“The Novorossiya Humanitarian Battalion boasts on its website that it provided funds to buy a pair of binoculars used by rebels in eastern Ukraine to spot and destroy an armored vehicle. Another group, Save the Donbass, solicits donations using a photograph of a mortar shell inscribed with its web address and the names of donors. Yet another, Veche, states that its mission is to ‘create modern, combat-ready’ military units fighting Ukraine’s central government.”
Source: Russian Groups Crowdfund the War in Ukraine – NYTimes.com