In the wake of a public scandal over the poor condition of the country’s veterans care program, a new crowdfunding project has been launched to collect money to support Ukrainian veterans of Russia’s war on Ukraine in the Donbas.

The initiative will help those struggling to overcome post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which is claiming more and more of the lives of demobilized Ukrainian servicemen, the project’s founder Paul Niland, a political writer and public activist living in Ukraine, said at a press conference in Kyiv on May 21.