Wild Bees Sweden

In the deepest darkness of war, many struggle and work for Ukraine's freedom. With this video we want to give a bit of hope and light. Our printers won’t stop until there's victory in Ukraine. 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraini! More info: wildbeessweden.se youtube.com/watch?v=Cxc9Im…

@PowerUpUkraine Fantastiskt!!! Jag måste få höra mer!!! 🤩💙💛 Attan att man bara får rösta en gång. Ska tipsa fler.

’Blåsljus i Samverkan’ är en av dom organisationer som vi haft förmånen att samarbeta endel med, framför allt i Poltava. Gå därför gärna in och rösta på Robin som en av årets sommarpratare: sverigesradio.se/play/avsnitt/2… Det stärker det svenska folkets hjälp till Ukraina!

SVT har gjort ett inslag om Blågula Bilen. Oavsett om det görs inslag om oss eller annat så är det alltid bra att Ukraina uppmärksammas! Så, dela gärna! svt.se/nyheter/lokalt… Swish: 1236076665 paypal.me/blagulabilen Bg: 5899-3932

The faces of Ukrainian Warriors after defending their positions for months. 📷: 93rd Mechanized Brigade / 47th Mechanized Brigade / 57th Motorized Brigade / Serhii Tyshchenko / oleksandra_dobrovolska / NGU Military Unit 3045 / Oleksandr Tishaiev / libkos

He killed 542 men in 100 days without ever looking through a scope. Then he disappeared back into an ordinary life — so ordinary that the world nearly forgot he had ever existed. Simo Häyhä was small in stature — five foot three — stocky and quiet. His hands were calloused from farm tools, not polished by ceremonial sabers. In the rural southeast of Finland, near the village of Rautjärvi, he was known as a dependable neighbor. He hunted. He farmed. He kept to himself. Nothing about him suggested legend. Then came November 30, 1939. The Soviet Union invaded Finland, beginning what would later be known as the Winter War. Moscow expected a swift campaign. The Red Army brought roughly half a million soldiers, along with tanks, aircraft, and artillery. They outnumbered Finnish forces by nearly three to one. On paper, it looked less like a war and more like an inevitability. But snow does not follow paper calculations. That winter was merciless. Temperatures dropped to minus 40 degrees. Engines froze. Metal stuck to bare skin. Forests swallowed sound. The Finns knew the terrain the way farmers know their fields and hunters know animal tracks. Simo Häyhä was one of those men. He had grown up skiing through those forests, reading wind and shadow, standing motionless until game appeared. When he joined the Finnish Army, he did not transform into something new. He simply applied the skills he had built over years to a different purpose. Dressed head to toe in white, he vanished into the snowfields. He packed snow in front of his rifle barrel so the muzzle blast would not kick up powder and reveal his position. He held snow in his mouth to cool his breath, reducing the visible vapor that could give him away in the cold air. He lay still for hours, sometimes entire days, letting the forest settle around him. He did not stalk. He waited. What made him especially dangerous was a choice most snipers would consider illogical. He refused to use a telescopic sight. While others relied on scopes, Häyhä used only iron sights — the simplest aiming system available. He believed a scope could reflect sunlight like a signal mirror. It required lifting the head slightly higher, increasing visibility. In extreme cold, lenses could fog or freeze. Iron sights were lower, sturdier, and more reliable. He trusted his rifle and his eyes. In fewer than 100 days of combat, he recorded more than 500 confirmed kills with his rifle. Some estimates place the number at 542. That figure does not include additional enemy soldiers he killed with a submachine gun in close combat. Five hundred men. In forests locked in ice. In a war his country was not expected to survive. The Soviets gave him a name: the White Death. White Death. Sniper teams were dispatched to hunt him. Entire units were tasked with finding one farmer in a white jacket. Artillery shelled forests where scouts believed he might be hiding. Officers warned soldiers against careless movement across open ground. The idea that one man could inflict such damage deeply unsettled them. He was no longer just a sniper. He became winter with a trigger. On March 6, 1940, a Soviet explosive bullet — designed to maximize damage — struck him in the face. It shattered his jaw, tore through his cheek, and disfigured the left side of his face. Comrades found him unconscious, barely recognizable, and carried him from the battlefield, assuming he would not survive. He fell into a coma. Seven days later, he opened his eyes. The day he regained consciousness was the day the war ended. Despite overwhelming odds, Finland endured. The country lost territory but retained its independence. Häyhä, disfigured and permanently changed, survived the conflict that turned him into a myth. Then he did something almost no one expected. He went home. No book deals. No speeches about heroism. No attempt to turn reputation into money. He returned to Rautjärvi, to fields and forests.

