00:00We're just finishing up a supply drop here in Mi'klaq, unloading all of this stuff here.
00:10After college, I went into the army and I did eight years as an infantry officer and
00:15I served in Afghanistan.
00:16This past summer, watching the Afghan drawdown as the U.S. forces went back home, I was very
00:23emotionally kind of distraught because this was the culminating chapter for something
00:27that I spent so many of the years of my life dedicated to.
00:30As the conflict in Ukraine kicked off, I said, hey, maybe there's a chance I can do something
00:36here.
00:51That has grown into what's truly an international organization, where we have people from all
00:56different countries all around the world, different time zones.
00:59We have remote people who volunteer on the internet with outreach and organization administration,
01:05and we have people here on the ground driving supplies.
01:08We're currently with our partners, Stay Safe Ukraine, who are dropping off a huge supply
01:13load of clothing, food, medical supplies, baby formula, and all of these wonderful items.
01:21This warehouse is all going to help people in need that have been refugees from these
01:25occupied areas.
01:31So right now I'm in Lviv, which is a fully functioning first world city.
01:36And so if you're here, we can go to the stores, the shelves are fully stocked, the patterns
01:42of life are normal.
01:43We can drive down the street, get stuck in traffic.
01:46As you keep going closer to the conflict area, now instead of just checkpoints, you have
01:50big fighting positions with overhead cover and places for the vehicles to be dug in.
01:58Simultaneously here we are going out for burgers while across the street they're getting ready
02:01for a war.
02:14The first week, just because we had like Ukraine in our name, literally everyone was opening
02:20their pocketbooks.
02:21You know, $50,000 would just show up and we're like, wow, this is great.
02:25And then after a week it went down to next to nothing.
02:28We're watching the Russian forces switch their tactics.
02:32And so at the beginning of the war, they tried to blitzkrieg where they were just trying
02:37to come in from all three directions and just take over the whole country in a couple of
02:40days and that didn't work.
02:42So now they're doing a much more doctrinally correct Russian assault, which involves using
02:48massive artillery fires to pulverize everything in advance of their ground troops.
02:53And so what this means is that there's going to be increased civilian casualties.
02:58We look at Mariupol.
03:00That is a perfect example of what we can expect for cities such as Mykolaiv and Kharkiv as
03:06the war progresses.
03:08So there's going to be immense human suffering in days to come.
03:12The need has shifted to become this long-term sustainment of these people who are unable
03:18to go to the store because there's no store there anymore.
03:21It got blown up.
03:22There's a huge need for resources in this conflict, for money, for fuel, for donations
03:28of medical supplies, clothing and food.
03:32And those are the things there that anybody can do.
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