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4 Aug

🔥 "Wolves on the Hunt!" — our BIGGEST FUNSRAISER of the year is live! We are raising $500,000 for Da Vinci Wolves Battalion 🐺 Dzyga's Paw is committed to raise $250,000, while the other part will be raised by Ukrainian Da Vinci Wolves Charity Fund! dzygaspaw.com/wolves-on-t...

How many Starlink terminals do you think a foundation our size has sent to the front in four years? A hundred? Five hundred? 1,099. And the alternative to them is... 🧵

Earlier this month our forces had satellite outages that hit actual operations. So we work with our eyes open. The window is open now and might not be later, and the only sensible thing is to use it while it's there.

dzygaspaw.comWolves On The Hunt • Dzyga's PawDa Vinci Wolves Charity Fund and Dzyga's Paw are joining forces to equip Da Vinci Wolves Battalion with a variety of drones!

Which is why we buy now instead of planning to buy. What do you make of all this? We'd honestly like to know. And if you can, help us use the window: dzygaspaw.com/wolves-on-t... 🐺

How many Starlink terminals do you think a foundation our size has sent to the front in four years? A hundred? Five hundred? 1,099. And the alternative to them is... 🧵

The signal goes up to orbit and comes back down, and terrain stops mattering, and most Russian jamming stops working. We're grateful for it, genuinely. Ukraine would be fighting a much uglier war without it.

People here have been building backups and alternative links for years, and nothing has come close yet. But it comes with strings. In February SpaceX switched off every terminal in Ukraine that wasn't on an approved list.

How many Starlink terminals do you think a foundation our size has sent to the front in four years? A hundred? Five hundred? 1,099. And the alternative to them is... 🧵

Nothing. Starlink is how an enormous amount of this war actually runs. Talking to your own people, watching a feed come back from recon, flying something thirty kilometres past where radio would have died.

youtube.comDzyga's Paw Secret Santa Project - Bringing Christmas Spirit to the FrontlinesThe Secret Santa for Defenders project was one of the most special ...

Two years ago, we had an idea: what if we asked soldiers to write letters to Santa? An actual letter, the kind you write as a kid. 55 of them wrote back. We showed those letters to our community, and 66 people stepped up to become Santas. That was the first Secret Santa: youtu.be/OLm8lGqHefE

dzygaspaw.comSecret Santa 2026 • Dzyga's PawUkrainian soldiers wrote letters with their Christmas wish lists. Make one of their wishes come true, from anywhere in the world.

We're running it for the third year now. Read the letters, pick one, and become somebody's Santa 👇 dzygaspaw.com/secret-sant...

What does a Ukrainian soldier want for Christmas? The answers are below 🎄

These are letters from soldiers still waiting for their Santa. All of them different people, with different lives. But every one has a wish we would love to make come true before Christmas. So maybe one of you will become a Santa for them?

dzygaspaw.comSecret Santa 2026 • Dzyga's PawUkrainian soldiers wrote letters with their Christmas wish lists. Make one of their wishes come true, from anywhere in the world.

And if picking a letter isn't for you, a general donation works just as well. We use it to buy gifts for the soldiers whose letters nobody takes. Check out the project 👇 dzygaspaw.com/secret-sant...

Dzyga is resting up before the new work week. Highly recommended. Post a picture of your pet in the comments, we want to see how they're spending Sunday.

Our website is back online! Donations through the site are available again. You may still run into a minor bug here and there. If a donation does not go through, try again and let us know, we will sort it out quickly. Thank you for your patience.

Our website is temporarily offline, and here's why. A critical vulnerability was found in PHP, which powers a large part of the internet. It allows unauthenticated remote code execution, so we took our site down last night.

All data is safe. Nothing was compromised. And with the site offline, nobody can use it to spread disinformation or swap our payment details for a scammer's, which matters to us a great deal more than the downtime does. We know what the fix is and we're applying it now. Back shortly.

"A drone war." Haven't we heard this before? They said the same about the Second World War. Machines, engines, technology. What now? 👇

dzygaspaw.comWolves On The Hunt • Dzyga's PawDa Vinci Wolves Charity Fund and Dzyga's Paw are joining forces to equip Da Vinci Wolves Battalion with a variety of drones!

