Emergency tacmed drive. Emergency Mavic Matrice 4E for the 125th, who are on active assault and need a drone now. Emergency support for teams who got scammed by a shady 'volunteer'. This raffle's a huge one because this week's needs are extra huge!

Proceeds will fund the drone and the teams who got scammed.

Updates

Our coffers have been so depleted lately that we don't have many updates coming in. However, the 10th received a package that included a Starlink mini that you provided.

Plus, do you remember the Khyzhak Brigade (the Predators)? Our contact there is one of their combat medics and sent a photo of the meds she purchased using UFL funds:

$2 TACO Tuesday Wednesday - there really was a framework?

This is an amazing pack for the $2 Tuesday ticket; a flag and unit patch for the 1st Battalion of the 143rd Brigade, plus a stamp sheet, postcard, and Patron fridge magnet. UFL_Arcaist even threw in a 3D printed drone keychain!

$5 Perun pack

The 42nd Brigade drone unit (Perun) sent a signed flag, their drone unit patch, and a patch from their 2nd Battalion. In addition, there are three jars of Minefield Honey - infused sunflower honey from a Ukrainian farm near Mykolaiv - and perhaps my favorite thing we have ever raffled off...a Ukrainian lawn flamingo!

$10 Edelweiss pack

Of course, Arcaist has a soft spot for the 10th Mountain Assault Brigade (Edelweiss), so he made the premium ticket out of their flag and t-shirt (size L-ish). There is also a beautiful challenge coin celebrating the armored forces of Ukraine and a tryzub patch. A masterfully-worded sticker joins a pair of crocheted boxing gloves for your car's rearview mirror. Lastly, a prop from a Ukrainian Vampire drone, also known as the Baba Yaga, has a handwritten message that I think we all can understand.

In closing:

No cheery or inspirational note from Scott this time. Instead you get an angry note from me, Robin. Don't worry; I'm not angry at you.

War brings out the best in some and the worst in others. It's a sad, infuriating fact that Ukraine and the Ukraine support sphere are littered with garbage people who prey upon our better natures to lie, cheat, and steal to enrich themselves under the guise of helping Ukraine. We've just been put in touch with four teams who were preyed on by one such monster: they were promised equipment that never came, and when they pressed the 'volunteer' about it, the 'volunteer' blocked them. We're striving to get them what they need, because Ukraine and Ukrainians deserve better than that.

That's part of what your raffle tickets and donations are doing this week: making up, in a small way, for what that garbage 'volunteer' did.

-Robin

Don't forget:

Givebutter may limit ticket purchases to 10 at a time, but as many of you know, you can always buy additional ticket packs without limit.

UFL has amazing art here if you haven't seen it yet!

And please note that although the event description mentions a livestream, there will be none. And while we do deeply appreciate those of you who choose to donate as well as buying raffle tickets, we want to make it clear that donations are not required to enter the raffle.

Huge 16 June UFL raffle you definitely want to see.

The word of the day is EMERGENCY