Four years of war and millions displaced.
VPP stands with them.

Ukraine has been crushed between two forces that treat its people as pawns — a Russian government waging a war of conquest driven by delusion and nationalism, and a Western establishment that has used Ukraine's suffering to advance its own ideological and geopolitical agenda. VPP takes a different position: the most important thing about the war in Ukraine is the Ukrainians. Jason Jones has walked the front lines in person. VPP has set up supplies and housing for refugees. And VPP will not abandon the people of Ukraine to either set of exploiters.

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Ukraine has suffered for a century. It deserves better than to suffer for someone else's agenda.

Ukraine is one of the oldest Christian nations in Europe. The Christianization of Kievan Rus in 988 AD — when Prince Vladimir converted his people to Orthodox Christianity — planted a faith that has endured invasions, occupations, and genocides for over a thousand years. Ukraine's Christian identity is not incidental to its national identity. It is inseparable from it.

The Holodomor

In 1932–33, Joseph Stalin imposed a deliberate famine on Ukraine — the Holodomor — that killed between 3.5 and 7.5 million Ukrainians. The famine was designed to crush Ukrainian national identity and resistance to Soviet collectivization. It almost worked. The memory of the Holodomor — a word that means "death by hunger" — shapes Ukrainian consciousness to this day. It is why Ukrainians do not trust Russia. It is why they fight.

The post-Soviet promise

When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, Ukraine inherited the third-largest nuclear arsenal in the world. Under pressure from the United States and Russia, Ukraine surrendered that arsenal in exchange for security guarantees — the Budapest Memorandum of 1994. Those guarantees proved worthless. The lesson Ukraine drew from that betrayal is one the world should take seriously.

Jason Jones has studied Ukraine's history, built relationships with Ukrainian Christians, and visited the country during the war — not from the safety of NATO Poland's border zones, but in cities on the front lines. He has spoken with soldiers, refugees, government officials, and pro-life Christian activists who are fighting simultaneously against Russian bombs and Western social engineering. That firsthand knowledge shapes everything VPP does in Ukraine.

I take the eccentric position that the most important thing to worry about in the Ukraine war is the Ukrainians. Since it is their country — not ours — their interests ought to come first, then second, then third.
Jason Jones

Russia invaded and the West exploited while people bled.

On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine — the largest land war in Europe since World War II. Cities were bombed, civilians were killed, and millions fled. By any measure it was an act of naked aggression. Vladimir Putin's war has brought death to civilians, repression to churches, and devastation to a Christian nation already bruised by a century of suffering.

The Russian assault

Russia's war has been characterized by the deliberate targeting of civilian infrastructure — power plants, water systems, hospitals, residential neighborhoods. The UN has documented at least 10,000 dead civilians, with the true figure almost certainly far higher. War casualties are approaching one million. The scale of suffering is historic.

The Western exploitation

But Ukraine faces a second threat alongside the Russian one. Since 2014, the American deep state — through USAID and affiliated organizations — has systematically honeycombed Ukraine's institutions with agents and agendas that have nothing to do with Ukrainian interests. USAID-funded abortion clinics and gender ideology programs proliferated across a country whose Christians had not asked for them. As one pro-life Ukrainian Christian after another told Jason Jones in tears — accepting these poisonous policies was the price of Western aid. That is not solidarity. It is a different kind of colonization.

Jason Jones addressed this directly in a speech to the pro-life patriot organization Chalice of Mercy in Kyiv in 2023 — some of whose members were on brief leave from fighting on the front lines. He asked them whether Ukraine would trade Russian colonizers for post-Christian Western ones. Whether they would allow Planned Parenthood to open clinics in Kyiv. Whether they would surrender their children to the ideological agenda of the same elites who had helped engineer the conditions that made the war possible. The audience — soldiers and activists alike — understood exactly what he was saying.

Will Ukraine trade Russian colonizers and occupiers for post-Christian, post-Western ones? That is the question no one in Washington or Brussels wants to ask. VPP asks it — because we care about the actual people of Ukraine, not a useful abstraction called "Ukraine."
Jason Jones

Aid, advocacy, and the long work of standing with a suffering people.

VPP's work in Ukraine operates on three tracks simultaneously — direct humanitarian aid for refugees and displaced families, partnership with organizations clearing the landmines that will kill Ukrainians long after any ceasefire, and advocacy for a just peace that serves Ukrainian interests rather than the agendas of foreign powers.

Programs

Refugee support — housing and supplies: VPP has set up supplies and housing for Ukrainian refugees — families displaced by the fighting who need shelter, food, and basic support. This is direct, practical solidarity of the kind VPP practices in every region it serves.

Landmine removal — partnership with Tip of the Spear: Ukraine is one of the most heavily mined countries on earth. Russian forces have seeded agricultural land, roads, forests, and civilian areas with landmines that will continue to kill and maim for decades. VPP has partnered with Ryan Hendrickson's Tip of the Spear Landmine Removal — bringing former special operations expertise to the work of clearing mines from communities that need to rebuild.

Advocacy for a just peace: VPP supports President Trump's efforts to serve as an honest broker in ending the conflict on realistic, compromise terms — not because VPP is indifferent to Ukraine, but because it is not. Dragging out an unwinnable war to "make Russia bleed" — as Biden's Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin put it — sacrifices Ukrainian lives for American geopolitical calculations. VPP advocates for peace precisely because it loves the Ukrainian people.

Peace, rebuilding, and a Ukraine that belongs to Ukrainians.

VPP's vision for Ukraine is simple: a country at peace, governed by and for its own people, free from Russian conquest and Western exploitation alike. That vision is not naive — it is the only vision that actually serves the human beings who live there. VPP will continue to deliver humanitarian aid, support landmine removal, and advocate for a peace settlement that reflects Ukrainian interests until that vision is closer to reality.

Immediate priorities

Continuing refugee support for displaced Ukrainian families. Expanding the landmine removal partnership with Tip of the Spear. Advocating for a ceasefire and peace process that does not sacrifice Ukrainian civilians to foreign agendas.

Long-term commitments

VPP's commitment to Ukraine is rooted in relationship — with the Christians of the Chalice of Mercy, with the soldiers Jason Jones met on the front lines, with the refugees whose children deserve a future. That relationship does not end when the cameras move on. VPP will remain engaged in Ukraine's rebuilding for as long as it takes.

We care about those people's lives far more than icy neoconservative geopolitical amateurs with Ukraine flags in their Bluesky profiles and BlackRock stock in their portfolios. That's why we want the war to end. Not because we don't care — because we do.
Jason Jones

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