Shariy’s allegations against charities: fundraising and financial checks
No independent corroboration of the money-laundering allegations was found. We explain what UNITED24, the charities and Ukraine’s central bank say about donations.
Allegations of money laundering through Ukrainian charitable organisations, contained in an archived copy supplied to the newsroom of a Telegram post by Anatoly Shariy dated November 5, 2026, have not been independently corroborated by the sources reviewed by Media Visnyk. Meanwhile, classifying UNITED24 as a foundation differs from the platform’s own explanation: it is a government fundraising platform, not a charitable organisation.
The archived copy names UNITED24, Sternenko’s foundation, the Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation and Come Back Alive. The author alleges their involvement in cashing out criminal proceeds, including money stolen from cryptocurrency exchanges. These are the author’s allegations, not established facts. The full text of the specified post was unavailable in Telegram’s public web version during verification, so it was not possible to confirm whether the archived version remained current.
According to UNITED24’s official website, all funds raised through the platform go to accounts at the National Bank of Ukraine. Each of its six areas of support has a separate account linked to the relevant ministry. The platform says money from different areas is not mixed and reports on receipts and spending are updated weekly. Its website includes a report on receipts into the special healthcare account covering May 5, 2022, to October 30, 2026.
The Sternenko Community Foundation describes its main purpose on its website as supplying Ukraine’s security and defence forces with drones, primarily FPV models. Its reporting section lists daily drone-delivery reports, including one for November 5, 2026, as well as periodic and annual reporting. The Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation describes two areas of work — assistance to military personnel and civilians — and provides access to reporting. This information shows what activities the organisations publicly declare; it does not in itself constitute an independent check of the origin of every donation.
The newsroom found no independent corroboration of the fees, limits on incoming funds from abroad or specific laundering incidents alleged in the archived copy. The reviewed materials also contained no response by the named organisations specifically addressing this post. General pages about the charities and the platform cannot be treated as responses to the allegations.
The National Bank explains that financial monitoring includes customer checks and transaction analysis by banks and non-bank financial institutions. When suspicious transactions are detected, banks inform the State Financial Monitoring Service and law enforcement agencies. Assessing allegations of this kind therefore requires documentation of specific transfers and the findings of checks into them, rather than only a description of a supposed scheme or the existence of public reports on aid deliveries.
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