Rinat Akhmetov Has Given Over $400 Million to Support Ukraine’s Armed Forces and Civilians Since 2022
Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, SCM businesses, the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation, and Shakhtar Donetsk Football Club have channeled over UAH 15 billion (more than $404 million) into helping the country, the military, and civilians.The main areas of support are the Armed Forces of Ukraine; veterans, including Mariupol defenders and their families; education and sport; help for civilians; restoring and rebuilding communities; and advocacy and projects that preserve stories of the war, such as the Museum of Civilian Voices.Assistance to Ukraine's active service defenders is delivered systematically through the Rinat Akhmetov’s Steel Front initiative. Through the Steel Front, military units across the country receive free gear, vehicles, armored personnel carriers, ambulances for military medics, drones, thermal imagers, sights, radios, cameras, clothing, footwear, first-aid kits, tourniquets, fuel, and other essentials. In particular, SCM’s steel company Metinvest has develo