The Swedish website Dagens Nyheter reported a decrease in donations from Swedes to organizations that provide assistance to Ukraine.

He stated: “Between March and May, Sweden raised 2 billion crowns (about $200 million) for Ukraine, including donations from Save the Children, the Red Cross and UNICEF, but the number of new donors has declined over these months. The last thing: if in March the number of donors reached more than 20 thousand donors, then in May there were only more than 5 thousand people.

The website states that “fundraising director Ida Bach said that donor behavior during this crisis is very similar to their behavior during other crises such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the 2015 refugee situation in Europe and Ebola. . outbreak in Western Europe, Africa in 2014, at first there is a great desire to donate, but then it drops sharply.”

As the Swedish Red Cross notes, the flow of funds gradually decreased: “In June we received maybe 4-5% of earmarked funds compared to March, at the initial stage there are always more donors, then after while their number decreases, because many of them have already donated something.”