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Posted: 2022-10-11 02:48
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Ukrainian soldiers urgently need body armor
In civilian life, Taras Myronyuk conducted a Ukrainian orchestra that toured the world — including gigs in San Francisco — and taught music at a university in Kyiv.To get more news about
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But after Russia invaded his country this year, the 51-year-old father of three enlisted in the nation’s armed forces and is a combat engineer with the rank of sergeant. In his company of 62 people, only two had body armor as of late March, he said.
“Ballistic protection is the biggest need that soldiers have, as well as medical supplies such as tourniquets, all of which can save a great deal of lives,” he said via text message.Now, Myronyuk and his cohorts have a dozen ballistic vests, paid for by his nephew, Andrew Vasylyk, co-founder of San Francisco’s StartupSoft, which hires Ukrainian engineers to work remotely for U.S. tech companies.
That’s obviously not enough. The scarcity of body armor is repeated among the tens of thousands of Ukrainians who joined its military and the Territorial Defense (a largely volunteer militia) in recent months.
“Think about it,” Vasylyk said. “You’re a young guy with zero army experience, at a battle with Russians, wearing nothing but a sweater and a winter jacket. The volunteers are under-equipped.”
Vasylyk and other Ukrainian ex-pats want to get body armor to as many of the nation’s soldiers as possible. Importing vests is expensive and time-consuming, so their focus is on supporting Lviv Defence Cluster, a Ukrainian organization now making hundreds of vests a day. But it needs money to pay for the raw materials.
Lviv Defence Cluster, which grew out of a now-shuttered body-armor factory in a Ukrainian city near Russia, has set up shop in converted factories in Western Ukraine where hundreds of Ukrainians sew durable fabric and cut special steel to make ballistic vests, which they supply to troops at their manufacturing cost of about $200 each. A letter from the Ukraine Ministry of Defense authorizes Lviv Defence Cluster as the main coordinator of producing body armor.
Before the war, Maksym Pliekhov and Yuri Federov ran a large factory in Kharkiv in the east of Ukraine — 19 miles from Russia — that manufactured ballistic vests, tactical gear, uniforms, gloves and other military supplies.
In late February, after Russia invaded the country, they fled to Lviv, on the western border near Poland. Immediately they sought contacts to set up manufacturing operations there. Five factories in the region that previously made goods from metal and textiles — they won’t say exactly what, for security reasons — agreed to retool to make the vests.
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