The consignment was assembled after a night-time attack on Kyiv in which nine people were killed. The list includes 36 Starlink terminals, 29 generators, a ground control station for drones and 800 kilograms of filament for three-dimensional printing.

Bucha Mayor Anatolii Fedoruk announced the handover on his Telegram channel. The total value of the equipment, purchased from the community budget, is 2.1 million hryvnias.

Servicemen with a unit flag beside the MAN bus that was handed over
The community had earlier received the MAN bus from partners and has now passed it to the military. Photo: Anatolii Fedoruk

Printing filament — a budget line that did not exist before the war

800 kilograms of filament is the material from which units print their own parts: drone mounts, casings, release mechanisms. Printing right at the positions has replaced a long supply chain, which is why the raw material for it has become a separate item in municipal procurement.

The ground control station for drones belongs to the same category. Generators and Starlinks cover the basic need: power and communications, without which a unit goes blind the moment the enemy jams the network or knocks out the electricity.

A MAN bus and a van on their second life

A MAN bus and a Volkswagen T4 van were handed over separately. The community received both vehicles from partners at one point — so the transport went to the front on a second round, after already serving the city's civilian needs.

For a community with the budget of a small town, 2.1 million hryvnias is a substantial sum, comparable to the cost of repairing a street. Bucha spends it on the army systematically: the city has been assembling such consignments throughout the full-scale war.

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