Together with Olga Kharlan and the UAnimals foundation, RIOTDIVISION created charity T-shirts. All income will be forwarded to purchase first-aid kits for service dogs of the State Emergency Situations Service and the State Border Guard Service
The drop includes unisex and women’s T-shirt options. The illustration for them was created by artist Oleg Semak together with the brand team and Olga Harlan.
The image symbolizes the struggle during the war, in particular, the struggle ‘to save the animals which help our defenders and rescuers’.
The RIOTDIVISION logo for the drop has also been changed — they placed a fencer on the front of the T-shirt instead of a man throwing a Molotov cocktail.
Members of the brand’s team said that they came up with the idea for the collaboration ‘organically’ because the employees are closely connected to the dogs:
‘Most of our team members help animal shelters or have taken dogs from shelters to their families. It was also important for us not to detach ourselves from the realities, so together with Olga we chose to help the animals (in our case we help the dogs) of defenders and rescuers’.
The RIOTDIVISION team members described their experience with Kharlan as ‘pleasant and productive’, so they do not rule out future collaborations.
In total, about 200 T-shirts in black and beige colors were produced. The price is 2,500 UAH, and the first 100 thousand UAH have already been sent to UAnimals.
You can buy T-shirts from the limited edition drop on the RIOTDIVISION website.
Kharlan and the brand announced the partnership on August 24, 2023. At the same time they announced a charity T-shirt drop, the money from which was to go to help wounded military personnel.
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Olympic champions in team sabre fencing such as Alina Komashchuk, Yulia Bakastova and Olena Kravatska have also starred for the brand.
About other RIOTDIVISION collaborations
In December 2023, the brand and charity organization Azov One released a drop. The defenders of Mariupol became the heroes of the campaign.
For the collaboration RIOTDIVISION created basic T-shirts in black and white colors and black hoodies. The clothes were complemented with a print by artist Oleg Semak.
A charity collaboration with the Kraken special unit of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of Ukraine was also released in April 2024, and the Unmanned Systems Forces announced a collaboration with RIOTDIVISION in June.
