In April 2024, the Come Back Alive Foundation and the VIDI group of companies within the Intelligence Drive project raised UAH 15,255,720 to provide the Ukrainian Marine Corps brigades with command and control units for unmanned aerial vehicles.
In June, the Foundation delivered five UAV command units to the Marines. The total cost of the vehicles, including camouflage nets, is UAH 10,957,765.
One UAV control unit each was provided to:
- 35th Separate Marine Brigade named after Rear Admiral Mykhailo Ostrohradskyi;
- 36th Separate Marine Brigade named after Rear Admiral Mykhailo Bilynskyi;
- 37th Separate Marine Brigade;
- 38th Separate Marine Brigade;
- 140th Separate Reconnaissance Battalion.
Due to cost optimization, the Foundation managed to save more than UAH 4 million of accumulated funds. Therefore, the project also purchased five new Mitsubishi L200 pickup trucks for the Marine brigades. Their cost is UAH 4,809,375. UAH. 511,420 of this amount was funded from the general accounts of the Come Back Alive Foundation. The brigades' command identified passable transport as an additional need that the Foundation was able to cover with the saved funds.
The total cost of the transferred property under the project is UAH 15,767,140.
*Purchase and transfer amounts may differ in the reporting due to changes in the hryvnia equivalent of the value of the goods due to exchange rate fluctuations.
