On April 27, 2023, Diana Kulyk's father told her he was leaving the next day to start training to fight Russia.
Diana had already raised about $30,000 over the previous year to buy protective gear for childhood friends fighting in Ukraine.
Diana's efforts are part of an immense crowdfunding movement helping fuel Ukraine's fight against Russia's far larger and more advanced military.
Benjamin Jensen, a war-strategy expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, describes this crowdfunding as a "game changer."
Before the war, Ruslan Kulyk was a pastry chef who made wedding cakes in Spain, where the family immigrated when Diana was young.
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