WE MIGHT EVEN BUY PLANES, COME BACK ALIVE FUND EXECUTIVE SAYS ON DOUBLE PURPOSE GOODS IMPORT LICENSE
24 June 2022
The Come Back Alive charity fund was licensed to import double-purpose goods. It may buy directly from foreign manufacturers and even might import planes and helicopters.
Andrii Rymaruk, MIM-Kyiv graduate and executive of the Come Back Alive fund confirmed the license and explained how they could expand their activities.
First of all, the Fund may buy directly from the manufacturers. It means that they do not need any intermediaries and thus cut costs. Secondly, the manufacturers guarantee quality.
- We may purchase the weapons, in particular lethal weapons. We even may purchase planes, Andrii said.
Overall prices decrease and we may buy more expensive goods.
- We are expecting 5% - 30% price reduction. Even if it is three hundred thousand hryvnyas cheaper, it is important because people donate, Andrii commented.
- We start buying unmanned aerial vehicles. We have already bought thirty-five hundred items since the beginning of the large-scale war or 70% - 80% of all quadcopters used in combat.
Simultaneously, the Fund supplies gear to snipers. Providing communication tools to our military fighting at the contact line is our third large-scale project. We have already purchased thirty-five thousand at 700 – 1200 US dollars apiece.
So far, we are supplying unmanned flying complexes. We will provide 10 Ukrainian complexes by the end of June and 15 later on.