Helping Oleg in Ukraine

1

Some days ago Oleg wrote a Mail to the Tiddly Mailgroup about his situation in ukraine.
He posted the Link to his organization the National Ecological Center of Ukraine https://necu.org.ua.

They try to procure critical needs of Ukrainians, in particular,

  • medicines and primary medical care equipment, hygiene products, etc.;
  • means of protection, in particular bulletproof vests, bulletproof helmets, specialized clothing, etc.;
  • diesel, petrol and solar generators, as well as uninterruptible power supply systems;
  • long-term storage foods, baby food, drinking water purifiers, etc.;

When he first posted the link, I found it difficult to transfer money. Now there is a paypal-link

2

In Germany, PayPal is not willing to transfer Money to the account in Ukraine.
Does this work elsewhere? Is there another solution?

3

It is blocked for me in Italy too with PayPal.

4

I think the best way to go is to use a NGO from your country or an international one, where you know that they can help in the Ukraine. If you trust them you could engage there.

I personally wouldn’t send money to any bank account that I can’t verify, based on a story I can’t verify.

5

Lets not forget that before “the war, I abhor” the Ukraine was one of the countries known to have Internet criminals, phishers, spammers and social engineering hacks. I am sure they did not disappear, perhaps only got more desperate.

6

Olegh has been active in this community since 2016. In fact, in his first post to the group he kicked off a thread about Cyrillic characters in tiddler titles for static file generation that was one of the triggers for the addition of the “slugify” operator.

I can’t give useful advice on the best way to help Olegh, but I think I can at the least vouch for the fact that he is not a scammer.