Ukrainian Crowdfunding Initiative Offers to Write Custom Messages on Munitions

Ukrainians have started an initiative which allows citizens to pay for custom messages to be written on munitions meant for use against the Russian Army.

The RevengeFor.com service was founded by volunteers from “Come Back Alive” Foundation and Militarnyi news agency.

Citizens can order an inscription on 152mm and 155mm artillery rounds, unguided missiles and R-27 air-to-air missiles which will target the Russian army. To do so, they will need to make a donation to the “Come Back Alive” Charity Foundation that provides assistance to the Ukrainian Army.

Each contributor will receive a photo confirming the inscription was made.

‘Come Back Alive’ received permission to import military goods back in March 2022. It has so far bought 3 Bayraktar TB2 combat drones, 100 Atlas UAS including 300 copters, 10 PD-2 UAVs and 25 “Leleka-100” UAVs for the Ukrainian military.

The idea of ​the project was born back in May, when one of the readers reached out to Militarnyi with a request for Ukrainian gunners to put an inscription “Revenge for MH17” on a projectile. The photo soon went viral.

Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17) was a scheduled passenger flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur that was shot down, allegedly by pro-Russian rebels, on 17 July 2014, while it was flying over eastern Ukraine. All 283 passengers and 15 crew were killed.

“We realized that many citizens of the world have many reasons to take revenge on Russia. But only nowadays there is a force that can actually do this. That force is the Ukrainian Army. Therefore, we decided to establish a connection between those who seek to punish Russia and those who do this every day,” Olexander Argat, co-founder of Militarnyi, explained the idea of ​the project.

The minimum sum that guarantees a “revenge” photo is $500. The upper threshold is not limited.

Ukrainian Empat IT is working on a second version of the website.

“We expect that there will be a lot of orders, first of all, from citizens of Western countries. Therefore, we already have ideas for version 2.0. For example, we want to give a choice of a ‘revenge’ carrier so that you can choose which ammunition will deliver messages to the Russian army,” said Empat founder Nazar Gulik.