Support him here, we will buy more drones to let people stay alive: dzygaspaw.com/wolves-on-t...

Hi, it's the Dzyga's Paw media team 👋 A lot happened in September, and we can't wait to tell you about it. All the important updates are below 👇

And we spent a day with Pikachu, UGV pilot of the Da Vinci Wolves, who invited us into his safehouse. 34 minutes, and worth every one of them.

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We went to see Pikachu, UGV pilot of the Da Vinci Wolves, to find out what he takes with him to the positions. He invited us to his safehouse! He explains how Russia used GPS jamming to redirect Ukrainian drones into Finnish airspace, and why nobody shot them down. Watch it! youtu.be/ac7ob-flf8Q

Thank you for being with us in September!

Hi, it's the Dzyga's Paw media team 👋 A lot happened in September, and we can't wait to tell you about it. All the important updates are below 👇

Mid-month brought good news. $16,343 raised for 8 STARLIGHT strike drones, thanks to Jonathan MS Pearce and the ATP Geopolitics community. They're going to James and his comrades in the Azov Corps' 3rd International Battalion. Full report coming soon.

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Let's start this week with some great news! We raised $16,343 for 8 STARLIGHT strike drones! Huge thanks to Jonathan MS Pearce @atpgeo.bsky.social, who leads the ATP Geopolitics YT Channel, and his community for making it happen.

We also shared the key moments from Iryna's interview for the Voices of the Fight series on UFN. The part about why no donation is too small is worth your time.

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"Ukrainians have been living, fighting, and losing people in this war since 2014. The full-scale invasion did not begin the story. It only forced the rest of the world to pay attention." That's a quote from the recent Voices of the Fight series made on the UFN. Here are some of the key points 👇

Hi, it's the Dzyga's Paw media team 👋 A lot happened in September, and we can't wait to tell you about it. All the important updates are below 👇

We started the month by closing a small project for the Pentagon UAV Battalion. They raised most of the money themselves, we covered the rest, and the equipment went out. Projects like this are possible thanks to your general donations. Thank you!

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Another project done! This time for the Pentagon UAV Battalion, part of the 225th Separate Assault Regiment. They needed equipment to work more efficiently and raised $1,720 on their own. We covered the rest, adding $1,429 to get everything bought and delivered.

dzygaspaw.comFull Charge For Air DefenceDzyga's Paw with Fella Hendrix & Havoc are raising $16,000 to power air defense positions with generators, Starlink terminals, and power stations.

Then we launched a new fundraiser with Fella Hendrix and Havoc Six: $16,000 for power and connectivity at an anti-aircraft unit's positions. Less than $3,500 to go: dzygaspaw.com/full-charge...

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NEW FUNDRAISER! Together with Fella Hendrix and Havoc, we're raising $16,000 to power the Anti-Aircraft Missile-Artillery Battalion's positions with generators, Starlink terminals, and power stations!

Hi, it's the Dzyga's Paw media team 👋 A lot happened in September, and we can't wait to tell you about it. All the important updates are below 👇

Here's what our September looked like in numbers. Thanks to your donations, we delivered nearly $240,000 worth of equipment. That's incredible!

Ho-ho-ho! We launched on Saturday, and our Santas are already incredible. 43 of 130 letters were picked up in three days. The rest are waiting. Read them and pick the one that speaks to you 👇 dzygaspaw.com/secret-sant...

youtube.comWhat Ukrainian Soldiers Asked for Christmas? Secret Santa at the Frontline!What Ukrainian Soldiers Asked for Christmas? Secret Santa at the Fr...

Last December, Ukrainian soldiers wrote letters to Santa. And the miracle happened: they got their presents, sent by people from all over the world 🎁 Watch how last year went, and join via the link in the following tweet 👇 youtu.be/UGbJAy2MdsE...

dzygaspaw.comSecret Santa 2026 • Dzyga's PawUkrainian soldiers wrote letters with their Christmas wish lists. Make one of their wishes come true, from anywhere in the world.

Read the letters and become a Santa: dzygaspaw.com/secret-sant...

