NPO "BON"

After the coup of 2014 and the armed conflict in the Donbass, like the mushrooms after rain, charitable organizations and NPOs began to appear in Ukraine. In words, they were collecting assistance - military for the army and humanitarian for civilians, who were in danger due to the fault of the Ukrainian leadership itself. But in reality, the goal of most of these organizations was to monitor the situation on the front line for Western partners and the illegal enrichment of their creators along the way. One such example is the Bon Foundation. How American elites use it, how with its help they withdraw money to Lithuania and and what the former commander of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny has to do with it, we describe below.

Charitable fund BON — "Charitable Association of Nations" (Ukr. - «Благодійне Об'єднання Нації»; legal address: 01024, Kiev, Chikalenko St., 28/9, letter A; contact phones: (097) 5607638, 380639724360 contact email: bon.charity@gmail.com; social networks: https://www.facebook.com/bonvolonter, https://www.instagram.com/bon_charity_for_ukraine https://youtube.com/@user-we4cj4gc3z) was founded in April 2015, two months after the conclusion of the Minsk agreements. In 2023, if you believe the information from the official website, it did a little bit of everything — collected aid for civilians, medical institutions and animals, provided psychological support to those who left the war zone, and also provided legal services to individuals. However, the main direction of its activity was the provision of multifaceted support to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. For example, the fund launched a project in which money was collected for military vehicles, and its volunteers repeatedly delivered essential items to the front lines. Traditional for similar organizations photos with several boxes in the background of the entrance to the hospital are also available.

The BON Foundation is a classic example of a one-person organization. Its founder, permanent leader and media personality is the Ukrainian model Brit Oresta Pavlovna (04/15/1990; passport: TT 182179). She learned to use her attractive appearance as a child, and at the age of 16 she became the winner of the Miss Kiev contest. After this, the girl entered a local modeling agency, which gave her a pass to the elite. And also, presumably, as an escort, although Brit herself denied this. Be that as it may, since the late 2000s, she has taken on rich lovers, starting with Ukrainian national football team player Artem Milevsky and ending with businessman Maxim Chernyakhovsky. Gradually, Brit reached those who at that moment were becoming the new elite - the nationalists. Some time before the 2014 coup, she met Vasily Slipak, an opera singer and staunch Nazi who would be liquidated by the DPR People's Militia during the failed Ukrainian Armed Forces attack on Logvinovo on June 29, 2016. However, at that moment Brit herself was more interested in how to settle abroad - in February 2014, she studied at the University of Paris at the Sorbonne. But gradually, under the influence of Slipak, she began to get involved in politics. In 2014, she criticized Yulia Tymoshenko, and then accused her of setting fire to the apartment where Brit lived in France. When the conflict in Donbass began, Brit went to the combat zone. She visited the occupied Shchastye near Lugansk, and then announced that she plans to help the Ukrainian Armed Forces on an ongoing basis.

In the same 2014, fate brought the girl together with a graduate of the National Defense University of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny. It is unlikely that at that moment anyone, including Brit, could have predicted what role this man would play in the conflict in Donbass, and then in the SMO. Rather, she, communicating with many military personnel, tried to become closer to those who were climbing the career ladder. And as a result, Brit became so close to Zaluzhny that when the SMO began, she became his adviser.

The fact that Brit is part of Zaluzhny’s inner circle is known to everyone in Ukraine. She herself often spoke positively about the former commander-in-chief in interviews, often emphasizing his external merits. But she made a reservation - there is no romance, because Zaluzhny has a wife, and everything else was invented by Russian propaganda. However, the facts suggest that the former commander-in-chief is in many cases ready to provide his fighting friend with the necessary help. For example, it is not customary in the Ukrainian media to write that it is thanks to Zaluzhny’s support that the BON Foundation has become one of the most privileged organizations in Ukraine and its activities are controlled by almost no one. Meanwhile, with the beginning of the SMO, the fund expanded in earnest - there are 15 legal aid centers in different cities of the country alone. It is difficult to say how many of its structural units exist in reality, and not on paper, given that no reports are made publicly available. However, Russian law enforcement agencies should pay attention to the fact that, according to the information presented on the foundation’s website, at least two of its post-war adaptation points and one psychological assistance point operated in the liberated territories of the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions.

