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Crowdfunding Started in Norway to Buy
Bayraktar Drones for Ukraine
- Our
Burea
- 08:46 AM, July
19, 2022
Bayraktar-Vanagas: UCAV donated by Turkey and armed by Lithuanian citizens’ funds.
After a successful
campaign in Lithuania and Poland to buy Bayraktar drones for Ukraine, a similar
crowdfunding project has commenced in Norway to buy the Turkish-made drones to
help Kyiv in its war against Russia.
Some NOK 55 million
(about $5.5 million) are planned to be collected as part of the
campaign launched by Spleis and
transferred to the aid fund at the Ukrainian Embassy. As of writing this
article, 646 Norwegians have donated NOK 273,530. Funds will be collected for
79 more days.
“Lithuania collected 1 Bayraktar in three days, Poland collected 3
Bayraktars and Ukraine collected 3 Bayraktars in a few days. Of course, Norway
must do the same… Donate Bayraktar from the Norwegians to the people of Ukraine
— show solidarity in the fight against Putin,” the organizers of the fundraising said.
Each citizen can
donate about NOK 10 to be able to buy Bayraktar TB2. The first 1,000 sponsors
each donated more than NOK 250 ($25). They will be allowed to name the unmanned
combat aerial vehicle (UCAV).
More than $3 million
has been collected from 150,000 Polish people from June 28 until July 18. This
is 75% of the required amount of $5.5 million, the cost of a single unit of
Bayraktar. This initiative was launched by a well-known public figure, political
scientist and journalist Sławomir Sierakowski on the crowdfunding platform Zrzutka.pl.
Earlier, Lithuanians
donated around $6 million to buy the UCAV under a campaign launched by Internet
broadcaster Laisves TV, of which some $1.6 million was used to buy equipment
and missiles for the drone.
Funds collected by
both Lithuania and Poland was later used to provide other forms of assistance
to Ukraine; since the Turkish drone maker, Baykar, donated them to Ukraine for
free. The company is also donating
three more drones to the Ukraine Army, after it learnt about Ukrainian people’s Bayraktar
fundraising initiative which aimed to raise around $15.4 million within a week.
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