On 12 October, Run Ukraine’s third ‘Bigozbir’ reached its goal, after running for three months. This is a charity initiative where Ukrainian businesses that supported ‘Bigozbir’ converted each kilometre run by participants into funds. Every kilometre run was transformed into a 10 hryvnia donation.
‘Bigozbir’ brought together 9,255 runners, who together covered 871,483 kilometres. Thanks to each participant, 9 million hryvnias were raised for charity.
The fundraising campaign took place from 19 July to 12 October and ended with the 15th anniversary PrivatBank Kyiv Unbroken Marathon 2025. During this time, participants could join one of the following fundraising groups:
- PrivatBank‘s ‘Speed Saves Lives’ fundraiser in support of the Superhumans rehabilitation centre;
- Work.ua converted kilometres into drones for the Khartia brigade in the fundraiser ‘Run for Khartia – Let’s Collect Drones’;
- The UKRNAFTA petrol stations network held a fundraising campaign called ‘Charging the sky for the Third Assault Brigade’;
- Morshynska supported the NextStep Ukraine rehabilitation centre in the fundraising campaign ‘Make NextStep with Morshynska’;
- ‘Kilometres for the PRIDE group – the special purpose assault unit of the SBU’s Central Security Service A’ – a fundraising campaign supported by the Yabko;
- INTERPIPE supported the 25th separate airborne brigade of Sicheslav in the fundraising campaign ‘Holding the heights for those who are first’.
Third ‘Bigozbir’ in numbers and interesting facts:
The largest running team was united by a fundraising event for the Khartia brigade, supported by Work.ua, called ‘‘Run for Khartia – Let’s Collect Drones.’ Over the course of two fundraising events, 2,173 unique participants joined the team.
The most active participants in the ‘Bigozbir’ were Olena Shevchenko, who ran 1,721.841 km for the ‘Speed saves lives’ team, and Mykola Lykhozhon, with a distance of 1,632. 33 km for the ‘Holding the heights for those who are first’ team, and Mykola Zuev (1336.294 km) for the ‘Speed saves lives’ team.
About the geography of the third ‘Bigozbir’. Most of the runners who joined the initiative were from Ukrainian cities such as Kyiv, Dnipro, Kharkiv, Vinnytsia, and Odesa. In addition to Ukrainians, ‘Bigozbir’ brought together runners from 44 countries around the world. Most of the foreign participants were from Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, and the United States.
Under the terms of participation in the ‘Bigozbir’, it was possible to donate for missed training sessions. As a result, participants donated over 170,000 hryvnias to the PrivatBank fund accounts.
21 offline running team meetings were organised this season. These meetings connected 7 Ukrainian cities and over 1000 runners.
The entire Run Ukraine team would like to thank everyone for these incredible results!
