Gourmet pizza and supplies for Ukrainian defense forces

While Russian conscripts eat expired rations, we can supply Ukrainian ones with warm meals, coffee, and basic medical supplies

A few days before my family emigrated to the United States in 1994, a group of my classmates organized a send-off party for me. We were all barely fifteen, but we formed strong friendships. That was the last time I have seen all of them in person.

Since then, for 28 years I always found other places to visit than Ukraine. On occasion, over the years we sent gifts to one another. I just never really found the time to visit. I think that’s a story for another time.

Though I never visited, I often daydreamed about going there one day. I would go to Google Earth, find the streets I walked as a kid and look around and see what they looked like today. The thought of visiting was always there at the back of my mind. The Russian war on Ukraine has taken that away from me.

When the war started, I reached out to a few of my friends. Though I spent twenty-eight years acting like I had no roots in Ukraine, I could not sit still pretending like I don’t know anybody there.

One of my friends owns a pizzeria in Kyiv. She told me that she’s been giving away bread and coffee to Ukrainian volunteers — and whoever else needed food — for free.

I asked her if they needed money. My mom and I sent her some, and the idea to set up a GoFundMe was hatched.

The idea is simple — we raise funds in the US, send them over to “Art Pizza”, who in turn gets the ingredients, provisions, and basic medical supplies delivered into Kyiv. Ukrainian defense forces, first responders, and doctors get gourmet pizza and coffee for free — on us.

Russian conscripts get cheap gear and expired rations:

Ukrainian volunteers get gourmet pizza and coffee:

That’s how we win the war.

Link to GoFundMe: click here