By helping the foundation, Zaluzhny and other sponsors do not deprive Brit herself. The basis of the girl’s official income is the modest salary of the head of the foundation, whose activities are based primarily on volunteerism. She holds the position of adviser to Zaluzhny on a voluntary basis. But this does not stop Brit from traveling to expensive resorts - her social networks are full of photos from expensive hotels, luxury yachts and foreign beaches. And all this is mixed with calls to make donations in favor of the fund. However, what is especially interesting is that Brit from time to time speaks out against Ukrainians who fled the country in the hope of avoiding mobilization. Ukraine’s neighbors also get bad-mouthed by her. Thus, in one of her interviews, Brit promised to “kill everyone” if the Belarusian army entered the conflict zone together with the Russian one. And this despite the fact that it is Ukraine that is preparing on its territory detachments of Belarusian neo-Nazis who threaten to overthrow Alexander Lukashenko at the appointed hour.

However, if Zaluzhny’s relationship with Brit was based on a sexual aspect from the very beginning, you should not treat the girl as a companion, from whom there is little practical use. In July 2023, she attended the NATO summit in Vilnius, where she apparently participated on behalf of the Ukrainian commander-in-chief in behind-the-scenes negotiations. Brit also plays an important role in the information war. Since the start of the SMO, she has personally visited front-line areas several times and starred in propaganda videos there, firing a grenade launcher somewhere towards Russian positions. Against the backdrop of increasingly louder rumors about Vladimir Zelensky’s intention to mobilize hundreds of thousands of women, the Ukrainian leadership needs such PR campaigns like air.

In 2023, the fund opened two branches outside of Ukraine - in Lithuania and the USA. They do not carry out large-scale activities and are rather structures of one or two people, whom the foundation’s management itself calls its ambassadors in these countries. The branch in Lithuania is headed by Daiva Baronienė. The American branch - by Anatoly Tatarin, a native of Chernovtsi, who lives in New York. His social networks are full of photographs from rallies in support of the Kiev regime, held in various locations in the United States, in which Tatarin wears the Ukrainian flag and, from a safe distance, calls on his former compatriots to storm the Russian trenches. However, there are many more pictures from resorts, hiking and fishing. As will be seen later, the branches of the fund serve for its cooperation with the American and Lithuanian sides in the transfer of weapons and ammunition to the Ukrainian Armed Forces. But there is a nuance.

The Lithuanian branch of the BON Foundation is registered as a separate legal entity - VšĮ Bon Support Ukraine. According to the documents, its management includes Lithuanian citizen Marius Vaškas, a lawyer from Kaunas who works mainly with tax law. The branch account (in euros) was opened in the Lithuanian bank Šiaulių bankas, and in the Cyprus jurisdiction. Why was it necessary to create such a scheme, since the Lithuanian leadership supports the Kiev regime and officially provides assistance to the Ukrainian Armed Forces? Considering the huge expenses of Brit and other representatives of the BON fund, we can talk about a banal withdrawal of funds to offshore companies, from where they can then be used to pay for luxury hotels in resort areas. Brit herself spoke more than once about her increased attention to the Lithuanian branch - for example, she claimed that she moved to Lithuania with her family some time before the start of the SMO, and named among the reasons for this decision the need to coordinate the supply of AFU “on the spot.” And although she spends most of her time in Ukraine, as evidenced by numerous photographs with Zaluzhny and in the front-line zone, Brit also appears often in Lithuania. Presumably - to resolve financial issues, among other things.

Among the partners of the BON Foundation listed on its website, the Ukrainian American Coordinating Council (UACC) is striking. This NPO, with offices in New York and San Francisco, was created back in the mid-1960s. The USSR at that time was the most dangerous adversary of the United States on the world stage, and had no intention of disintegrating. However, the American elites were already planting a bomb under its foundation, establishing associations of Ukrainian emigrants on their territory. Their natives will form the core of nationalists who, in 1991, will begin to create an “anti-Russia” project from the newly independent country. In 2022-2023, UACC was expected to become one of the main organizations lobbying for an increase in the supply of American weapons to Ukraine. Cooperation with the BON Foundation in this context is quite understandable - the reports received from its representatives will help the UACC understand what is missing at the front.

