# Ukrainian government sells NFTs combining art and tweets to fund army

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/ukrainian-government-sells-nfts-combining-art-and-tweets-to-fund-army/
- Published: 2022-04-04T09:30:52-05:00
- Author: Curated by Theresa Wysocki

Image caption: The second NFT work in the drop includes an image by the artist Ivan Ponomarchuk and a tweet from Ukraine’s minister of foreign affairs. Article by Sophia Kishkovsky. The Art Newspaper – March 31, 2022. The drop comes from the Meta History Museum of War, the official collection of Ukraine’s Ministry of Digital Transformation Ukraine dropped a series of NFTs yesterday to raise funds in support of the country’s army and civilians. Ukraine’s powerful and prolific social media communications (while under Russian attack)—the result of a very young and technically savvy government—are reflected in the NFTs, which are made up of wartime tweets and artist’s images. Each work costs 0.15ETH (£390). […] Click here to view original web page at www.theartnewspaper.com Curated by Theresa Wysocki See Full Bio