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Is there a place for coincidences in war? How can small details change fate?
We continue to tell funny and not-so-funny stories from the frontline from our defenders.
This time, Yuliia Sidorova, our sworn sister and paramedic with the 4th Assault Battalion of the 92nd Brigade, tells us three stories about fate and coincidences at the front. About a house on fire, three wheels and Birthday.
Story about the house on fire
At the beginning of this year, an enemy drone hit our location in Kharkiv region, the house where we were living at that time, and the house caught fire. We ran[...]
05.08.2024
In war, there is always a room for humour, for simple moments of joy shared with your sworn brothers, and for saving little furry lives.
Our sworn sister Khrystyna ‘Kudriava’, an officer of the National Guard of Ukraine, told us three stories about the war – about borshch, almost like mother's, about a promise to a sworn brother, and about a cat wearing orders.
A story about green borshch
The settlement of Zaitseve. We went with the personnel to work with SPG. We found a house there, in the house we found a dog, which was left on guard, and in the basement we found[...]
19.07.2024
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
The column "Three Stories About War" was created to share the experience of living through war directly in the combat zone and somehow reduce the distance between those who see war firsthand every day and those who are relatively safe in the rear.The narrators of the initial materials were female military personnel who shared their personal experience of war from the front lines.We believe it's time to broaden the focus. War extends far beyond the battlefield and directly affects the lives and destinies of those in the front-line areas.
We asked documentary photographer and volunteer[...]
22.03.2024
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