Sport shouldn’t mean amnesia, and the Olympic movement should help stop wars, not play into the hands of aggressors. Unfortunately, the decision of the International Olympic Committee to disqualify Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych says otherwise. This is certainly not about the principles of Olympism, which are founded on fairness and the support of peace. I thank our athlete for his clear stance. His helmet, bearing the portraits of fallen Ukrainian athletes, is about honour and remembrance. It is a reminder to the whole world of what Russian aggression is and the cost of fighting for independence. And in this, no rule has been broken. It is Russia that constantly violates Olympic principles, using the period of the Olympic Games to wage war. In 2008, it was the war against Georgia; in 2014 – the occupation of Crimea; in 2022 – the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. And now, in 2026, despite repeated calls for a ceasefire during the Winter Olympics, Russia shows complete disregard, increasing missile and drone strikes on our energy infrastructure and our people. 660 Ukrainian athletes and coaches have been killed by Russia since the full-scale invasion began. Hundreds of our athletes will never again be able to take part in the Olympic Games or any other international competitions. And yet, 13 Russians are currently in Italy competing at the Olympics. They compete under “neutral” flags at the Games, while in real life publicly supporting Russian aggression against Ukraine and the occupation of our territories. And they are the ones who deserve disqualification. We are proud of Vladyslav and of what he did. Having courage is worth more than any medal.

Killed twice. Once by russia. And then by the IOC. Thanks to @heraskevych , they will never be forgotten. Eternal memory. 🙏😉🇺🇦

This video brought tears to my eyes. A dad has been waiting and praying for his son Ivan to return from Russian captivity for over three years. Today, he received the message he prayed for: "The Defender has been released from captivity." (families of Ukrainians in Russian captivity often gather when news of an exchange appear, hoping today their loved ones will finally return home) 📹: TSN

Today is the 3rd anniversary of the shocking murder of the Ukrainian prisoner-of-war Oleksandr Matsievskyi. Captured at Bakhmut, the Russians forced him to dig his grave & say some final pleading words. Instead, he took a last drag on his cigarette and said “Glory to Ukraine”

@MontyEOD2336 Thank you for your feedback @MontyEOD2336 ! Lets talk on DM. Sent you a message.

@WildbeesSweden Thank you for everything you do as I’ve had the chance to use some of your items and they are a great way to give reference and training to so many people. Would love to connect

In the deepest darkness of war, many struggle and work for Ukraine's freedom. With this video we want to give a bit of hope and light. Our printers won’t stop until there's victory in Ukraine. 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraini! More info: wildbeessweden.se youtube.com/watch?v=Cxc9Im…

The photo shows the Ukrainian 🇺🇦 army in Iraq 🇮🇶 helping the United States 🇺🇸 fight against the regime of Saddam #Hussein. When the United States 🇺🇸 asked for help, Ukraine 🇺🇦 responded by sending its troops and joining the U.S. 🇺🇸 coalition. In Iraq 🇮🇶, 18 Ukrainian soldiers were killed while serving alongside the United States 🇺🇸. Today, Ukrainians are not asking the United States to fight for us. We are simply asking you not to side with the aggressor - Russia 🇷🇺.