There's a good chance you've already read Russian propaganda without knowing, because it arrived looking exactly like a newspaper you trust. Same layout, same fonts, same logo. The only thing that gave it away was one character, and it wasn't in the article 🧵

The EU and US sanctioned the agency. The US seized 32 domains in September 2024. Researchers counted 959 campaign posts in the month that followed. This stuff is cheap to run and very hard to kill.

So when you hear Ukrainians just ask the world for money: that idea was built, hosted and paid for. Meanwhile in our own fundraiser, Ukrainians have raised $182,376 and the international community $82,509.

It was in the domain. The operation is called Doppelganger, run by a Russian firm, the Social Design Agency. They clone European news sites by copying the original HTML character for character, then change nothing but the address.

Germany's Foreign Ministry found nine German-language clones of major outlets and at least sixteen fully invented news portals. Same line throughout: refugees are a burden on your budget, the aid was stolen and resold, Ukraine is bankrupt, drop the sanctions.

A week ago we bought our drone pilots an EcoFlow for $2,654.41. Today they sent proof it's working. No grid at their basement position, and now the whole setup runs on it. We've received less enthusiastic invoices. What would you keep charged first in a week-long blackout?

Somewhere on a position, a soldier sat down and wrote a letter to Santa. We got it. And together with you, we can make it come true ✨ Once a year, our team turns into Santa's helpers. At Christmas, we deliver presents that you sent to the Ukrainian soldiers from all over the world.

This year, some soldiers did ask for Starlinks and gear for their units because, for a few of them, a miracle is close to the only way this equipment arrives. But they also asked for hobby supplies, warm clothes for long stretches on a position, books, Lego sets, and sweets.

dzygaspaw.comSecret Santa 2026 • Dzyga's PawUkrainian soldiers wrote letters with their Christmas wish lists. Make one of their wishes come true, from anywhere in the world.

127 letters are on our site. Pick the one that speaks to you 👇 dzygaspaw.com/secret-sant...

Russians prioritize killing drone operators over almost any other target. Our founder, Dimko, flew ISR drones in Donbas through 2025. He filmed his own day and walked The Telegraph through it.

All of it serves one purpose: live footage streamed to the units below, so the infantry knows what is coming and artillery knows where to hit. "My priority is to keep the infantry safe. They are the kings of Ukraine's battlefield, and they are doing the hardest job ever."

youtube.com24 hours hunting Putin's soldiers as a Ukrainian drone pilot | ExclusiveDimko Zhluktenko is a Ukrainian soldier who, until recently, operat...

Watch the full story on The Telegraph: youtu.be/uw0HD-atEmg

Russians prioritize killing drone operators over almost any other target. Our founder, Dimko, flew ISR drones in Donbas through 2025. He filmed his own day and walked The Telegraph through it.

The camouflage on his drone is hand-painted, so a russian interceptor looking down sees terrain instead of a drone. Launch happens in an open field with no cover, then the crew runs back to the treeline to a van that works as their command post. That van was crowdfunded by this community.

russian EW scrambles the compass readings, so the crew carries about five of them and averages the results. A feed interceptor picks up unencrypted FPV signals, giving them a few seconds of warning before one arrives.

Over $80K in equipment delivered to the drone pilots of the 25th Airborne Brigade "Sicheslav". Our "25th Strike" project is complete. We raised $80,209 and spent $81,619 to cover the brigade's request: 30 Starlink Minis, 2 UAVs, an EW station, 8 inverter generators, 4 EcoFlows, and drone components

And we want to say something about the people behind this number. One anonymous donor gave $40,000. That's amazing, and we are very grateful! Our partner CivDiv raised $5,579. And Nick Laidlaw raised $1,056. We're grateful for that in a way that's hard to put into a thank-you line.

Also, huge thanks to our partners from Instagram Battels and beers, Project Leaflet, and Frontier Conflict for sharing this project with their communities. The rest came from people giving what they could. Thank you for supporting this fundraiser!

In practice: positions that stay connected, crews that stay powered, drones that keep flying instead of sitting grounded for one missing component, and an EW station that makes the unit harder to find and harder to hit.