Like many other soldiers, Pavlo Vyshebaba, 37, a platoon commander with the 68th Brigade, had long been collecting donations to procure supplies for his unit, in his case using his poetry as an appeal.
But donations, which once flooded in via the web, have been lagging lately as the war drags on.
Mr. Vyshebaba recently took two weeks off from the war to give readings around the country in a push to ramp up contributions in person.
“I saw that the fund-raising on the internet at the beginning of 2023 stopped being effective, that maybe my audience was exhausted and we didn’t have victories for a long time,” he said.
“But we still needed all this stuff.”
Persons:
Pavlo Vyshebaba, Vyshebaba, “, ”
Organizations:
68th Brigade
Locations:
Kyiv, Ukraine