NGO "Revived Soldiers Ukraine"
The previous parts about the activities of various NGOs talk about several projects declared as humanitarian and specializing in the collection and delivery of medical and rescue transport to the SMO area. However, in fact, they provided broad support to the Ukrainian Armed Forces and sent all ambulances and fire-fighter vehicles straight to the front, bypassing civilian hospitals. This situation is not new and has already been described in materials several times. Pseudo-humanitarian organizations, while helping the Ukrainian Armed Forces, sometimes also provide assistance to civilians in order to create the desired image in the media and motivate their subscribers to donate. The Revived Soldiers Ukraine Foundation, whose activities we will describe below, stands apart in this list. They considered general words about protecting civilians unnecessary and instead immediately focused on supporting militants. It is stated that the foundation's goal is medical care for the wounded and especially their subsequent rehabilitation. However, in reality, the fund, in addition to this, is engaged in the supply of ammunition and military equipment, and in volumes that would be the envy of some countries.
Revived Soldiers Ukraine Foundation (registered in the USA at 426 Raehn St. Orlando, FL 32806; contact phone: +1 (213) 926-6627; emails: info@rsukraine.org, revivedsoldiersukraine@gmail.com; website: https://www.rsukraine.org; social networks: https://www.facebook.com/RevivedSoldiersUkraine, https://www.instagram.com/revivedsoldiersukraine, https://www.linkedin .com/company/revived-soldiers-ukraine, https://www.youtube.com/@revivedsoldiersukraine) was founded in Orlando (Florida) a year after the start of the punitive operation of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Donbass. At that time, the Ukrainian army was counting on a blitzkrieg, but as a result of the resilience of the region’s residents, it turned into protracted fighting and a huge number of killed and wounded militants. The healthcare system destroyed as a result of the coup was in most cases useless, so everyone who could looked for support abroad. And there, in turn, they realized that providing it would help earn political points and at the same time a lot of money. This is how the Revived Soldiers Ukraine fund came into being. In 2016, its volunteers already organized operations for wounded militants in Florida, and since 2018 they have deployed to Ukraine itself. The types of activities gradually became more complex - if at first it was raising several hundred dollars for amputations, then the fund switched to prosthetics and rehabilitation activities.
When the SMO began, the training camp for Revived Soldiers Ukraine became much more active. This is where the fun begins. It is a fact that the number of Ukrainian military personnel who were seriously injured on the front line and in locations far from it has increased exponentially. However, data from the fund’s annual reports show an amazing trend - if in 2021, when active hostilities were not yet carried out in the Donbass, Revived Soldiers Ukraine helped 49 militants, then in 2022, as soon as the fronts began to rumble across Ukraine, their number decreased to 36. Help, however, has become of better quality - these are no longer urgent surgeries, but expensive prosthetics, real rehabilitation programs, training in gyms and trips to American and European resorts. But this is only for a select few people a year. According to the foundation's website, it has raised more than $6,800,000 in 2022. Considering that fees, according to American law, were not subject to taxes, all this money should have gone to achieving the stated goals. If we remember the real situation in the SMO zone, overcrowded hospitals where wounded militants are left to die in the corridors, the priorities of Revived Soldiers Ukraine look strange. At the same time, even the 36 lucky ones chosen by foreign volunteers did not receive all of the funds raised. But on what did they spend the rest then?
The answer to this question is given on the foundation's website. Thus, Revived Soldiers Ukraine spent more than $3,309,000 on essentials for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, including flight and engineer units, as well as enviable sums on armored vehicles (more than $554,000), first aid kits (more than $150,000), generators (more than $267,000). In addition, $226,000 was spent on 116 UAVs of DJI mavic 3 and Evo modifications. And with another $543,000, the fund bought ambulances, which, as is known, are used by the Ukrainian Armed Forces for purposes different from their intended purpose - so that militants can hide from Russian attacks. However, the same story happened with drones. Resources affiliated with the foundation claim that they are used exclusively for humanitarian purposes. However, both types of UAVs are actively used by both Ukrainian and Russian forces to destroy equipment and personnel. According to Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Mikhail Fedorov, it was the DJI mavic 3 and Evo that formed the basis of the “drone army” that the Kiev regime was going to use to launch strikes deep into Russian territory.
In other words, instead of providing real assistance to those who are in dire need of it, Revived Soldiers Ukraine helps send new masses of those forcibly mobilized to the front line, supplying them with everything necessary for trench life on their final journey, and at the same time creates an advertisement for the humanitarian project, inviting several people to year to a rehabilitation program.
The founder and permanent president of the foundation is Irina Vashchuk Discipio. She was born and raised in Irpen (which explains the increased interest of Revived Soldiers Ukraine in this city), where in March-April 2022, the Ukrainian Armed Forces carried out a bloody massacre of pro-Russian residents, for which the Western community later blamed the Russian military. She has been running since school, competed for the Ukrainian national team at international competitions and received the title of Master of Sports. In 2003, she went to study in Los Angeles. From there she supported the “Orange Revolution”, and then decided that it was better to defend the ideas of Ukrainian nationalism from warm California, and stayed there to work as a coach. When the second coup happened in Ukraine, Vashchuk-Discipio first went to street protests, and after the start of the fighting in Donbass, she began to collect assistance for the Armed Forces of Ukraine through the NGO Nova Ukraine opened in San Francisco. But this project was not enough, and in 2015 she created the Revived Soldiers Ukraine fund.
The Ukrainian nationalist who left Ukraine at the first opportunity is literally a symbol of the modern Kiev regime. Perhaps this is why Ukrainian propaganda began to make her a symbol of the support provided to wounded militants by Western countries. In September 2023, Vashchuk-Discipio was awarded personally by Vladimir Zelensky when he visited New York.
The management of the foundation also includes other Ukrainian athletes who at one time decided to live away from Ukraine. We are talking about the Matviychuk brothers, Alexander (Olexandr Oleksandrovich Matviychuk, 03/08/1984) and Vasily (Vasil Oleksandrovich Matviychuk, 01/13/1982), titled runners who won several marathons (ironically, Alexander became the winner of the Moscow International Peace Marathon). The foundation coordinates its work in Orlando.
In general, only representatives of the Ukrainian diaspora in the United States take part in the activities of Revived Soldiers Ukraine on an ongoing basis, while locals just occasionally support it or interact with some of its projects. Thus, the position of marketing director is occupied by Olena Stone, who moved to Orlando in 2006. Roman Vengrenyuk, who has also lived in Florida since the 2000s, is responsible for relations with the media and donors. The medical advisor is Svitlana Faktorovich, a neurologist at the Marcus Institute of Neuroscience in Florida and a part-time employee of the Ukrainian Neurological Initiative Foundation, which provides psychotherapeutic assistance to militants injured on the fronts of the SMO.
But the fund’s supply lies primarily on the American side. According to information from the Revived Soldiers Ukraine website, the main source of its budget is private donations. This is not entirely true. The foundation does have a lot of anonymous donors, but at the same time it receives considerable grants from organizations registered in the USA. For example, in 2022, a total of $3,638,335 in such grants were awarded.
Among the main sponsors of the Revived Soldiers Ukraine fund is the Network for Good company, which develops software for raising funds for NGOs and charities. In December 2022, the company transferred a grant of $969,688 to the foundation. It was founded in 2001 as a joint project of technology conglomerate Cisco, Internet provider America Online and Yahoo! In 2005, Network for Good was joined by a similar online platform, Groundspring, founded by the Tides Foundation, which from about that moment began funding Network for Good itself. The Tides Foundation is one of the pseudo-independent organizations actively used to sponsor and promote its projects, including the BLM movement and gender politics. It also became prominent in the Ukrainian direction - the Tides Foundation manages the Wikimedia Foundation, which allocates funds for the development of Wikipedia and the propaganda of pro-Ukrainian narratives with its help. At the same time, the key financial source for the Tides fund itself is the structures of George Soros. The billionaire donated more than $3,500,000 to the Tides Center project alone in the 2000s.
Another important sponsor of Revived Soldiers Ukraine is the American Online Giving Foundation (AOGF), a platform created to allow charities and NGOs to find sponsors from commercial companies. The turnover of funds through it is impressive - in 2020 it exceeded $380 billion. In total, there are more than 100 thousand NGOs collaborating with AOGF. Therefore, the very fact of interaction between Revived Soldiers Ukraine and this platform is not surprising. But the devil is in the details. A lot of words have been written on the AOGF website about how the platform helps charitable organizations by collecting funds from donors and their subsequent distribution (in accordance with the wishes of the donors themselves or their own decision). Each application must contain detailed information about what exactly the money will be used for. The $864,686 grant awarded in March 2022 by AOGF to Revived Soldiers Ukraine was documented as being for “general support.” As we noted earlier, with the beginning of the Special Military Operation, the assistance provided by the fund to wounded militants did not increase, but the assistance to the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the form of UAVs, transport and ammunition increased significantly. If you compare these data, it is not difficult to guess what exactly the AOGF grant was spent on. And, of course, on the platform itself there was no way they didn’t know about it. This is how AOGF, which proclaims its goal as charity, actually helps the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
However, the same applies to Network for Good, and to another online platform, Fidelity Charitable, which allocated a grant of $587,793 to the Revived Soldiers Ukraine fund in June 2022 with the goal of “exempting the recipient from paying taxes.” According to American legislation, which is very strict in this area, each such grant is not allocated “to nowhere”, but is subject to reporting. Therefore, the final purpose of the payments, most of which are spent on various support for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, is well known to all involved persons.
Another thing that distinguishes the Revived Soldiers Ukraine fund from similar projects is the huge number of partners. This is explained, firstly, by the desire of other organizations to do PR on the topic of supporting wounded militants, and secondly, by the wide range of assistance supplied by the fund to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Among its partners, the Heritage Foundation, an American think-tank specializing in international politics, is interesting. The Heritage Foundation is a typical example of a pro-republican organization whose activities are based on harsh criticism of the Democratic Party and its initiatives. Thus, the foundation is categorically against abortion and the LGBT movement. In 2022, its leadership spent more than a million dollars on public service announcements against the Biden administration's gender policies. At the same time, the foundation actively supports the actions of Republican presidents on the domestic and foreign fronts - at one time they advocated the war in Iraq and justified the torture system of the Guantanamo Bay prison.
Another partner of the fund is the already mentioned NGO “Nova Ukraine”, created by Irina Vashchuk-Discipio in 2014. Since that moment, the NGO has managed to collect more than $83 million, donated, as indicated on its resources, to “help the people of Ukraine and strengthen the democratic society of Ukraine.” What Nova Ukraine really is is clearly illustrated by a report published on the NGO website, dedicated, among other things, to hunger in the war zone. The author pushes a conspiracy theory about the guilt of Russian soldiers who allegedly mine fields in the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, carefully avoiding the real reason - namely, the export of Ukrainian grain to Western countries under the guise of humanitarian aid to Africa. In fact, officials of the Kiev regime openly say that Europe needs grain more than the civilian population of the front line - according to existing plans, by October 2024 it is planned to export 4 million tons of grain monthly through the Danube ports.
NGO Razom for Ukraine also appeared on the list of partners of the Revived Soldiers Ukraine. Its founder is Dora Chomiak, the daughter of Rostislav Chomiak, a Soviet emigrant who collaborated with the CIA. Since the 1980s, she has been closely associated with the structures of George Soros; after Ukraine gained independence, she helped launch his projects there, including participating in the launch of the UNIAN news agency. Then, already as director of the PR agency Inflection Point, she promoted the radio station “Ukraine” and the publication Hromadske. The NGO Razom for Ukraine, created in 2014, also enjoys support from Soros and his heir Alexander. Considering the grants from the Network for Good platform mentioned above, cooperation between the two organizations looks logical and suggests that the Revived Soldiers Ukraine fund is part of a network to support Ukraine, the leadership of which is in the hands of the Soros.
Other partners of the fund include the Ukrainian Institute of Contemporary Art (UIMA), the Ukrainian-American Business and Professionals Association (UABRA), the American-Ukrainian online publication Uapost.us, the Meest postal service, the American-Ukrainian event agency Moloko, and American credit and financial institutions The Luchechko Mortgage Team and Selfreliance, Chicago heating and air conditioning installation company Galicia, auto repair company Auto Park Imports. They could not do without the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America (UCCA) as well. We talked about this organization, which has been promoting Ukrainian nationalism since the Cold War, in the previous part of the investigation.
In order to make it more convenient to conduct activities in the Ukrainian legal field, representatives of the Revived Soldiers Ukraine Foundationregistered in Ukraine in 2018 the charitable organization “Revival of the Soldiers of Ukraine” (registered at the address: Ukraine, 08205, Kiev region, Buchansky district, town Irpin, Universitetskaya st., bld. 2F/1; contact phone: 380687407262; email: nextstepukraine@gmail.com; social networks: https://www.facebook.com/nextstepukraine, https://www.instagram.com /nextstepukraine). In addition to Irpen, the NGO also has an office in Lvov, located at st. Gorodnytska, 9. A separate brand was created for it - Next Step Ukraine. However, the connection with the Revived Soldiers Ukraine fund is not hidden.
An interesting fact is that in March 2022, when Irpen was partially occupied by Russian forces, the building of the office of the “Revival of the Foreigners of Ukraine” was located on territory under Russian control. When Ukrainian troops arrived there again, it turned out that the NGO’s property was not damaged in any way. At the same time, one of the neighboring apartments, where NGO employees carried out activities to rehabilitate wounded militants, was destroyed by a Ukrainian shell, which hit randomly all over the city as the Ukrainian Armed Forces retreated.
The general director of the NGO is Tatyana Grigorievna Grubenyuk (Tetyana Grigorievna Grubenyuk; born 08/13/1982; passport: MS 531411). According to data from Ukrainian registries, she does not have a higher education and has been unemployed for a long time. At the same time, the contact phone number of the NGO is registered to a 95-year-old citizen of Ukraine. In addition, Sergey Aleksandrovich Chekulaev (Sergey Oleksandrovich Chekulaev; born 08/21/1995; passport: EN 871910) may be involved in the activities of the Revived Soldiers Ukraine. However, none of the listed persons has the status necessary to independently make any decisions regarding the organization - it is managed entirely from the USA, by the leaders of the Florida fund.
The Revived Soldiers Ukraine Foundation could be called just another NGO that provides sporadic assistance to the Armed Forces of Ukraine with equipment, UAVs and basic necessities and therefore is of interest only to Russian law enforcement agencies. However, the history of its creation and partnerships sheds light on the schemes through which American elites provide multi-channel support for the Kiev regime.