The Bundle for Ukrainian Hospitals stands by its humanitarian credentials
A Serhiy Prytula Humanitarian Foundation rep maintains that no money from the bundle will be used for military purposes.
In late February, 2022, Russia launched an invasion into Ukraine, inciting a new chapter in the war for control of the Crimea and Donbas regions that has been ongoing since 2014. This war has been described by PBS as the most high-casualty European conflict since World War 2, and many outlets have noted that Russia has repeatedly and deliberately targeted civilians over the past four years. Hospitals have come under extreme fire from Russian military operations; in 2024, the World Health Organization identified over 1,500 attacks on healthcare targets.
Ukraine has since benefited from a massive infusion of charity from various international sources, including the itch.io Bundle for Ukraine that raised over $6 million for International Medical Corps and Voices of Children. As reported previously by Rascal, the IMC used some of its funds to rebuild a clinic in Oskil.
Inspired by this bundle, two Ukrainian tabletop fans, Serhii Urazmatov and Oleksandr Lazorenko, planned a similar campaign to support the Serhiy Prytula Humanitarian Foundation, a charitable organization created in 2020 by actor-turned-politican Serhiy Prytula. They ran a game jam in 2024, and the Bundle for Ukrainian Hospitals went live in June 2025. (It’s worth noting that Urazmatov and Lazorenko have both previously translated tabletop RPGs from English to Ukrainian and designed their own games.)
When the bundle went live, critics pointed out that the beneficiary, Serhiy Prytula Humanitarian Foundation, was organizing multiple ongoing campaigns to raise funds for military equipment alongside humanitarian causes. Under the “Help Army” section of its website, the foundation allows individuals to donate directly to the purchase of tactical gear, military vehicles, and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), among other wartime resources. Humanitarian aid sits, ostensibly separate, under the foundation’s “Help Civilians” section, but it still raised the question of how funds from the tabletop RPG bundle would be used.
Fedir Kushnir, a core member and partnership manager for Serhiy Prytula Humanitarian Foundation, reached out to Rascal via email to clarify the Foundation’s plans, sharing their annual report that states while military fundraising is the majority of their activities, they provided “critically needed equipment and essential medicines” to 134 medical facilities in 2024. Kushnir stated that all funds raised through the bundle will go exclusively to healthcare providers in the Ukraine, including any money raised above the current $100,000 goal.
The following interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity.