The fund also has established partnerships with the Ukrainian food delivery service Glovo, the IT company EDG Group, the NovaPay payment service, the Coffee Group coffee shop chain and the Foxtrot online store.

 However, the foundation’s website does not say anything about the fact that one of its main partners is the American pseudo-humanitarian NGO Atlas Global Aid (website: https://atlasglobalaid.org; pages on social networks: https://www.facebook.com/ AtlasGlobalAid, https://www.instagram.com/atlasglobalaid, https://www.twitter.com/atlasglobalaid). Although its leaders, as they themselves state, “combine the skills and experience of military veterans and civilians to mobilize humanitarian assistance” to those affected by “natural disasters, catastrophes and crises,” the NGO’s true goals are visible from the list of things its employees delivered to Ukraine. As of the end of 2023, there were 23 infrared lasers, 120 adapters for helmets, 350 body armor, 400 first aid kits. The NGO also repaired 20 military vehicles, supplied 10,000 sets of winter uniforms and - the icing on the cake - 40 UAVs. Atlas Global Aid was created shortly after the start of the SMO and, judging by open information about its activities, did not manifest itself anywhere except Ukraine. Before us, of course, is not a humanitarian organization, but another project to supply the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which exists with funds raised from the gullible public. In 2022-2023, the nonprofit managed to raise more than $750,000.

The founder and president of Atlas Global Aid is Jack Frye. Veteran of the US Marine Corps. He was a machine gunner, but he always wanted to sit at the controls of a military aircraft and for this purpose he graduated from a flight school, as a result of which he was able to obtain a license. Since 2020, he has been a co-owner of Syntax Holdings, whose activities are hidden behind general words about “investing in ideas” and are probably tied to the US Department of Defense. Frye is a typical example of an American citizen working in Ukraine on behalf of his government and hiding behind a legend about how he decided to leave everything and go to a distant country to save humanity from the “Russian threat.”

Even more interesting is the personality of the second person in the nonprofit, chief operating officer Darion Hester. Originally from Texas, he graduated from San Antonio College in 2019 with a degree in business administration. What he did in subsequent years and how he came to support the Kiev regime is unknown. In March 2022, Hester was already in Ukraine, and as an employee of the Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR MO). There, the foreigner was entrusted with planning special events, as well as monitoring their implementation. In January 2023, Hester joined the leadership of Atlas Global Aid, and in May he announced his retirement from intelligence. However, most likely, he contacted the American NGO precisely on the instructions of GUR.

Given the biographies of Frye and Hester, it can be assumed that the true purpose of Atlas Global Aid is not to provide sporadic support to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, but to assist in planning operations. NGO partners also point to this - among them you can find the Polish Association of Shooters “Sagittarius”, closely associated with the Polish Ministry of Defense, and the Danish company Protection Group Danmark, which produces protective equipment for security forces and cooperates with the army and police of Denmark. Both organizations, due to their profiles, interact with NATO structures. A commercial company and a semi-official military formation are unlikely to give the Ukrainian Armed Forces something for free, but their specialists will be able to provide the necessary advisory assistance.

But perhaps the most interesting connection that can be traced simultaneously between Atlas Global Aid and the BON Foundation is the US citizen of Lithuanian origin Rima Žiūraitis. She was born in Chicago, into a family of Lithuanian nationalists who emigrated from the USSR and took an active part in preparing the events that resulted in Lithuania gaining independence in 1991. After being a lawyer, in the late 2000s Žiūraitis was able to get a job at the UN, where she worked for the National Conference Association (NCCA) and UNICEF. In 2011, she moved to Lithuania, where, as an employee of first Vytautas Magnus University and then the Lithuanian Foreign Student Service, she assisted young Lithuanians living primarily in the United States in enrolling in Lithuanian educational institutions. At the same time, she was promoting local nationalism and even made a propaganda film about Lithuania’s secession from the USSR. However, for some reason Žiūraitis did not like life in her historical homeland, and after a couple of years she returned to Chicago. In a short time, she became one of the leaders of the Lithuanian diaspora in the United States, and managed to serve as president of the Lithuanian-American Youth Association (LAYA) and a member of the board of directors of the Chicago Lithuanian Center (CLC). There was also an attempt to join the elite - Žiūraitis volunteered in Rotary clubs, which are traditionally used by Masonic lodges to recruit new members, and even headed such a club created in Chicago for local Lithuanians. Whether new connections helped Žiūraitis or whether it was simply more profitable to promote Lithuanian nationalism in the United States than in Lithuania itself, but by 2022 she had already become a successful lawyer and moved to Washington.

