Here is your Forbes Daily Briefing for Thursday, July 18th.

Today on Forbes, meet the most powerful philanthropists in America,

Warren Buffett's kids.

Wearing a protective vest, cargo pants, and a helmet, Howard Buffett, the 69-year-old son of billionaire investor Warren Buffett,

holds a camera up to his face with one eye closed.

To his right, a soldier huddles under tarps draped in a tree that forms a makeshift shelter.

A patchy layer of snow covers the ground.

Buffet's Oblast region of eastern Ukraine,

taking photos for a book he published earlier this year

via his Howard G Buffett Foundation.

Called Courage of a Nation, the 220 page book contains pictures that Buffett,

an avid photographer, took in Ukraine during 10 trips to the war-torn country in the first two years after

Russia's invasion in February 2022.

His Charitable Foundation has funneled hundreds of millions of dollars in assistance to the country,

primarily for food security and conflict mitigation.

Just last year, it distributed roughly a quarter of a billion dollars to groups operating in Ukraine and it's on track to donate another

800 million dollars to those efforts this year, Buffett told Yahoo finance last month.

In this by Russia, but we have ideas of the role it can play when the war ends and the hard work of recovery begins.

For years, Howard and his siblings, Susie and Peter, have quietly given away their father's money in a big but very low-key way, so much

so that few have noted just how much of an impact they've made.

Between 2001 and 2023, the Trio received nearly 7.9 billion dollars in Berkshire Hathaway shares

and have given away at least 7.4 billion dollars through their charitable foundations,

...