Ge bort en lastbil i julklapp! Vi lovar att både Ukrainas soldater och dina släktingar blir minst lika glada som Putin blir sur. 🎅🏻👊🏻🇺🇦 Du behöver inte casha hela bilen. Ett bidrag räcker — tomten tar Swish! Juligt gåvobrev här: usercontent.one/wp/www.blagula… Swish: 1236076665

1st Corps of the National Guard. 👊🏻🇺🇦 Fordon + utrustning levererat av Blågula Bilen. Kartongvis med taktiska hörselkåpor finansierade av medel som svenska soldater i Interflex samlat in. Soldat till soldat. 🇸🇪🇺🇦 Swish: 1236076665 paypal.me/blagulabilen Bg: 5899-3932

Den 68:e artilleribrigaden, vars bataljoner nu är utplacerade längs fronten, behövde ett stort fordon för att lösa sina logistikuppgifter effektivt. 👊🏻🇺🇦 TACK till alla er som donerar! Swish: 1236076665 paypal.me/blagulabilen Bg: 5899-3932

@Nissvik Well… don’t really know…. Printing larynx for medics to train laryngectomy is pretty normal nowadays…. 😁😁😁 We add a bit of neoprene textile to get a more realistic practice situation. Hope the practice is useful if any of them needs to do this in real life.

"So, @WildbeesSweden, what is the strangest thing you ever printed? "

This clip will live in my head rent free forever. The smile and joy as he says "NO RUSSIANS" is so infectious 🥰 #Kherson #Liberation

A few days ago I was at an event organized by MITS in Kyiv, where the topic was the “drone wall” and whether Russian UAVs could shift Europe’s front line. Ironic question — can you shift what doesn’t exist. I tried to unpack the core problem: Europe’s lack of preparation for the imminent war Russia might start against European countries. So the title of my thought: Europe is playing at war, not preparing for it. Europe speaks the language of progress but thinks in the language of comfort. Here war has become a tech show, where every new buzzword — “game-changer”, “AI”, “drone revolution” — creates an opiate sense of control, replacing real preparation for the coming war Russia may begin by invading the Baltic states. Unfortunately, because of a lack of real combat experience, generals, defence ministers, politicians (Ukrainians included, regrettably) have forgotten the main thing — equipment does not fight on its own. A drone, a rifle, a tank, a fighter, a radar station, a truck — these are only tools with specific tasks. An army is not a pile of metal and not merely a crowd of highly trained soldiers. An army is a structure that moves as one: C4ISR, logistics, infantry, artillery, intelligence, medicine, communications. Everything begins with the principles of war — they are the constant on which the art of war is built; they should be reminded to European generals as insistently as we constantly remind Ukrainian (Soviet-trained) commanders. Objective — a clearly defined end state. C4ISR must provide a single picture and clear tasks; without an objective all tools are useless. Offensive — action must seize the initiative; defense must be active. Infantry and artillery cannot wait for long data collection cycles; they act on targets provided by intelligence and on C4ISR decisions. Mass — concentrate fire and resources at the decisive point. Logistics and ammunition stocks allow you to “build up” fire where it will matter most. Economy of Force — allocate resources with priority to what matters. Battle-testing and right procurement priorities prevent wasting scarce resources on “show projects”. Maneuver — use movement to create favorable force ratios. Infantry and armor, combined with intelligence and EW, create opportunities to bypass or break the enemy’s defenses. Unity of Command (C2) — one plan, coordinated action. C2 inside C4ISR guarantees that all elements act to a single intent, not to separate instructions. Security — protection from enemy reconnaissance and strikes; protect supply chains and comms. EW/cyber and dispersed logistics infrastructure make the system survivable. Surprise — strike where and when the enemy does not expect it. Quality intelligence plus a fast decision cycle in C4ISR deliver tactical advantage. Simplicity — plans must be understandable and executable in chaos. Training, NCO skills and standardized SOPs make tactics work even when comms fail. Sustainability / Perseverance — the ability to endure prolonged pressure and to recover. Strategic stocks, MRO, medicine and mobilization capacity are what give a campaign long legs. Without this connectivity, everything else is just shards of technical pride. If there is no system, even the best technology does not unite an army — it merely fragments it into pieces, each living in its own illusion of strength. Today Europe pours billions into startups that have no grounding and no realistic chance of success. Their founders are “veterans” of peacekeeping missions, not modern high-intensity war. They build pretty prototypes that fail field tests. Stark Defence failed all strikes; Watchkeeper fell on its own wings. This is not merely technical malfunction — it is a diagnosis of a system where money has replaced experience. Stark raised over $100 million in venture capital, including investment tied to Peter Thiel, and none of its four test strikes hit their targets. Watchkeeper cost British taxpayers more than £1 billion, and after years of development became a symbol of expensive impotence: drones crashed before they could fight. Money creates the illusion of understanding war, but it cannot substitute for those who have seen it up close. When technology is born without front-line experience, it becomes a fine concept that dies on first contact with reality. Finland is the exception. It has over 900,000 reservists, of whom 280,000 can be mobilized immediately. Under the Comprehensive Defence 2035 plan the state is deploying new ammunition and fuel stocks and modernizing shelters along the eastern border, while updating its system of field fortifications. The purchase of 64 F-35A fighters, joint production of Patria 6×6APCs and over 2,000 exercises a year — this is not a show, it is practical preparation for war. Finland does not build “drone walls” for the news — it builds real territorial defence plans: stocks, roads, reserves, mobilization lists. For them war is not a concept, it is an engineering task already calculated by the hour. And Europe, even if in theory it were to receive the best weapons and the best army, would still lack the most important thing — officers who know how to fight this war. Not a museum war, not a simulation — but a modern, chaotic, dynamic war. That experience exists — among Ukrainian officers. And Europe is now losing the chance not merely to learn from them, but to save itself from future defeat. Investment should go not into yet another prototype, but into people who know what real war looks like. That is the most profitable investment — and the only one that makes sense. Europe is turning its attention to Ukrainian officers — chiefly those bearing high ranks: generals, advisors, former chiefs of staff. It is convenient: they speak a familiar language — about strategy, plans, funding. But most of them met the war away from the frontline, in offices. In 2014 many were colonels who had not seen the real front line. Their experience is administrative, not combat. And this paradox creates the false impression that experience is being taken into account. While Europe listens to generals instead of those who actually fought, it repeats the old mistake: learning from theorists when living practitioners are right next to it. Concepts like a “drone wall” will not save you if they are not backed by a system that can see, think and act. Any wall without experience of use, without protection and countermeasures, is just decoration. Any innovation without war is just noise. Victory will not go to the side with the most technology, but to the side that remembers the army is not a set of devices, but a way of thinking that turns chaos into order. Whoever first stops playing at war — and starts preparing for it — will win. It is a pity that the mistakes of the foolish and the show-loving will bring additional suffering and the deaths of innocent civilians.

