The “Library Spiders” volunteer group from the Bucha community has sent two more camouflage nets, six by four metres each, to the front line. They will help soldiers conceal equipment and positions.
This was announced in a statement by the Bucha City Council.
Despite the July heat, the volunteers do not stop for a single day. Weaving a net is physically punishing work: hours on your feet over a stretched base into which hundreds of fabric strips are threaded by hand. In summer the stifling air is added to that, since the work is done under an awning or in the open.
The reason the group takes no break is simple: requests from the military keep coming. A camouflage net is a consumable. It tears, it fades, it stays behind at a position when a unit moves on, and it changes colour with the season: a net that works in July is visible to a drone by October.
This is not the first report on the Bucha district’s net-weavers in the past week — in Zdvyzhivka, volunteers wove thirty-six nets in a month. Together the figures add up to a picture that is easy to miss: the community’s home front is held largely by older women, for whom a library or a village club has become a workshop floor.
The “Library Spiders” can be supported with a donation to card 5375 4112 0938 2352, or with weaving materials.
“We sincerely thank everyone who believes in us, supports us and helps with materials, donations and their own labour,” the volunteers said.
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