You’ll Also Find Projects Supporting Ukrainians at Pohoda 2025
Near Café Kušnierik, you’ll find stands run by organisations and projects that support Ukrainians in their resistance against the Russian aggressor – All4Ukraine, Dárek pro Putina (A Gift for Putin), Deťom Ukrajiny (For the Children of Ukraine), and Mier Ukrajine (Peace to Ukraine). Not far away, you’ll also find the ambulance Oksana, destroyed by Russian drones, on display.
10. July 2025
ALL4UKRAINE
Slovak reporters and the All4Ukraine collective helped save a small Ukrainian town. In addition, they raise funds to support Ukrainian defenders – primarily for ambulances, evacuation pick-ups, and other forms of humanitarian aid.
They regularly deliver this aid all the way to the front line, handing it over directly to the soldiers. These convoys are often joined by journalists and reporters, as well as well-known public figures – such as Michal Kaščák, Michael Kocáb, Michal Horáček, Milan Šimečka, Erik Tabery, Fedor Blaščák, photographer Janka Rajcová, and others.
A Slovak all-female convoy delivered aid to Ukrainian women. A part of this convoy was also Oksana – an ambulance destroyed by a Russian drone shortly after being handed over. Oksana has since become a symbol of the ambulance fundraising campaign.
The Oksana ambulance will be on display at Pohoda. On Saturday at 8:15 PM, you can also attend the talk The Saga of the Destroyed Ambulance Oksana, featuring guests: Dorota Vlnová, documentary filmmaker; Vladimír Šimíček, photographer; and Fedor Blaščák, philosopher and activist.
At the ALL4UKRAINE stand, visitors will have the opportunity to see photographs from these journeys and talk to people who’ve travelled through Bucha, Irpin, Berdyanka, Kharkiv, Sumy, Izium, Kramatorsk, Kostiantynivka, Pokrovsk, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson… and who are eyewitnesses to the crimes committed by the Russian occupiers in these areas.
The stall will also feature artefacts and original Ukrainian embroidered shirts, T-shirts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, seen also on President Zelenskyy, patches with Oksana, and more.
In the Food Zone, you’ll also find the BUĎ LASKA stand (in Ukrainian, “please help yourself”), where part of the collective will lovingly serve Ukrainian culinary specialities – borscht, shashlik, and other treats. Proceeds from sales will also go toward aid for Ukraine.
FOR THE CHILDREN OF UKRAINE
A space where children can return to childhood from the harsh reality of war.
Come visit us and learn more about the Carpathian School project – a school currently being established in the Ukrainian Carpathians. It is intended for children from areas most affected by the war. Many of these children haven’t attended a normal school in five years – they’ve only studied online, often in unsuitable conditions, without friends, without a proper support system, without safety.
The Carpathian School aims to finally offer them something most of us take for granted – the chance to be together again, to go to school, to learn from real people and not just through screens, to play, talk, create, breathe fresh air, run through the woods, and feel like children again.
At the stand, you’ll be able to meet some of the children who will soon attend the school, as well as some members of the support team – psychologists and other professionals – who are helping them. They’ll share how children can be healed through experiences, movement, nature, art, and human connection.
It’s a project that looks to the future with optimism – and you can be a part of it too.
Come by, ask questions, offer your support. Or simply spend a moment with us.
A GIFT FOR PUTIN
At the Dárek pro Putina (A Gift for Putin) stand, you can purchase original T-shirts, an anti-Putin doormat, or a limited edition Victorinox Swiss Army knife. The proceeds go towards financing weapons for the Ukrainian army. Since 4 May 2022, Dárek pro Putina has raised €43 million, all of which has gone towards the purchase of arms.
PEACE TO UKRAINE
The Mier Ukrajine (Peace for Ukraine) initiative will also have a stand at Pohoda. It was formed as a civic response to the unprecedented aggression and attack by the Russian army on a free and sovereign Ukraine. The group is made up of activists from various parts of Slovakia. They stand with Ukraine, with Ukrainian women, men, and children. Come visit their stand and find out more about them.