Project Turtle

Help us buy and upgrade fully armored amphibious rescue vehicles for Ukraine

Rendering of the vehicle once upgraded and armored:

Select your amount and help us to get the turtles on the road!

Donate here:

For donations starting at $500 we will ship the donor a luggage tag made from a downed Russian Sukhoi-27 attack plance as a thank you:

Help us fundraise to save lives

The insane and criminal invasion into Ukraine by Russia is ongoing since February 2022. The active frontline is 1500km long.

Everyday medics and volunteers evacuate those facing enemy fire and humanitarian disaster. They do evacuations under shelling, rocket and tank fire. Often Russian soldiers deliberately target evacuation vehicles. The situation is worsened by the lack of roads. Often one needs to extract people though fields, rivers and flooded areas.

That’s why we are fundraising for armored amphibian vehicles that can carry up to 16 people in one go. Such vehicle will reach people in areas and conditions that often make evacuations completely impossible. Such vehicle is almost guaranteed to save dozens of lives.

There are no aid programs to Ukraine that provide for these types of armored vehicles.

What we’ve done so far:

These are the vehicles we purchased in coordination with our partners before and delivered. Similar vehicles will be armored: 

Technical specifications: B7 ARMORED AMPHIBIAN, 3.9 V8 220 HP, capacity – up to 16 people plus one driver, armor level CEN B7 (armored glass 55mm), floor remade to antimine ballistic steel, night vision cameras, two evacuation hatches. The rear is equipped with emergency medical aid equipment. Vehicles are imported from Germany (two already purchased). Armoring will be done in Ukraine within a month.

Our history of lives saved:

On May 2022 we imported 6 armored Land Rover Defender vehicles. Two of them have already saved 12 lives after their vehicle was hit by Russian shelling. Without armor those lives would have been certainly lost:

August 2022, near Kramatorsk, 6 people escaped uninjured. Vehicle returned to service after several months of reconstruction:

May 2023, Bakhmut, 6 people escaped, one injured. Vehicle was destroyed:

About Our Team

Maryan Zablotsky

Member of the Ukrainian Parliament and coordinator of many aid initiatives for Ukraine.

Fred Roeder & Maria Semykoz

German-Ukrainian couple supporting the Defenders of Ukraine. Maria is from Sievierodonetsk in Donbas, Ukraine - currently occupied by Russia.