Solutions to win: Ukraine WOW and Come Back Alive recreate 1991 flag to fund ground robots for military
Activists of the People's Movement of Ukraine sewed it at a time when people faced persecution for displaying Ukrainian symbols and when finding fabric in the required colors was difficult.
In 2026, Ukraine WOW, with the support of the Verkhovna Rada, produced 1,000 copies of the flag in collaboration with the Come Back Alive Foundation. Each copy has an individual number and a postcard signed by Ivan Zaiets, one of the lawmakers who carried the original banner into the parliamentary chamber on August 24, 1991.
Zaiets recalled that lawmakers decided to bring this very flag into parliament on August 24, 1991.
A copy can be obtained for a charitable donation of 40,000 hryvnias. All funds raised will be transferred to the Come Back Alive Foundation to purchase ground robotic systems for Ukrainian troops.
The ground robotic systems will be used to evacuate the wounded and deliver medicines, food, ammunition, and other essential cargo to the front line. According to Oleh Karpenko, deputy director of the Come Back Alive Foundation, such systems allow dangerous tasks to be carried out without directly risking the lives of soldiers, medics, and drivers.
"Where one ground robotic system can transport up to 500 kilograms of cargo in two hours without putting soldiers' lives at risk, it would take 25 people who would have to be in the strike zone of FPV drones, and much more time. That is why the front's need for such systems is extremely high today, and providing them to the military and training operators is one of the foundation's priority areas," he said.
According to Ukraine WOW co-founders Yaroslava Hres and Yuliia Solovei, producing the 1,000 copies required 26 kilometers of fabric and more than 2,000 hours of work. Four people worked on each flag.
Background
It should be noted that on August 24, all Ukrainians should be celebrating a holiday — Ukraine's Independence Day — but the full-scale war, now in its fifth year, has made its own adjustments. This will be the 35th anniversary of Ukraine's independence. And, unfortunately, for the past 11 years, Ukrainians have been defending it with weapons in hand, driving the Russian occupier from their land.
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