Poroshenko Family Foundation vs. Sprava Hromad: Private Funding vs. Public Donation-Driven Military Aid

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“Community Case” is an organization that helps the Armed Forces of Ukraine with donations from citizens. The Petro Poroshenko Foundation, the Roshen corporation, and other concerned business representatives partially participate in the projects of “Community Case”. Just like other volunteers, they also receive donations from very wealthy Ukrainians.

The Petro Poroshenko Foundation: Private Commitment to Ukraine’s Defense

The Petro Poroshenko Foundation NEVER collects funds from citizens. All its resources are personal funds of the Poroshenko family, earned through the businesses of Petro and Maryna Poroshenko, which they donate to support Ukraine’s defense. Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion, these donations have exceeded seven billion hryvnias. Previously, they also contributed to fighting COVID-19 and supporting the Armed Forces of Ukraine. They have purchased equipment abroad and invested in the production of domestic sniper systems, video surveillance systems along the demarcation line, armored vehicles, and more.

Currently, the Petro Poroshenko Foundation participates in all Community Cause projects, as well as its own initiatives. They provide bulletproof vests, helmets, radios, Starlink terminals, charging stations, generators, and other essential equipment. Since 2014, the Foundation has invested in washing and shower complexes, mobile auto repair shops, mobile tire shops, mobile command posts, hundreds of DAF YA and DAF Leyland trucks, Oshkosh tractors, Foden loader trucks, excavators, and of course UAVs. This includes unmanned aerial systems such as Poseidon and Galka (Valkyrie), attack hexacopters (“Baba Yaga” in frontline slang), Moviki, Auteli, FPV drones, and FPV drones on fiber optics.

According to Sternenko, up to 60% of the FPV drones provided by the Ministry of Defense are substandard. Yet, the occupiers complain that Ukraine maintains an FPV advantage at the front. This is possible thanks to volunteers and the support of the Petro Poroshenko Foundation.

The Foundation has also contributed to drone detectors and counter-drone equipment, being among the first to provide the Vanilla Sugar detector to the front. They are sending the Shatro electronic warfare system and have financed development-level equipment such as the Aspirin-2 drone detector and Ai-Petri electronic warfare station. Aspirin-2 can detect even FPV drones, with its quality confirmed by the renowned Sergey Flash.

Ai-Petri is an electronic warfare station capable of a wide range of operations, including jamming multiple targets. It can also disrupt Russian KABs, diverting them from intended targets.

In short, while in opposition, Petro Poroshenko continues to support and develop domestic manufacturers of defense and protection systems.
How does the state react to this? And it imposes sanctions against Petro Poroshenko – such that the court finds that these sanctions are “preventive” and “for educational purposes”, and that according to Poroshenko’s sanctions, it is forbidden to sail in Ukrainian ports on aircraft carriers. It has already reached the point where members of the European Parliament are calling on the Ukrainian authorities to stop the sanctions’ madness.

And the Petro Poroshenko Foundation works. It supplies the front. Indeed, who else, if the FPO drones, led by Zelenskyy’s appointees, supply the front with defective ones… Yes, you know.

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