Hello everyone, this is Roman! I will try to tell you what I see and feel these last few days! You probably would like me to get in touch more often, to talk to YOU, but my main problem is that I don’t know English, I use a translator, the language is very difficult for me, this is due to several concussions during the war, I can very often forget what I did yesterday, so all the main notes are on my computer! I live in my apartment in the city of Odessa, I have a wife, her name is Anna, she is 21 years old, she is a student! My city has not been shelled for the last 1-2 weeks, but at the same time we experience daily power outages for 5-8 hours (sometimes more), as you know, I am the owner of 3 Telegram channels (Warriors Ukrainian, Roman Chernenko and Israel & Palestine). Many people ask where I work, what money I live on, and whether I use donations for my personal purposes and how much I earn thanks to Telegram channels! Telegram channels bring me 0$ and sometimes I go into the red to place my ads on other channels, the only profit is your paid reactions ⭐️! You ask how I live? I work part-time as a loader in a warehouse, and when I have time I work part-time as a taxi driver - this brings me ~550$ a month. Of course, there are individual cases when someone makes donations to me personally, but this happens very rarely, and little (probably because I personally do not ask for my expenses).
My family consists of 4 people, me, my wife, my mother and my grandmother! My grandmother is 84 years old, she has very poor eyesight and cannot move independently, she lives in a village 200 km from the city. My mother is 54 years old, she is disabled (successfully rehabilitated after thyroid cancer) she lives in the village and takes care of my grandmother, My grandmother is a child of war and receives a pension of $ 100, and my mother $ 55, this amount is not enough even to pay for utilities, not to mention food or some kind of rest, so I try to help with everything I can, since these are my closest people! I really want you to notice that I am not asking for a monthly contribution to the operation of our channels, I am not asking YOU to help me, my main goal is to do everything so that my family is safe, and for this we must win this war and help our Warriors!
I want to be open with you, Ukrainians are very tired of this war, especially the guys who have been fighting for 3 years without rest, I have lost too many friends and acquaintances with whom I fought personally, and every day I try to keep in touch with many military personnel, including commanders, whom I help! And I put up each fundraiser not of my own free will, but at the request of our military! I have more than 700 Dialogues and sometimes my head is boiling, reading all this, answering, helping, but I know that if I do not do this, then others are unlikely to help. We have large English-language telegram channels that work daily as we do (I WILL NOT PUBLISH THEIR NAMES, I think you understand what channels we are talking about), and I am shocked that basically only my channel and my friend Sergey (Ukrainian Witness) help our soldiers, the rest only work in their own interests! I want everyone to understand one thing: when I publish donations, I count on collective support (each person $1) and any collection will be completed in minutes, but something else happens: about 100 of the same people constantly donate!
There are some who claim that I live off donations, I will explain briefly: I am officially a Volunteer, registered with the tax office, and each of my bank details is carefully checked by financial monitoring, to which I provide a report on the work done, and even if I really wanted to take some $ 100, they would ask me about it, in Ukraine they know how to count other people's money!
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