(With apologies for the potato quality photo. Givebutter's a great platform, but it absolutely butchers photographs sometimes.)

Each week, we raffle off something cool and uniquely Ukrainian for the benefit of Ukraine's frontline defenders. It's usually on Tuesday. We chose to push it back a day this week because of Tuesday's horrific attack on Poltava. Then, of course, Wednesday brought the attacks on Lviv and Kryvih Rih.

We're not pushing the raffle back another day. Know why? Because we do this for the defense of Ukraine. This one in particular supports the engineers, drone pilots, and sappers of the 91st Separate Okhtyrka Support Regiment. You may remember them from the time you bought them over 100 Sawyer gravity filters because they don't have reliable access to clean water.

Think of it as a direct flipping of the bird to russia.

This week we have three patches given to us by the 91st to raise funds to purchase and kit out a Bundeswehr truck which one of our volunteers will drive in from Germany later this month. We're loading it up with as many engineering goodies as we can:

Jackhammers (up to 5)
Generators
Augers (up to 5)
Chainsaws (up to 5)
A REB to provide a bit of safety from russian drones

Plus appropriate tires, toolkits, mud pumps ... anything we can add to facilitate the crucial fortification building, sapping, droning, and so on that these guys do.

The rectangular patch is 2.75"/ 7 cm x 5.25"/13 cm. The shield-shaped patches are 3.25" / 8.25 cm x 2.75" / 2 cm. All three are velcro-backed.

Every dollar from this raffle will go toward this truck and kitting it out.

As always, tickets are $2 and you may buy as many as you wish. Please note, however, that Givebutter limits individual purchases to batches no larger than 10.

Good luck!

Please note

Though 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.

If you leave a message with your donation...

So many of you leave kind messages for Ukrainians and Ukraine's defenders that we started a a Telegram channel, Twitter, and Instagram as a way to get them to the people they're intended for. Feel free to leave more messages, and to spread the word among your Ukrainian friends!

$2 Tuesday Raffle: Three patches from the 91st Separate Okhtyrka Support Regiment