What can't be seen can't be hit
Camouflage protects not only the metal, but the people inside the vehicle or the dugout.
Weaving nets that hide Ukraine's defenders since 2014.
50+ volunteers in Kyiv weave camouflage nets by hand, every day. You buy the fabric, we turn it into protection for soldiers and their vehicles.
- 2014
- weaving since the war began in the east
- Every day
- the workshop is open
- 50+
- volunteers
- €3,000
- needed each month for fabric
About us
We don't do marketing. We just weave.
There isn't much to say about us, and we've never been good at talking about ourselves. Many of us started in 2014, when the war first came to the east of Ukraine. Others joined after February 2022, among them women who had to leave their homes in the east, moved to Kyiv and wanted to be useful.
Every one of us has a family, a job, a life of her own. Yet every day the frames fill up again. However tired she is, each volunteer finds the time to come in and keep weaving.
No big speeches. Just strips of fabric, tied one by one, by people who refuse to stop.
How we work
A workshop that never stops
Strip by strip, fabric is woven into a base mesh stretched across large frames. Finished nets are packed into bales and sent directly to units at the front.
Scale
From a single frame to a helicopter
Our nets have grown with the need. Today we weave them on a giant scale, big enough to cover trucks and heavy military vehicles. Once, we even made a net for a helicopter.
Why it matters
Why a net still matters in a war of drones
This war is watched from the sky. Reconnaissance drones hang over the front line day and night, and whatever they spot can be hit within minutes. A camouflage net breaks up the outline of a vehicle, a position or a piece of equipment, so it disappears into the field or forest around it.
Small cost, huge difference
A net costs a tiny fraction of the vehicle it hides. And nothing compares to the lives of the crew.
Always in demand
Nets get torn, burnt and shredded by shrapnel, and the landscape shifts from summer green to autumn brown. Units need replacements all the time.
Next to everything this war demands, a net may look like a small thing. For the crew underneath it, it isn't small at all. That's why we keep weaving.
In the field
Our nets at work
Photos sent back by the units: vehicles and positions hidden under nets from our workshop.
Delivered
In the hands of those who defend us
Every net goes directly to the defenders who use it. These are some of the soldiers who have received them.
Support us
Your donation becomes fabric
Our volunteers give their time and hands for free. What we can't make ourselves is the material, so every euro you donate goes to buying fabric for the nets.
Monthly minimum
€3,000
This is how much fabric our volunteers can weave through in a month: the minimum we have to raise to keep the workshop running at full capacity. Anything above it goes straight into more fabric and more nets.
There are no small donations
Our strength isn't a few big donors, but many people who care. €5 or €10 a month, given regularly, becomes a stable budget the workshop can rely on.
300 people × €10 a month = €3,000a full month of fabric
monobank jar
Pay with any Visa or Mastercard, Apple Pay or Google Pay, from anywhere in the world.
Donate via monobankPayPal
Send any amount to our coordinator's PayPal:
nataly.zakharenko@gmail.comPrivatBank card
For transfers from Ukraine:
5457 0822 9420 5641Every euro is accounted for
Reports on every fabric purchase are published in our Facebook group, and you can ask our coordinators for a report at any time. Nothing is hidden: everything goes to protecting soldiers and their equipment.
Thank you
Letters from the front
We don't do this for recognition, but every one of these letters means the world to us.
Contacts
Get in touch
Have a question, need a report or want to help in another way? Call or message our coordinators. And if you're ever in Kyiv, come and weave with us.