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Yulia Payevska: “The army wins battles, but it’s the people who can win the war”

In her civilian life, she is a designer, president of the Mutokukai-Ukraine Aikido Federation, 5th dan aikido. Since 2013, she has participated in the Revolution of Dignity and the war in eastern Ukraine as a paramedic. She is a commander of the volunteer medical evacuation unit “Taira’s Angels” and the evacuation unit of the 61st …

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Yulia Shevchuk: “It is very difficult not to fight when there is an ongoing war”

Student I am from the city of Lubny, Poltava region, and lived there with my grandmother until I was in the 9th grade.  In the 10th and 11th grades, my parents took me to Kyiv to enter the university. I have been living in Kyiv for 12 years now.  I could not imagine that my …

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Oleksandr Budko: “I like to show people that it is possible to reach the top without legs, arms, or any other body parts”

Before the full-scale war I studied food processing engineering. So I worked as a barista in one of Kyiv’s cafes for a reason. I worked and studied graphic design at the same time. In general, I was engaged in self-education – courses, and lectures. I was planning to finish my career in the restaurant industry …

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Vadym Maznichenko: “If not just one person, but a lot of people express their gratitude, it will give veterans confidence and understanding that they did not fight in vain”

The first year of the war “Until 2014, I worked in Kyiv installing metal structures. And I went to war voluntarily and became a grenade launcher. My ego led me then, and I knew I had to do this. I was a paratrooper during the compulsory military service. So I felt obliged to do it. …

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Ihor Derman: “I want to show the world that we are still here, we have not all been killed yet, we are fighting and will continue to fight”

The beginning of the war When I was deciding where to go to school, I chose between a military university and a university of civil defence, which was subordinated to the Ministry of Emergency Situations. I really wanted to help humanity. I decided that I would be able to do this thanks to my certain …

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Veniamin Bondarchuk: “When you evacuate the wounded and killed, there is no time to think about how sorry you are for everyone”

A dream of the sea Since childhood, I wanted to be a sailor. I loved the sea. We travelled to Crimea in 2006-2008, to Simferopol, Sevastopol, Yevpatoria. As a kid, I would look at the horizon, see ships and tell my father: “I will grow up and go to work on a ship. I just …

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Nazar Vozniuk: “In the army, there is something you cannot find in any other circle – a sense of trust”

A premonition of a full-scale war I lived in Kryvyi Rih, happily, with my wife and small child, who was almost three years old in 2014. I worked as a lawyer, had my own law firm, and hosted a TV program in which I tried to explain complex legal issues in human terms. The war …

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Kostiantyn Kobylianu: “I didn’t come to the Invictus Games on my own – I was brought by fate”

Part of the army I am from Zaporizhzhia. For the last four years, I had been working as a forklift driver at a company called Silpo. But on February 26, 2022, I was already at the distribution point, holding a rifle, already part of the army. Back on February 22, I quit my job. I …

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