Viktor Forsmark is a professional Swedish military man in the past. Today, he heads unit 312, helping Ukrainian soldiers on the front lines since March 2022.
Viktor and his comrades created a medical patrol to evacuate the wounded after the death of their commander - a 28-year-old Swede, Edvard Selander Patrignani, who died on the battlefield in July of this year in Ukraine while saving his comrade.
Viktor's goal is to build a successful company that will professionally provide effective, high-quality military, medical, and transport assistance to the Ukrainian armed forces as long as Ukraine needs it. To achieve this, Viktor has to fulfill the role of, as he says, \"paper pusher\" every day.
\"Few people want to do it because there is no glory. Volunteers want to \"kick Russians' ass\", - says Viktor, - but logistics will win the wars.
Since February, Viktor has been in Sweden, coordinating hundreds of Swedish volunteers. Then, step by step, he built a system of supplying equipment to those who went to Ukraine, their correct legal registration in the Ukrainian army, and created a volunteer organization in Sweden - https://312e.se/
Since March 2022, all his guys have been fighting at the expense of their savings. Only very recently, most of them were able to sign contracts with the Armed Forces.
In August, after the death of his commander and friend, Viktor joined his unit in Ukraine. Now they are creating a medical patrol at the brigade from scratch. Viktor came home to Stockholm for a week to find financing for the unit.
\"Some of my guys are already on the verge of personal bankruptcy, - he says, - and as a commander, I have to do everything possible to provide my brothers with everything they need\".
\"The war in Ukraine is my war,\" Viktor says. - \"Russia is trying to destroy everything valuable to me - freedom, democracy. This is what my world stands for. I have to protect what is dear to me\".
When I look at his clear eyes, I imagine an ancient glacier on which Sweden stands and, for generations, drinks crystal water from it. Viktor, and people like him, are the foundation of modern Swedish society. His parents were able to grow in this wonderful man the belief that he could change something in the world.
That he can change the world.
So Unit 312 needs all the help we can find. The best way to help is to transfer money through volunteer organizations, indicating in the designation - \"for Swedes from 312\".
Blue / Yellow for Ukraine is a Lithuanian organization led by Swedish-born journalist and documentary filmmaker Jonas Ohman which has been consistently supporting Ukraine in the war since 2014 https://lnkd.in/d5uSFXkd
Insamlingsstiftelsen Blåljus i Samverkan is a Swedish volunteer organization under the leadership of Pär Johansson which helps the families of policemen, firefighters and doctors, and since the beginning of the full-scale invasion - also Ukraine https://lnkd.in/d5uSFXkd