
🤝First $2K matched—2x the tix!
😎Get a campaign badge for $50+

To enter: reply with screenshot or DM the raffle team

GOAL: $27,000 for a vehicle to serve as a mobile drone R&D station for field work with soldiers

Our first mobile lab—funded by a raffle last year—has been crucial for developing drones, including STINGs, Ukraine's top anti-Shahed interceptors

MATCH: The first $2,000 in donations will get double the tickets thanks to a generous matching donation by @tomgpalmer

Everyone who donated to the fundraiser already will also get doubled tickets—thanks to generous matching donations by a Romanian friend, @Swidstrand and @base1172.bsky.social

BADGES
Donations of $50+ qualify for a campaign badge

👉$50 = Hive Keeper
👉$200 = Sky Patron
👉$500 = Drone Forger

Reply/DM your donation + pic/fella on white background = badge artist @lacerantplainer will reply with your badge!

GRAND PRIZE
Soccer ball signed by 16 players of Ukraine's National Team—donated by @TymuliakM

RUNNER-UP #1
Flag of the 3rd Assault Brigade's Drone Interceptor Battery

RUNNER-UP #2
Flag of the 93rd "Kholodny Yar" Mechanized Brigade

RUNNER-UP #3
Hand-painted Ukrainian Easter egg (Pysanka) set predating WWII—donated anonymously

RUNNERS-UP #4-7
4x STING merch sets (model STING + patch)

RUNNER-UP #8
WWII UK Army bayonet—donated by @8ymgdz7igk.bsky.social, who won it in a prior raffle

RUNNER-UP #9
-Ukrainian traditional Motanka doll of protection ("Berehynia") made by @Ukrainian_dolls—donated by @2ug2ug
-Wild Hornets wool figurine made by Lviv artist Zoryana (https://t.co/WUdY6VAglT)—donated by @Wendehopes

Merch and named drones count for raffle tickets

👉Shop our online store—includes merch from six legendary military units: https://t.co/MAEv4YpgAr

👉Name a Wild Hornets drone: https://t.co/Qh0ngBZPeC

To get raffle tickets, reply with donation/receipt screenshot or DM it to our raffle team @Wendehopes, @KanariFella or @Kerri970

Thank you to raffle partner Jakub Janovsky @Rebel44CZ, who runs the respected Oryx OSINT blog! Thanks also to our matching and prize donors and our raffle/badge team!🐝

[Oriannalyla 🇺🇦 @Lyla_lilas]

❤️🫂A boy went to Germany for 3 years as a refugee, and, with his mother they decided to return to Ukraine.
The boy was apprehensive about going back to school, thinking that all the children had forgotten him.

Watch their reactions:

Video: malvina_mel

[UNITED24 @U24_gov_ua]

Ukraine’s defenders are tough, but they have 1 soft spot—animals❤️

They go through all the hardships together. There isn’t a safer place on the front, other than beside Ukrainian warriors. And there isn’t a cozier one, other than beside their cute pets.

https://t.co/lXHFuxPWwT

[Wild Hornets @wilendhornets]

For yet another year, one of the best gifts for Ukrainians is a drone — for yourself, a loved one, or even a barely known defender running a fundraiser in their Instagram Stories.

Thanks to our warriors, we are welcoming another year in a free and independent country. We’re grateful to everyone who stood with us and helped strengthen Ukraine’s defense this year.

Happy New Year 🎆

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Happy New Year, Ukraine!

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[UNITED24 @U24_gov_ua]

“Today is day 131 — we have returned. We will continue to do our job.”

Denys ‘Bars’ and Dmytro ‘K2’ from @93OMBr1 brigade held their position for over 130 days, eliminating 7 russian troops during their first contact.

Support Ukraine’s defenders:
https://t.co/lXHFuxPWwT

[Wild Hornets @wilendhornets]

Wild Hornets are producing more interceptor STING drones than the enemy launches Shaheds at Ukraine 🔥

The next goal is to have three interceptor STING drones for every Shahed launched.