{"id":44858,"date":"2015-11-10T18:26:50","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T18:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uacrisis.org\/?p=37382"},"modified":"2015-11-12T11:24:28","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T08:24:28","slug":"37382-frantsuzskaya-aktivistka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/en\/37382-frantsuzskaya-aktivistka","title":{"rendered":"French volunteers determined to keep helping Ukrainian army despite complexity of the process \u2013 French activist  \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=K9v5uNzedfE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WATCH IN ENGLISH<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Kyiv, November 10, 2015.<\/strong> <\/em>French activists who are willing to help Ukrainian army in the ATO zone face difficulties as the French Embassy in Ukraine does not give them much chance to freely provide assistance from France. However, volunteers find ways to assist the soldiers in the ATO in particular through the people who are based in Ukraine. \u201cWe know that it\u2019s hard for the soldiers and that they often need specific stuff like bulletproof vests or sleeping bags of a special type. We\u2019ve invented a way: we sell CDs and with money we get for those, we purchase sleeping bags or bulletproof vests. We have released a CD with a collection of 35 songs that the soldiers sang or listened to while in the ATO zone. With the money collected we bought sleeping bags for Ukrainian servicemen,\u201d said French activist Ingrid Grisard at a press briefing at Ukraine Crisis Media Center. Grisard also said volunteers have prepared another CD for Christmas sale \u201cLove Your Motherland\u201d. French activists were also collecting the money for servicemen in the ATO zone by selling brand t-shirts \u201cUkrainian Armed Forces\u201d and pens branded with \u201cATO hero\u201d, only 35 pieces were produced to increase people\u2019s interest to them due to their uniqueness.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside Ingrid Grisard works Cyril Bogaert &#8211; French volunteer of the Association \u201cFrance. Ukraine. Solidarity\u201d that provides humanitarian aid to the children of internally displaced and to the children who lost their fathers in course of the ATO. \u201cApart from the financial aid we are also providing moral support. I have been writing letters to the soldiers in the ATO zone for a year and a half now, every day in the morning and in the evening to give them hope and support them morally,\u201d French activist noted.<\/p>\n<p>Volunteers were providing assistance to \u201cAidar\u201d and \u201cAzov\u201d battalions. \u201cSeveral months ago servicemen of Azov battalion wrote to me that they got nothing to eat. I was shocked: how is it possible? We collected 60kg of pate and groceries in three days and sent it to Ukraine,\u201d said Grinsard. According to the activist it is not possible to send the parcels by post, that\u2019s why they are sending small parcels of several kilograms with the people who are going to Ukraine or with the buses of a Ukrainian company travelling from France to Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover volunteers may be helping not only a particular brigade or a battalion but a particular person as well. Thus, two months ago money was collected to help a Cyborg who required an urgent surgery due to the problems with his back. \u201cWe want to help the soldiers so that Ukraine is free, and we will be helping you till the end because we love Ukraine! Ukraine is the last frontier of our freedom. If Ukraine falls, Europe will fall as well. The war &#8211; ATO \u2013 is not only Ukraine\u2019s war but that of entire Europe, we are free thanks to the ATO soldiers,\u201d emphasized Grinsard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WATCH IN ENGLISH Kyiv, November 10, 2015. French activists who are willing to help Ukrainian army in the ATO zone face difficulties as the French Embassy in Ukraine does not give them much chance to freely provide assistance from France. 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