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It was there from the very beginning. I realised that my potential was much greater than staying abroad to raise my children. I was engaged in humanitarian aid, volunteering, but this is not the same as I have a medical degree and experience in intensive care.
With the beginning of the full-scale invasion, Oksi decided to take the children abroad to a safe place, and joined the ranks of the National Guard.
What do children mean to you, how do you keep in touch with them?
Children are the people for whom I am at the frontline now. This is my support and backing, which gives me[...]
13.06.2024
Liudmyla "Malva" lived in Moscow together with her youngest son Stanislav. In 2012, they returned to Ukraine and participated in the Revolution of Dignity.
At the age of 50, Malva became a volunteer of the Aidar battalion. She worked her way up from the clerk to the first sergeant of an assault company. In 2018, she became the first woman who headed the armored service of the battalion, after being wounded she received the second group of disability, but at the beginning of the full-scale war she returned to the front as a combat medic and a senior sergeant for logistical support. She[...]
01.06.2024
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 January 3, 2024, we launched our first Veteranka Movement podcast about female military personnel in combat positions.
Our podcast is being listened to throughout the country on all popular audio platforms, including Ukrainian ones - NV podcasts and Megogo.
We are in the Apple Podcasts top 40 chart (for the society and culture shows category) and in the top 10 podcast recommendations.
3 thousand users listened to the podcast during the first 2 weeks. About half a million listeners heard the podcast on the radio Bayraktar, and 20 mentions were made in the mass media of[...]
20.03.2024
A strong and professional army can only exist with respect for personal boundaries and human dignity. Therefore, the systematic counteraction to sexual harassment and gender-based violence in the military sphere should finally take place.
Currently, the Ukrainian army has one of the highest rates of enlisted women — more than 62,000 served in the army alongside men, but sexual harassment issues in the military remain unresolved. It is important to note that not only women suffer from sexual harassment, but also men.
According to the "Monitoring of recommendations and research results[...]
20.03.2024
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