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Re:Ukraine calls on hacker underground to defend against Russia by whatshisface on Thursday February 24, 2022 @10:27PM (#30463404)
>All your points seem to reduce support for and divert it from the Ukranian government and their military. Isn't that absurdly dangerous in this moment?

Almost none of the people on HN have anything to contribute to the Ukranian military. At the same time, all of the things related to actually living as a person in any country, at war or peace time, revolve around jobs, the economy and technology, things people on HN have a lot to do with.

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Re:Ukraine calls on hacker underground to defend against Russia by electroly on Thursday February 24, 2022 @10:45PM (#30463491)
You can donate money to the Ukrainian military. It's not very convenient (no PayPal etc.) but the military is accepting foreign donations via wire transfers.

https://ukraine.ua/news/support-the-armed-forces-of-ukraine/

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Re:Ukraine calls on hacker underground to defend against Russia by rightbyte on Friday February 25, 2022 @02:43AM (#30464631)
It is pouring in money to the Ukraine state from other state's money printers. Donating to the government in this case seems extremely pointless. Ukraine does not need money they need AA and AT weapons a month ago.

If you want to donate I would try to find some small scale relief effort that probably has no free Central bank money raining over it.

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Re:Ukraine calls on hacker underground to defend against Russia by jessaustin on Friday February 25, 2022 @05:40PM (#30473237)
...they need AA and AT weapons a month ago.

Given the success of Turkish drones against older Russian weaponry during the recent conflict in Artsakh, maybe the Turks could be convinced to test the drones against more modern versions? Although your point is correct, that the time to have arranged this has passed.

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Re:Ukraine calls on hacker underground to defend against Russia by jtsuken on Thursday February 24, 2022 @11:58PM (#30463865)
Here is a link to the Ukrainian National Bank's page with more payment options:

https://bank.gov.ua/en/news/all/natsionalniy-bank-vidkriv-sp...

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Re:Ukraine calls on hacker underground to defend against Russia by wolverine876 on Thursday February 24, 2022 @10:47PM (#30463510)
> Almost none of the people on HN have anything to contribute to the Ukranian military.

Many people here could participate in their cyber efforts, and/or know others who could. I would think HN would be an especially fruitful recruiting ground.

Also, public support worldwide is essential, as is evidenced by both sides' intense investment in it.

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