In just nine hours, the Prytula Foundation raised $5.5m from private donors to buy 50 FV103 Spartans used by the British Army
By Christmas, 50 hardly used FV103 Spartan armoured personnel carriers (APCs), until recently the property of the British army, and currently in warehouses in secret locations across the UK, will arrive on the frontline in Ukraine’s war with Russia in time for the toughest winter conditions.
The transfer, the largest of such APCs to Ukraine, is not due to British munificence nor to procurement by the Ukrainian ministry of defence.
It is instead just the latest example of the extraordinary scale and indeed speed of the crowdfunding campaigns that have been powering the Ukrainian military since the early days of the war.
#Ukraine: Four Russian BMP infantry fighting vehicles were destroyed in rapid succession by Ukrainian Stugna-P anti-tank guided missiles in #Donetsk Oblast. pic.twitter.com/5A9iVgxpOl
— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) October 30, 2022
