“We delivered another set of gifts from the SFE ‘Forests of Ukraine’ to our friends from the 43rd Separate Artillery Brigade named after Hetman Taras Tryasylo,” says CEO Yuriy Bolokhovets.

“These are two excavators for building protective positions and a vehicle.

The brigade is known for the best long-range artillery — the 2S7 ‘Pion’ 203 mm SPGs, Swedish Archer systems, and German Panzerhaubitze 2000s.

Even 20 km from the front line, the artillery is forced to remain constantly in camouflaged shelters. It drives out of the caponier, fires, and quickly goes back underground.

There must be a large number of caponiers.

Therefore, every artillery battery needs at least one excavator. But enemy UAVs hunt and destroy construction equipment just as they do military vehicles. So help from charitable donors is indispensable.

This year the SFE ‘Forests of Ukraine,’ in addition to other aid, purchased and handed over to the artillerymen of the 43rd Brigade five semi-trailers (lowboy trailers) for transporting heavy military equipment.

We saw how our gift works in practice. Right before our eyes a ‘Pion’ self-propelled gun — weighing almost 50 tonnes and 3.4 meters wide — drove onto one of the trailers.

From now on the brigade will not only have means to transport its artillery, but also equipment for its sheltering.

Despite the increase in numbers and the development of UAVs, Ukrainian long-range artillery continues to play a huge role in holding back the enemy. And we will certainly continue to help and support our friends from the 43rd Artillery Brigade,” Yuriy Bolokhovets says.