IMI thanks partners for their help in providing journalists with protective equipment in Ukraine

The Institute of Mass Information would like to thank all the institutions and organizations that help provide journalists with protective equipment for their work in the time of war in Ukraine.

As of June 3, 2022, the following assistance to journalists and the media was organized in Ukraine with the help of IMI:

PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT

Bulletproof vests - 811 brought to Ukraine, 200 more are expected 

Helmets - 606, and 300 more expected

Tactical / ballistic glasses - more than 300

First aid kits - 750

other medical devices (turnstiles, bandages, tablets for water purification, etc.) - more than 1000

Gas masks and chemical protection - 68

PRESS stickers and vests - more than 500

COMMUNICATION

Starlinks - 52

Satellite phones - 30

Mobile phones - 140

Power banks - 365

Solar power banks - 387

Other equipment - more than 100

OTHER

Individual financial assistance provided to more than 150 journalists who found themselves in a difficult situation due to the war

Two security trainings were held in which 56 journalists participated

22 legal consultations were provided, and more than 200 consultations on security

IMI thanks for very valuable and important work that made possible safe work of journalists in Ukraine to:

USAID

Internews Network

Reporters Without Borders

Renaissance Foundation

Open Society Foundation

OCCRP

International Media Support

Institute for War and Peace Reporting

Frontline Defenders

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The US Embassy to Ukraine 

Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office of UK

The Netherlands Embassy to Ukraine

Prague Civil Society Center

Freedom House

UNESCO

UCBI

TORO Solutions

IMI also thanks its partners for their incredible support in providing journalists with safety equipment and protection:

Embassy of Ukraine to Romania

Embassy of Ukraine to Poland

Department of Journalism, Yuri Fedkovych National University of Chernivtsi

Slidstvo.info

Lviv Media Forum

Lviv Defense Cluster

Euromaidan-Warsaw

Digital Security Lab

Gazeta Wyborcza

And also MANY THANKS to volunteers, territorial defense representatives, students of journalism and all the wonderful people who help us and apply all efforts to provide Ukrainian and foreign journalists with protective equipment, which allows them to work safely and document the crimes of russian invasion in Ukraine.