Chronicles of Ukraine’s Fight and Resistance
Maria Berlinska is a Ukrainian public figure and volunteer of Jewish descent. She’s the founder and head of the Public Association “Aerial Reconnaissance Support Center,” which conducted drone operator training courses and imported UAVs. In 2017, she made it into Kyiv Post’s 2017 Ukraine’s Top 30 Under 30 ranking. When the Russian-Ukrainian war began in […]
Yuliia Paievska is a Ukrainian servicewoman, paramedic, volunteer, and military medic. Since 2018 — commander of the “Taira’s Angels” unit and evacuation department of the 61st military mobile hospital. Before 2014, “Taira” worked in art ceramics and book graphics. When the first clashes began during the Revolution of Dignity, she helped the wounded and thus […]
The short haircut, tattoos and dark-lined eyes of this woman involuntarily provoke you to fill in her biography in your head. She could quite possibly be a rock star. She could tell about concert tours, alcohol-drug parties and crazy plans. But on her shoulders is a military backpack with patches. On it, written in green […]
On October 30, 2017, Ukraine lost one of its brightest and most devoted daughters — Amina Okueva. Near the village of Hlevakha in Kyiv region, unknown killers shot up her car. Amina died from received wounds. Her husband, Adam Osmaev, was wounded but survived. Just months earlier, there had already been an assassination attempt on […]
38-year-old Olena Bilozerska, a sniper of the Ukrainian Volunteer Army, shows a video. It’s part of a Ukrainian female sniper interview that captures the calm precision behind her work. On the screen is a recording from the thermal imaging scope of Olena’s rifle. Small, almost cartoon-like, little men stand out as bright spots against the […]
After another rehabilitation course from Tel Aviv to Dnipropetrovsk, Yana Zinkevich returned to Ukraine. She flew to Israel for treatment for the second time in March. The 20-year-old girl, head of the volunteer medical corps “Hospitallers,” suffered a severe spinal injury when a terrible accident struck on the Dnipropetrovsk-Pavlograd highway on December 4 at 4:30 […]
On December 5, the website of Right Sector, sectorpravdy.com, reported that volunteer Yana Zinkevich serious condition became known after a car accident. She was hospitalized in extremely critical state. However, there is little data regarding the circumstances of the tragedy. Law enforcement officers of Dnipropetrovsk region refuse to comment on the accident. According to Yana […]
Anya Hvozdyar, volunteer. Сharming and brave girl. Before war she was an economist and working for a while in the US. In Ukraine was the owner of the company in the field of advertising, marketing hotel chains. Activist of Maidan, helped by medicine. Then, with the war – volunteer at the Kyiv Central Military Hospital. […]
Yuliia joined the Kulchytskyi Battalion of the National Guard after being a volunteer for this same battalion, that’s why soldiers call her Jinni, as she can make wishes of getting new boots or bulletproof vests come true. Before volunteering and Maidan, in her early twenties, she was studying to become a policeman.
Some Ukrainian women after the beginning of Russian aggression have decided not to go into the army, and joined the volunteer battalions. The reasons may be very different: example health status or age (in the Ukrainian army did not take women younger than 20 or older than 40 years). All these women have a common […]