Amid the continuing struggle between Russia and Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky has been seen on quite a few events sporting an olive inexperienced shirt, which has sparked the sale of the shirt throughout on-line marketplaces.
Zelensky's iconic olive inexperienced shirt, which options the Ukrainian Armed Forces image, is at present on sale throughout a number of on-line marketplaces, together with Amazon, eBay and Etsy.
The sale of the shirt on-line comes as Zelensky has been seen sporting it whereas addressing a number of completely different nations just about. Zelensky has been seen sporting the shirt in digital speeches to the U.S. Congress, and each the Canadian and European parliaments. Whereas sporting the shirt, Zelensky has continued to sentence the Russian invasion of Ukraine and name on different nations for help within the ongoing struggle.
"Assist Ukraine President Zelensky Saying Ukrainian Image T-Shirt," one Amazon itemizing says.
Equally, on Etsy, vendor Wayne, who owns the WanderDogSwag store listed a shirt as "The Zelenskyy Tee - Males's Cotton Crew Tee | Ukrainian President Zelensky Tee | As Seen On TV | Assist Ukraine | Stand With Ukraine," and famous that fifty % of the shirt's earnings will likely be going to aide Ukraine.
Whereas talking with Newsweek on Wednesday, Wayne defined that he was first prompted to start promoting the shirts by his brother, who knowledgeable him that Zelensky was seen on the information sporting the shirt. Since itemizing the shirt on Etsy, Wayne mentioned that orders have "exploded."
Wayne informed Newsweek that shirt gross sales actually started to extend following Zelensky's speech in entrance of the U.S. Congress.
"There's cash being made," Wayne mentioned.
In line with Wayne, since itemizing the shirts final week, he has made a revenue of round $3,000, which signifies that he plans to donate round $1,500 to Ukraine utilizing Care.Org. Wayne defined that he plans to attend until the tip of the month to donate the portion of earnings, as a substitute of creating a number of smaller donations after every sale.
Shortly after itemizing the shirts, most of Wayne's gross sales had been from individuals within the U.S. exhibiting help for Ukraine, however in current days, gross sales have come from different areas throughout the globe.
"Off the highest of my head; Poland, Czechoslovakia, I acquired one this morning from Singapore, just a few Australian ones, just a few Nice Britain ones, a pair from Portugal," Wayne informed Newsweek.
Regardless of the help for the shirts from many, some others resembling monetary commentator Peter Schiff, have criticized Zelensky's shirt.
"I perceive occasions are arduous, however does not the President of the #Ukraine personal a go well with? I haven't got a lot respect for present members of the U.S. Congress both, however I nonetheless would not handle them sporting a t-shirt. I would not need to disrespect the establishment or the Unites [sic] States," Schiff wrote on Twitter final week.
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