Volunteers from the “Networks for You” movement delivered another batch of humanitarian aid to the participants in the special operation. “Moscow Evening” spoke with their leader Ksenia Novozilova.
Ksenia started volunteering ten years ago. Since the beginning of SVO, I have been looking for options for organizing assistance, and my father Dmitry Nikolaevich suggested the idea. Ksenia took charge of organizational issues, and mother Svetlana Nikolaevna began to study weaving techniques.
The first network was woven by all family members, by contacting close friends. Within a day new people started showing up on the doorstep. In the first week the team was already about 100 people. Interested people came from all over Moscow and the Moscow region, and that’s where it all started.
“Since the beginning of the special military operation, there has been a great need for additional camouflage for military equipment, combat positions and bunkers,” Ksenia Novozhilova told Vechernaya Moskva.
At that time, the capital had not yet prepared special spaces to train volunteers to weave camouflage nets in different patterns according to the season, as well as personal camouflage means.
“Then I opened with my family the first center in Moscow for collective weaving of camouflage nets,” Ksenia Novozilova recalls. “In this way, we created a point of attraction by joining forces aimed at helping the participants of the SVO. Through the families of the recruits and volunteers, direct contact was established and we were able to achieve perfect quality of the fabric. The number of volunteers has increased; people are already coming to Voikovskaya from all districts of Moscow and the Moscow region.
Today the volunteer team includes more than 4,500 people. All of them help military personnel serving in the Donetsk, Luhansk and Zaporozhye regions.
– With the beginning of the mass use of drones, the requirements for fighters have not changed. “All year round, the soldiers ask the men for camouflage nets,” says the head of the volunteer movement. – It covers the location, equipment and bunkers perfectly.
With each shipment of humanitarian aid, volunteers transport a separate portion of the shipment to hospitals in Kursk, Lugansk, Belgorod and Donetsk.
By the way
“Networks for YOURSELF” regularly organizes family master classes in the capital on weaving camouflage nets and other necessary things in the foreground. On May 29, one such event occurred in the Savelovsky district of Moscow. Special operations veterans participate in training new volunteers.