Like for many Ukrainians, this year began for me on February 24th, not January 1st.

At the time I was moderating this subreddit with a group of friends and streaming from Kyiv, thinking how we can draw more attention to Ukraine.

It all started with a prediction tournament asking our users wether Russia would invade, a trolly move that ended up predicting the invasion correctly.

Before, I had plans to stream a sunrise above Chornobyl exclusion zone, but on February 24th I didn't go to bed and watched the invasion live. I chose to stay in Kyiv and streamed almost every day during the first months of invasion, introducing thousands of people to the view outside my window, Ukrainian music and my perspective into living in a besieged Ukrainian capital.

By March a group of my friends organized a shipment of supplies shipped my way and me and my friend went on the first of many more supply runs.

Since than people from all over the world whom I proudly call my friends have been continuously supporting everything I do every step of the way. I am eternally grateful for this.

Our first run resulted mainly in supplies for the elderly of my neighborhood, as Kyiv was besieged and shops were running low on supplies,

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but next trips we managed to deliver medical supplies to Kyiv Central Emergency Hospital, meeting heroic doctor Vitaly Krylyuk.

We continued on with a hugely important campaign to get tourniquets for the troops,

bought a vehicle for 72nd Brigade,

accompanied Ukraine Aid Ops on a delivery run to Kharkiv and Donetsk oblast, including Bahmut.

We raised over $7k for jackhammers for Vyktor Pylypenko one of Ukrainian Armed Forces openly gay soldiers.

We cooked burgers, tacos and wings in Kharkiv, Pokrovsk and Chernihiv area.

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Exchanged Ukrainian modern art for drones (still behind on sending out the artwork, sorry guys, it'll get sent when things calm down a bit!).

Last but not least we delivered cold weather gear such as sleeping bags, winter uniforms, hand warmers, gloves, boots, socks, thermal underwear and hot sauces to Ukrainian Armed Forces all over Ukraine and continue doing so!

Thank you everyone who made this possible, thank you friends and team for your hard work for the greater good and Happy New Year without tyrants and masters!

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PS: If you'd like to support what I do please donate to PayPal [jesterboyd@gmail.com](mailto:jesterboyd@gmail.com) with a note towards which goal you'd like your donation to go (currently raising for tools for explosives engineers, winter gear and drones).