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This story is about the real Christmas miracle ✨ Last year, a soldier with the callsign Sokyra (Axe) wrote to Santa and asked for nothing for himself. He asked for toys for Ukrainian children instead. This year he wrote to us again with the same request.

So, I want to ask Secret Santa to give these children at least a little bit of hope. If it isn't too much trouble and you have the chance, please buy, collect, or simply gift some toys to the kids".

This story is about the real Christmas miracle ✨ Last year, a soldier with the callsign Sokyra (Axe) wrote to Santa and asked for nothing for himself. He asked for toys for Ukrainian children instead. This year he wrote to us again with the same request.

"As a father, I cannot think about anything other than my children. And this cursed war has taken the lives of so many children and their parents.

How many Starlink terminals do you think a foundation our size has sent to the front in four years? A hundred? Five hundred? 1,099. And the alternative to them is... 🧵

Earlier this month our forces had satellite outages that hit actual operations. So we work with our eyes open. The window is open now and might not be later, and the only sensible thing is to use it while it's there.

How many Starlink terminals do you think a foundation our size has sent to the front in four years? A hundred? Five hundred? 1,099. And the alternative to them is... 🧵

The signal goes up to orbit and comes back down, and terrain stops mattering, and most Russian jamming stops working. We're grateful for it, genuinely. Ukraine would be fighting a much uglier war without it.

How many Starlink terminals do you think a foundation our size has sent to the front in four years? A hundred? Five hundred? 1,099. And the alternative to them is... 🧵

Two years ago, we had an idea: what if we asked soldiers to write letters to Santa? An actual letter, the kind you write as a kid. 55 of them wrote back. We showed those letters to our community, and 66 people stepped up to become Santas. That was the first Secret Santa: youtu.be/OLm8lGqHefE

What does a Ukrainian soldier want for Christmas? The answers are below 🎄

These are letters from soldiers still waiting for their Santa. All of them different people, with different lives. But every one has a wish we would love to make come true before Christmas. So maybe one of you will become a Santa for them?

Our website is temporarily offline, and here's why. A critical vulnerability was found in PHP, which powers a large part of the internet. It allows unauthenticated remote code execution, so we took our site down last night.

"A drone war." Haven't we heard this before? They said the same about the Second World War. Machines, engines, technology. What now? 👇

Hi, it's the Dzyga's Paw media team 👋 A lot happened in September, and we can't wait to tell you about it. All the important updates are below 👇

And we spent a day with Pikachu, UGV pilot of the Da Vinci Wolves, who invited us into his safehouse. 34 minutes, and worth every one of them.

Hi, it's the Dzyga's Paw media team 👋 A lot happened in September, and we can't wait to tell you about it. All the important updates are below 👇

Mid-month brought good news. $16,343 raised for 8 STARLIGHT strike drones, thanks to Jonathan MS Pearce and the ATP Geopolitics community. They're going to James and his comrades in the Azov Corps' 3rd International Battalion. Full report coming soon.

Hi, it's the Dzyga's Paw media team 👋 A lot happened in September, and we can't wait to tell you about it. All the important updates are below 👇

We started the month by closing a small project for the Pentagon UAV Battalion. They raised most of the money themselves, we covered the rest, and the equipment went out. Projects like this are possible thanks to your general donations. Thank you!

Hi, it's the Dzyga's Paw media team 👋 A lot happened in September, and we can't wait to tell you about it. All the important updates are below 👇

Last December, Ukrainian soldiers wrote letters to Santa. And the miracle happened: they got their presents, sent by people from all over the world 🎁 Watch how last year went, and join via the link in the following tweet 👇 youtu.be/UGbJAy2MdsE...

There's a good chance you've already read Russian propaganda without knowing, because it arrived looking exactly like a newspaper you trust. Same layout, same fonts, same logo. The only thing that gave it away was one character, and it wasn't in the article 🧵

The EU and US sanctioned the agency. The US seized 32 domains in September 2024. Researchers counted 959 campaign posts in the month that followed. This stuff is cheap to run and very hard to kill.

There's a good chance you've already read Russian propaganda without knowing, because it arrived looking exactly like a newspaper you trust. Same layout, same fonts, same logo. The only thing that gave it away was one character, and it wasn't in the article 🧵

It was in the domain. The operation is called Doppelganger, run by a Russian firm, the Social Design Agency. They clone European news sites by copying the original HTML character for character, then change nothing but the address.

Somewhere on a position, a soldier sat down and wrote a letter to Santa. We got it. And together with you, we can make it come true ✨ Once a year, our team turns into Santa's helpers. At Christmas, we deliver presents that you sent to the Ukrainian soldiers from all over the world.

This year, some soldiers did ask for Starlinks and gear for their units because, for a few of them, a miracle is close to the only way this equipment arrives. But they also asked for hobby supplies, warm clothes for long stretches on a position, books, Lego sets, and sweets.

Russians prioritize killing drone operators over almost any other target. Our founder, Dimko, flew ISR drones in Donbas through 2025. He filmed his own day and walked The Telegraph through it.

All of it serves one purpose: live footage streamed to the units below, so the infantry knows what is coming and artillery knows where to hit. "My priority is to keep the infantry safe. They are the kings of Ukraine's battlefield, and they are doing the hardest job ever."

Russians prioritize killing drone operators over almost any other target. Our founder, Dimko, flew ISR drones in Donbas through 2025. He filmed his own day and walked The Telegraph through it.

The camouflage on his drone is hand-painted, so a russian interceptor looking down sees terrain instead of a drone. Launch happens in an open field with no cover, then the crew runs back to the treeline to a van that works as their command post. That van was crowdfunded by this community.