Star Wars actor Hamill’s campaign sends 500 drones to Ukraine

This is reported by Bloomberg.

Actor Mark Hamill, who played the Jedi character in George Lucas’s original Star Wars trilogy that debuted in 1977, is serving as a fundraising ambassador for Ukraine’s Army of Drones project. 

Very simply: Ukraine needs drones. They define war outcomes, they protect their land, their people, they monitor the border, they’re eyes in the sky,” Hamill said in an interview with Joe Mathieu on Bloomberg Radio’s Sound On.

According to the actor, he himself was surprised by the success of the project.

“I was really shocked because they give me these updates at least two or three times a week about what’s going on and they said they’ve received over 500 drones since I started this,” Hamill said. 

Earlier this month, Hamill tweeted an image of a lone X-Wing fighter, the model flown by his Skywalker character, in the blue and yellow colors of Ukraine’s flag facing off against a fleet of Star Destroyers flown by the evil empire.

• At the end of September, Hollywood star and Star Wars actor Mark Hamill became an ambassador for the fundraising platform United24. 

• Artists all over the world and celebrities support Ukraine and join UNITED24.

• American vocalist, composer, actress and director Barbra Streisand became the ambassador of the UNITED24 initiative.

• A limited collection of speakers was installed in the brand's stores in Europe with a call to support Ukraine and donate through UNITED24.

• Spotify renamed the Music of Ukraine playlist to UNITED24: Music For Ukraine. It will include new songs. The platform also creates a new way of supporting Ukraine.

• As part of the 24,000 Friends of Ukraine project, benefactors from different countries can sign up for a monthly subscription to UNITED24 for USD 24.

• On September 5, it became known that in four months of operation, the United24 platform crowdfunded almost USD 200 million to help Ukraine.