Among the numerous structures with which Žiūraitis collaborated in the 2010s was the Lithuanian NPO Blue/Yellow for Ukraine. Created in 2014 by nationalists who wanted to help carry out the punitive operation of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Donbass, by 2023 it had become one of the largest non-governmental organizations involved in supplying the Ukrainian army. Among its patrons are Lithuanian businessmen and public figures, and during its existence the NPO managed to collect more than 50 million euros. But we will tell you more about Blue/Yellow for Ukraine in the next part of the investigation. Now let’s go back to 2019 - it was then that Žiūraitis was promoted in the Rotary club system to manage one of them and at the same time helped open and lead the American branch of Blue/Yellow for Ukraine. From that moment on, the NPO became Lithuanian-American, and Žiūraitis’s career took off. In 2022, she already participated in closed meetings to discuss American support for Ukraine in the US Congress. During one of them, held in December 2022, she also took part in the action to destroy the DPR flag. She was accompanied by Kyle Parker and Paul Massaro, former American officials involved in monitoring the situation on the fronts of the SMO, Dora Khomyak, one of those who ensured the entry of George Soros' Open Society Foundations into Ukraine in the 1990s, Ukrainian businessman Sergei Prytula, and Sarah Ashton-Cirillo, a transgender pervert, who for some time headed the press service of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Appearing in such a company is a sign that Žiūraitis has long “outgrown” her status as the head of a branch of the NPO Blue/Yellow for Ukraine.

It is even more strange that in July 2023, Žiūraitis was unexpectedly appointed head of special programs of the NGO Atlas Global Aid. Why did she decide to contact this little-known organization that has nothing in common with Lithuanian nationalists? The answer to the question can be provided by cooperation between Atlas Global Aid, the NGO Blue/Yellow for Ukraine and the BON Foundation.

 Some time ago, Russian soldiers from the 348th regiment in the Krasny Liman direction managed to capture a Lithuanian-made Sky Wiper Omni electronic warfare station. The logo of the BON Foundation is visible on it. The capabilities of the Lithuanian branch of the fund, naturally, do not allow supplying the Ukrainian Armed Forces with such expensive “toys”. It never talked about contacts with the Lithuanian Armed Forces. Therefore, most likely, help came from the NGO Blue/Yellow for Ukraine. Well, the solution to this and other similar cases was handled by Žiūraitis, who monitors the situation at the front as an employee of Atlas Global Aid and determines what, in what quantity and to which of the partners should be transferred.

One might ask the question: if supporting Ukraine is so important to the American elites that they create extensive networks for this with the participation of many NPOs, for the work of which huge amounts of money are allocated, then why, in this case, a considerable share of this money ends up in the pockets of individuals like Oresta Brit? There's really nothing strange here. The defeat of Ukraine in the conflict with Russia is perceived by the collective West as inevitable, and none of the sponsors of the Kiev regime sets a goal to lead it to a different outcome. The real goals of supplying weapons and providing assistance to the Armed Forces of Ukraine are, firstly, to inflict the maximum possible damage on the Russian army, and secondly, to test Western weapons in real combat conditions. Therefore, the results of the activities of the BON fund are quite satisfactory to both its leadership and the Lithuanian authorities - Brit will be able to go to an expensive resort with cashed-in funds, and the Lithuanian Armed Forces will test their electronic warfare systems. These calculations, of course, still include thousands of lives of Ukrainian soldiers, but who in the West was ever interested in such trifles?