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POPULAR FRONT

PREVIEW: Homemade Bullet Proof Vests in Ukraine

POPULAR FRONT

Jake Hanrahan

News, Politics

4.8978 Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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0:00.0

This is a preview for a Patreon only episode.

0:04.0

If you want to hear it in full, go to Patreon.com

0:07.0

slash Popular Front.

0:09.0

Click the bonus episodes tab at the top.

0:11.0

There were hundreds of bonus episodes there

0:13.6

patreon.com slash popular front unfortunately all our work gets to monetized

0:19.8

off of YouTube and various other platforms for nothing really other than showing the realities of war and conflict.

0:27.4

Unfortunately that doesn't sit well with the advertisers that these big companies have to keep happy.

0:34.0

So the way we make money, the way we keep going is we sell extra content on the Patreon.

0:38.8

For the price of about one pint a month, you get lots of extra content on the Patreon, bonus episodes, extra video content, all sorts.

0:47.8

If you want to support us and you want us to keep moving forward,

0:50.7

check it out. Patreon.

0:52.8

dot com slash Popular Front.

0:54.2

You've started this project where you're basically making kind of,

0:58.0

I don't want to say homemade, but you know, like your own independent bulletproof vests primarily for Ukrainian civilians who are working in areas where the war is still ongoing.

1:09.0

Maybe tell us about that, how did this project start?

1:12.0

Yeah, so I'm Medina I am a co-founder of

1:17.7

Bulletproof Ukraine and as you said we produce Bulletproof vests ourselves certified for civilians.

1:26.7

We started during the second week

1:29.6

of, after the full-scale invasion of Russia in Ukraine started and in the beginning it was just a search of space where we could be helpful. I started volunteering pretty much on the 24th and I was helping doing different kind of stuff like accommodation, logistics, etc.

1:56.5

And then on the second week I realized that there are already quite many volunteers who are joining

2:01.7

and I could maybe try to be helpful in areas that are a bit more complicated and I saw that there are many people who are either looking for Bull Fast or they are collecting money to buy them.

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