Description acceptable. A member of the Ohio State women’s swim team raised over $12,000 for this cause as she filmed herself using a StairMaster for 24 hours straight. The rival rabbis Yaakov Bleich and Moshe Reuven Azman each present themselves as the leading Jewish voice in favor of this secular cause. A man nicknamed Bohdi (“Bodie”) discussed his six months abroad aiding this cause with date partners on Netflix’s Love Is Blind DC. UNICEF gave a “Goodwill AmbassaDog” award to a Jack Russell terrier named Patron (“pah-TRONE”) who has become a mascot for this cause. The UNITED24 campaign takes donations for this cause, whose pop music expression includes remixes of the band Boombox and Kalush Orchestra’s contest-winning song “Stefania” (“STEH-fah-NEE-ah”). At the 2025 Oscars, Daryl Hannah said the word “Slava” as part of a slogan supporting, for 10 points, what war effort overseen by Volodymyr Zelenskyy? ■END■
ANSWER: pro-Ukraine [or national defense of Ukraine; or Ukrainian sovereignty; or Ukrainian resistance to Russian invasion and/or occupation; accept any answer indicating Ukraine’s side of the Russia-Ukraine war; accept Slava Ukraini; prompt on answers such as Russia-Ukraine War by asking “which side?”] (The swimmer is Olena Sadovska. “Stefania” was Ukraine’s entry in Eurovision 2022.)
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