Ivan Matveichenko

Private Equity | Ukraine

April 19, 2024

Anybody who’s ever been in a fight or at war knows an importance of not giving up.

Every fight is a swinging pendulum. You take hits, then you deliver them back. But the trick is that you know how difficult this fight is for you, but you rarely know how difficult it is for your enemy. He is attacking you non stop and you feel like you are not going to make it, you run out of breath, you run out of energy.

What is really happening is that he is running out of energy too. Moreover, doubt creeps in into his mind: “I’m giving it all I can, but that bastard is still standing. What if I l’m not going to win?”. All you need to do is just not give up.

Right now tide is turning, I can feel it. Recent remarks by Johnson is only a small part of what is happening.

We are becoming technically superior, Europe finally woke up, bipartisan support in US is back, mobilisation law in Ukraine was passed, long term macro support is secured.

Russia is losing 1000 soldiers a day, sanctions are becoming more effective, Iran made a strategic mistake in Israel and China is keeping a safe distance.

Ukraine and allies are becoming stronger, enemy might look tough, but he’s in pain and starts to doubt his plans.

Slava Ukraini 🫡 and pass that bill!

P.S: With this post I’d like to commemorate my fallen comrades and close friends, who embody courage and never giving up.

1. Anatoly Vertepny “Vyhoda” – 10th mountain assault brigade “Edelweiss”, 3rd separate assault brigade “Azov”
2. Alexander Ivanchenko “Hortytsia” – 10th mountain assault brigade “Edelweiss”
3. Volodymyr Bekish – 10th mountain assault brigade “Edelweiss”
4. Artyom Bereznyuk «Tyomych” – 67th mechanised brigade, “Da Vinci’s Wolves”
5. Ivan Semerin “Grad” – 10th mountain assault brigade “Edelweiss”

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Comment from :

Ivan Matveichenko’s wife; Liubov:

I’ve written once that I always feel obliged to read about fallen soldiers. To keep them in my memory. These guys are forever in my memory as they fought together with my husband. Amazing fighters and just good humans, who were not born as all of us to fight the war, furthermore to lose their lives protecting their land in the center of Europe.