Netflix's Reed Hastings announces $1 million donation to Ukraine

Streaming giant Netflixs cofounder chairman and coCEO Reed Hastings has announced a 1 million donation to an organisation providing emergency relief to Ukraine1m donation on the way for emergency relief to Razom wrote the Netflix executive thanks to evgeny_director Every dollar helpsevgeny_directora is Russianborn Evgeny Afineevsky who directed the Oscarnominated documentary Winter on Fire Ukraines Fight for Freedomfor Netflix in 2015The film documents the unrest in Ukraine in 2013 and 2014 as student demonstrations supporting European integration grew into a violent revolution calling for the resignation of President Viktor F Yanukovich an movement that is not unrelated to the Russian invasion and the stiff resistance it now facesThese people will not be slaves They will not go back into the former Soviet Union Afineevsky told Deadline last week reports deadlinecomThey have a taste of freedom They became a part of the European society and they wanted to go a completely different direction than MoscowThats the direction that they are fighting toward since Maidana Believing in their freedom believing in the freedom for the future of their own kids it just proves that these people will not put their weapons down They will be fighting until the last drop of bloodThe Ukrainian Revolution prompted Russian President Vladimir Putin to seize Crimea in 2014 and then to foment revolt in Ukraines eastern provinces next to the Russian border Putin declared those provinces part of Russia shortly before he ordered the fullscale invasion of Ukraine last weekThe organisation to which the donation is going Razom for Ukraine describes itself as a nonprofit supporting Ukrainian people in their pursuit of democracy with dignity justice and human rightsLast week it posted the following tweet about its work in the countryRazom together with about 20 orgs has created a trusted corridor from the US to Ukraine for the delivery of lifesaving supplies The channel connects two warehouses in Poland and Ukraine from which supplies can then be delivered furtherToday the organisation retweeted Hastings announcement with a photo of Afineevsky and a caption that reads This is Razom with evgeny_director what fees like ages ago But this picture also represents a great friendship that has sustained throughout the years and until now when were so glad to have Evgeny on our side Thank youLast month Hastings and wife Patty Quillin who is a producer donated 10 million to scholarship programs at Tougaloo College and Brown University In 2020 the couple made a combined 120 million donation to the United Negro College Fund Morehouse College and Spelman CollegeThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever