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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
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
About the most valuable things that soldiers carry with them, the values for which we fight with the occupier, and the strength that helps endure losses - three stories about war are told by the hospitalier Tetiana "Rudy" Romaniuk.
Story about the polaroid
Our hospitalier crew evacuates wounded soldiers and retrieves the bodies of the fallen. Sometimes we manage to take the bodies of the deceased immediately, during the evacuation of the wounded. But sometimes the bodies can lie for several months until the soldiers can retrieve them from under the shelling.Usually when a body is[...]
18.04.2024
Anzhelika Volovych, an uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) pilot and volunteer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, shares her memories from the war zone.
Read three stories about her work in the Ukrainian Air Force, her most difficult memories from the war, and the homeless dogs of Bakhmut.
A story about the report from ru💩💩ians
Now I work as a part of the FPV drones crew, where I am a navigator, although I prefer to fly. I love FPV kamikaze drones and the fact that with their help we can reduce the number of the enemy. From time to time, the commander gives me the opportunity to[...]
04.04.2024
Alisa Shramko, known by her call sign "Dolya," serves as a medical instructor in the Fastiv Territorial Defense Force (Volunteer Formation of the Territorial Community in the Kyiv region), a sub-instructor in the Volunteer Medical Battalion "Hospitaliers," and is a member of the Veteranka Movement. In her civilian profession, she is a social pedagogue and works as a senior staff member in the department of intangible cultural heritage at a museum. Additionally, she is a mother of two children.I found myself in the army entirely by chance. In 2018, I was looking for pre-medical aid courses,[...]
17.03.2024
On Volunteer Day, we invited paramedic and volunteer Olga 'Kroha' Bashey to tell her three stories about the war.
In 2014, Kroha went to save the lives of Ukrainian soldiers. Olga returned from the front lines in 2018, but in 2022, in the first days of full-scale invasion, she joined the forces again as a volunteer paramedic and continues to save the lives of wounded soldiers to this day.
Read about luck, true friendship, and death in war in Kroha's own words.
The story about luck
There was one story in 2014. We were working near Lysychansk and Severodonetsk. The commander[...]
14.03.2024
Iryna joined the Army at the age of 45. In January of 2015 she joined the Azov volunteer battalion. She had moved out of Crimea 2 months prior to that and in 6 months she joined the 24th brigade as a sanitary instructor where she was on combat duty on the frontline, was saving servicemen and was responsible for the health of the brigade. Today she is defending Ukraine as an aerial reconnaissance soldier.
My husband stayed in Crimea and I left with the children. At the time I was working in the medical field and the company sent me to Uzhgorod. There I started going to recruitment[...]
14.03.2024
On how to gain authority in the army, not to go crazy from the most terrifying job, on motivation and inspiration, as well as plans after victory, - read in the interview below.
On motivation
I couldn’t not go to war, physically and morally. I completed the tactical medicine instructor course in 2015. But after that, I lived a civilian life for a while. I believe a person shouldn’t go to war to gain something. War gives nothing. The people who go to war because they cannot help but do so, have the best motivation, those are the “right kind” of military, let's say so.
On life[...]
05.06.2023
From volunteering to aerial reconnaissance: about the path of a volunteer from the Euromaidan(the uprising against pro-russian government in Ukraine 2013-2014, - editors’ note), sexism, ageism and "soviet union thinking" in the army, about building relationships in a male team and mastering a drone with the help of YouTube, - read all about it in our interview.
How and when did you join the army for the first time?
I joined the army for the first time as a volunteer in January 2015. At the moment, the Vinnytsia battalion "Horyn" was stationed at the Kramatorsk airfield, and I went[...]
18.05.2023