Tyrx

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It's a scam, but I doubt this is some grand Russian plot to get money. In one of the pictures there's a flag of a popular Western Ukrainian neo-nazi organization called Svoboda in the background. There's literally no reason why any Eastern Ukrainian would be using this flag, and they would probably be mobbed by the locals if they did.

I'm thinking some rouge far-right Ukrainian military group has seized control of the orphanage and are now using it to "raise" money for their own interests. That's really the only thing that could explain that flag being in the background, unless the OP is lying about the location.

You would be hard pressed to find any Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) or the OUN flag that is being actively supported in the area in which you cited the orphanage being located in... I'm not going to take this with you any further though. Anyone that has read non-partisan sources on the origin of that flags know very well it means.

Why are you avoiding explaining why one of your original pictures had the flag of a popular Western Ukrainian neo-nazi organization called Svoboda in the background? There's literally no reason why any Eastern Ukrainian would be using this flag, and they would probably be mobbed by the locals if they did.