Ukraine has become an enhanced partner of the Joint Expeditionary Force — a defense coalition of ten Northern European countries: the United Kingdom, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, the Netherlands, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia. In essence, Ukraine has joined a kind of “Northern European NATO.” This is not an ordinary event — it will have strategic consequences for the security of Europe and for Ukraine as an integral part of it. This is one of those moments when we can and must thank the country’s leadership and the hundreds of people in the state and diplomatic services for achieving this major diplomatic victory — another recognition by our European partners that Ukraine is already an inseparable part of the continental security system. Europe has made its geopolitical choice, and that is very good news for Ukraine. Source: Oleksiy Honcharuk

Pokrovsk Holds!

200 medical bags packed by our wonderful volunteers. Without all our amazing network of donors and volunteers we would never be able to achive the work that we do. Our work is a team effort and every participant contributes.

@HallmenPatrik Det finns andra som kan… som gärna hjälper till! 😁🇸🇪🇺🇦

@WildbeesSweden Tänk om man kunde 3D-printa 😊

Skillsen är att göra saker billigt o lösa ev problem 😉 Generellt: -Åka till Donbas, lämna bil o hem 5000kr -Fordon, 30-50% under marknadsvärde -Delar+meka: donationer o volontärjobb -Däck, inköpspris -Utr. av fordon, gåvor elr Jula/Biltema -Sjukvårdsutr/materiel, 98% donerat