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Bohdana Korovaieva — ATO veteran and reserve officer, founder of the “Territory SPA” center
Bohdana Korovaieva is an ATO participant, former sanitary instructor of the 30th Separate Mechanized Brigade named after the Ostroh Princes and the 54th Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, now a veteran and reserve officer, founder of the “Territory SPA” center in Chernihiv.
Before her service, Bohdana worked in medicine and education: for 13 years she worked as a nurse in the intensive care and anesthesiology department of an oncology dispensary, practiced[...]
22.05.2026
On May 20, the VETERANKA movement, together with legendary Ukrainian writer Oksana Zabuzhko, are transferring the “Maul” ground robotic complex to the “Vedmedi” Unmanned Systems Battalion of the 39th Separate Marine Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. This will be the first marine brigade to use this technology to save lives at the front.
The transfer of the complex became the finale of a large-scale fundraising campaign totaling 4 million hryvnias, which accompanied nationwide screenings of the internationally acclaimed film Cuba & Alaska about the work of Ukrainian[...]
21.05.2026
Kateryna “Zelena” Drapiata, veteran, senior soldier, sanitary instructor of the 93rd Separate Mechanized Brigade “Kholodnyi Yar,” sister-in-arms of the Lviv branch of the VETERANKA movement
“We must continue what we started”
The turning point for me was January 2014, during the Revolution of Dignity on Independence Square in Kyiv. I myself am from Melitopol, Zaporizhzhia region. I had quite a “Soviet,” Russian-speaking environment. Despite this, I was a participant in various patriotic organizations, in particular Right Sector, so when the Maidan began, I could not[...]
19.05.2026
Veteran Tetiana Chudnovets on war and creativity as therapy
Tetiana Chudnovets is a sister-in-arms of the Vinnytsia branch of the VETERANKA movement, an ATO veteran, writer, and veteran support specialist in the Makhnivka community.
Since 2014, Tetiana volunteered, and in 2017 she joined the military as a volunteer and received the call sign “Podolianochka.” She became a senior riflewoman in the 46th Separate Assault Battalion “Donbas-Ukraine.” She shares that military service completely reshaped her vision of life.
For three years she fought in Donetsk and Luhansk regions.[...]
14.05.2026
We are relaunching the branch in Lviv to support women veterans and active servicewomen of the city and the region
The goal of the project is to unite active servicewomen and women veterans of the city and region around the branch, to inform them that there is now a place in Lviv where they are awaited, understood, and always ready to support their ideas and projects. The branch itself will become an autonomous space of resilience, support, development, and realization of the leadership potential of servicewomen.
The campaign “There Will Be a Movement Here” is intended to find new[...]
14.05.2026
The VETERANKA Movement is launching its local branch in Lviv and the Lviv region. To ensure effective work of our team, we are conducting a survey among women and men veterans in the region.
The aim of the research is to understand the real situation regarding the accessibility of services for veterans and the key challenges specifically in the Lviv region.
The results of this study will form the foundation for the further work of the local branch. In particular, we will identify which services are truly lacking in the city and region, in order to advocate for their implementation or[...]
07.05.2026
Global IT product development company United Tech has launched Veteran Product Lab, a course for women and men veterans.
The program is an intensive training course designed to help veterans transition into product IT. Participants will receive a strong theoretical foundation through lectures, work on real product-related tasks, and have the opportunity to begin cooperation with United Tech in the role of Product Manager or Product Assistant.
The course is intended for people with managerial, analytical, or leadership experience who want to apply their skills within product[...]
07.05.2026
«I don’t tell my story to be pitied. I tell it so people know what Russian captivity is really like»
Tetiana Buhai is a former combat medic of the 12th Special Purpose Brigade «Azov» of the National Guard of Ukraine, a veteran and member of the VETERANKA movement, who joined the defense of the country on the first day of the full-scale invasion. She survived the siege of Mariupol, the loss of her mother and husband, and two and a half years in Russian captivity.
During a prisoner exchange in September 2024, the defender returned home.
In civilian life, Tetiana worked as an emergency medical technician in Mariupol. When Russian troops launched their assault on her hometown, she[...]
07.05.2026
Solomiia “Gloria” Chernykhivska is a former military correspondent of the Azov press service, a veteran, and a sister-in-arms of the VETERANKA movement.
Solomiia Chernykhivska has gone from a student of a music academy to a military correspondent of Azov, where for more than five years she documented the war from within. Today she works in the defense sector and preserves the memory of the fallen, for whom she became both a voice and a chronicler.
Before her service, Solomiia Chernykhivska was a student at a music institution, where she studied the piano. She had strong musical[...]
24.04.2026
We have selected the grantees for the first round of individual grants within the Culture Helps Solidarity / Культура допомагає: Солідарність.
We received a total of 167 applications, of which we were able to support 7 within our budget (though we would have liked to support more). The grantees in this round are artists, cultural figures, workshop leaders, playwrights and cultural managers from Sumy, Kamianets-Podilskyi, Dnipro, Kropyvnytskyi, Kyiv, Kharkiv and Kraków. All of them work with internally displaced persons, refugees or veterans and will[...]
21.04.2026