At the end of April 2025, the news spread widely that the volume of donations for the needs of the Ukrainian army had almost doubled after the start of the operation in the Kursk region. We checked the reliability of these messages.
Information on the reduction of the APU Donates by 40% extended on April 30. The media and Telegram channels reported this with reference to unnamed sources among "large volunteers" in Ukraine. The fall was connected with the successes of the Russian army in the Kursk region, a high level of fraud with the donations and the general distrust of Ukrainians for fees for the needs of the Armed Forces.
Such messages published "Gazeta.ru","Federal Press" And "Kursk news feed"As well as Telegram channels Mash (1 million views at the time of writing this analysis), "Ukraine.ru"(119 000),"Voronezh sky"(33,000) and others.
The authors of the audited publications write that the reduction of donations is associated with the beginning of the “Kursk adventure” and simultaneously with the “successes of the RF Armed Forces” in the Kursk region. In the first case, probably, I mean offensive Armed Forces in this Russian region in August 2024. During the operation, Ukrainian units They took it Control some border areas, including the city of Suju. Russian troops Freed out Most of the captured territories by mid -March 2025, and on April 26, the General Staff of the Russian Federation announced About the "complete knocking out" of the Armed Forces from the Kursk region. It remains unclear why a decrease in the volume of the donates is linked with two events that occurred with a difference of almost nine months.
Viral publications do not specify, the volunteers of which funds reported a reduction in donations. Since 2014, and especially after a full -scale invasion in February 2022, many organizations have been operating in Ukraine and abroad that raise funds for the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and humanitarian goals. Three projects are considered the largest: the fund founded in 2014 "Turn around", Launched at the initiative of the President of the country Vladimir Zelensky in 2022 Platform United24 And Foundation of Sergey Pritula. Other well -known volunteer organizations that support the Armed Forces of Ukraine and are in Ukraine include Army Sos, PEOPLE's Project, volunteer headquarters "Zgraya", And the fund"Kol". In addition to these funds, there are also activists who independently organize fees for specific goals.
“Verified” failed to find public statements by the heads or official representatives of the above funds about the serious reduction of the donates in connection with the start of the offensive in the Kursk region or retreat from there. Moreover, on the same day when this information began to spread, "turn around" Published The post that the volume of revenues in April 2025 almost doubled the target indicators.
All major Ukrainian funds regularly publish reports on collected donations and where the money was sent. Thanks to these data, you can independently study how the situation at the front affects the amount and volume of donates.
So, on the official website "Turn up" placed Detailed infographics. For the analysis, “verified” chose only hryvnias, since in viral posts we are talking about reducing donations from Ukrainians. Judging by the schedule, in August 2024, when the Armed Forces of Ukraine began in the Kursk region, a significant decrease in the donates was not recorded: on the contrary, if at the beginning of the month the fund received about 3 million UAH daily, then after the start of hostilities on the Russian territory began to exceed 10 million UAH, and over the past two days of August, more than 100 million UAH came to the accounts. It can be assumed that the number of donations decreased in April 2025, when the RF Armed Forces returned control over the territory of the Kursk region, but at this time an increase in the number of donates was also observed. However, this is unlikely to be related to the statements of the Russian General Staff - the desire of Ukrainians to send a donation probably influenced Massive shelling of Kyiv At the end of the month.
If you look at the statistics from the beginning of a full-scale war, then, indeed, the fall of donations is noticeable: the most donated were received in February-March 2022, now their number is significantly lower.
A similar picture is also formed when studying the reporting of other large organizations. Although there is no such visualization on the website of the Sergey Pritula Foundation, you can study its reports for 2023 And 2024 years. In the year before last, volunteers gathered 1.9 billion UAH for the needs of the military, in the past - not much less, 1.8 billion UAH. Platform United24, by calculations The Opendatabot project, in 2024 received a donation for the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of about 16.1 billion UAH, 5 billion more than in 2023.
In general, the trend for all funds is the same: in 2022, a record amount of funds was raised, in 2023 a sharp reduction was observed, and in 2024 the amount of donations grew again. At the same time, over the past year, three of these funds were collected a third more of the donates than for the 2023th. It is unlikely that this would be possible if Ukrainian citizens from August 2024, when the operation in the Kursk region began, began to send almost half the donations. If in viral publications it is said about the disappointment of citizens with a retreat from the Kursk region, then more fresh statistics also does not confirm this theory. In the first two months of 2025, writes Opendatabot, these three charitable foundations raised almost the same amount of funds as for the entire 2023th.
Among Ukrainian activists is also popular service "Jar". It was developed by the Monobank, popular in Ukraine as a tool for personal accumulations, but in 2022 it began to be widely used to organize fees for humanitarian goals and the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Volunteers create their own “bank”, indicate how much they collect and for what purposes they collect, and other people can transfer money there. Monobank co -owner Oleg Gorokhovsky in March 2025 reportedthat in 2024, donations were sent through the bank in the amount of almost € 1 billion, but only in January and February of this year - € 141 million. Although not only the collections organized through the “banks”, but also the accounts of charitable foundations, as well as the cashback’s humanitarian aid, were unlikely to have such a picture if such a picture would have been formed if a number of 2024 years would have been the amount of the number of 2024 years Donations from Ukrainian citizens have almost halved.
Viral publications say that Ukrainians demotivate not only the retreat of the Armed Forces from the Kursk region, but also the distrust of charitable initiatives in principle. The attitude of the country's residents to such funds Studies Organization of Zagoriy Foundation. Judging by her report In 2024, Ukrainians continue to actively participate in charity, and only 20% of respondents declared distrust of funds working in this area. Although the level of participation of citizens remains at a high level, since 2022, in Ukraine, several criminal cases were instituted due to fraud related to donations (the latest similar case became It is known In early May). Such scandals can probably affect the overall trust of citizens, but not dramatically (at least this is not confirmed by either the statements of volunteers, or the results of research).
The Ukrainian media actively cover the activities of charitable foundations and monitor the number of funds they received - for example, the above Opendatabot annually issues reports on the fees of the largest organizations. However, in authoritative Ukrainian sources, “verified” did not find reports on a sharp decrease in the donates either in August 2024 or in March-April of the 2025th. Although some volunteers complained that recently it is more difficult to carry out the fees, analysts do not associate this with the operation in the Kursk region. They Select Other factors: firstly, the economic situation of citizens worsening over the three years of the war, and secondly, the segmentation of the donates-many began to send funds not to large funds for vague goals like the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, but targeted. At the same time, employees of charitable organizations agree that donations are more emotional than systematic - as a rule, revenues grow after massive shelling or other high -profile events.
The story of reducing the level of donations by 40% due to the “Kursk adventure” spread mainly in the pro-Russian media. The first post with this news Published Prochremlin Telegram channel Mash April 30 at 15:38 Moscow time, after which such data appeared in other channels and the media. Ukrainian and international publications did not disseminate such information.
Thus, the statistics of the largest Ukrainian funds refutes reports of falling the level of donations for the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine both at the beginning of the offensive in the Kursk region and with its completion.
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