Illustration: #JeniaOliynyk
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After the beginning of the full-scale invasion, a car with a sticker on the windshield "Crazy Bunnies" and a huge amount of food for the defenders constantly came to one of the territorial defenses of Kyiv. At the checkpoint, the car quickly began to be called "Crazy", so the volunteers didn’t think long about the name of their association: Crazy Girls (Ochmanili Divakhy).
They started cooking food on an industrial scale because, in the first days of the Russian attack, many restaurants were closing down and looking for someone to give their warehouses with food to. Mariia, the founder of Ochmanili Divakhy and an activist since the Revolution of Dignity (2014), did not hesitate and set up a kitchen for defenders right in her apartment. Unknown people could bring her 300 kilograms of cheese, but since it was necessary to cook for dozens of defenders, nothing was superfluous. Mariia's mother and her friends made several hundred pancakes, while Mariia and her friends prepared buckets of borscht, porridge, and buns, and her dad washed all the dishes before the new working day.
Also, they decided to set up a place in an abandoned building nearby for weaving camouflage nets, which are in great need on the front lines. This work is not new for the volunteers: they made nets for the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 2014—2015, when Russia started the war in the east of Ukraine.
Ochmanili Divakhy attaches a note from the people of Kyiv to each parcel. It can be words of support from parents and relatives or gratitude from Ukrainian people.
Back in 2014, Mariia promised herself that when the war with Russia ended with the victory of Ukraine, she would go to every place of military glory and kneel there as a sign of gratitude to the defenders. Unfortunately, this list of cities and villages is increasing every day.