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We launched the Plan B Power Center project, initiated by Tetiana Borys, a member of the Veteranka movement, who lost her husband, a soldier at the 58th Motorised Brigade in February 2023.
This project is a set of approaches and measures to study the experience of getting through bereavement in the context of the Russian-Ukrainian war.
Its mission is to study the experience of getting through bereavement for conceptual changes in the approach to working with the families of fallen soldiers at all levels of government - local authorities, social and legal support. As a result, family[...]
12.07.2024
Olha “Fenix” is a paramedic. Her path is not easy and it is dramatic. Olha is a mother of two children, son and daughter, and she joined the army to replace her severely wounded son. Unfortunately, she did not make it.
What do children mean to you, how did you keep in touch with them?
My daughter is my support. She is 19 years old. I live for her. And my sworn brothers - they are all like children to me. I could not save my son, but I can save someone's child, someone's brother, someone's husband. I have this opportunity. That is why I am here.
I always have my son's old[...]
20.06.2024
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