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Tell me about your military experience - how did you get involved in it, and what motivates you?
My story began in 2014, when I participated in the Revolution of Dignity. In the spring of the same year, as one of the first volunteers of the Maidan, I went to the Luhansk region for 5 days. As a result, I got mobilized for a year and became a participant in combat operations as part of the assault group of the "Aidar" battalion. I was demobilized when my son was born.
I couldn't continue fighting, so I decided to engage in social activities and I headed the Women Veterans Movement. All[...]
17.08.2022
She is extremely energetic and brave in the fight for a free Ukraine. She is not just saying that, but is ready to take risks and responsibility. Hanna Demidenko was an active participant in the Revolution of Dignity, including providing medical assistance. In the early years of the war in Donbas, she succeeded in fighting for the recognition of volunteer soldiers at the official level. Currently, she works in the civil service at the Ministry for Veterans Affairs of Ukraine and actively volunteers at the Women Veterans Movement's rapid response headquarters.
She is one of those who[...]
03.07.2022
There is a new "crush" in our Drone creation team. He is 14 years old and he create drones with his father for two years.
Their joint hobby starts with the fact that the boy became interested in the FPV drones he saw on the Internet. He became so interested that was able to learn how to fly drones on a simulator and assembled his "iron bird" within 4 months. His father, who studied at the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute and understands drones, supported his son's hobby.
Now the family helps to create drop systems for drones in our WWM center. We can't pass by, because it's so sweet, isn't[...]
11.06.2022
The owners of this beautiful Maine Coon cat declawed him, which is a prohibited surgery, so that he wouldn't damage the furniture. When they fled Kyiv at the beginning of the war, there was simply no room for him in their car, but it seems like there was no room for him in their hearts either.
Left on the street, the animal becomes disabled after such a horrible manipulation, as it cannot defend itself, cannot hunt for food, and cannot even break a fall. A creature left in such conditions is doomed to die. The owners knew about this. Our volunteers found him scared, hungry, and thirsty,[...]
18.05.2022
This cheerful woman can sing, comfort, and hug each of us sincerely every day. Teresa is in charge of the Ukrainian Women Veteran Movement’s Rapid Response Headquarters’ “Crispy Muscovites” Bar. It is here that the famous "Bandera smoothies" are made - the famous "Molotov cocktails" in Ukraine. She willingly shares how to mix a cocktail, what ingredients should be used and in what proportions, as well as what security measures should be followed in order to successfully resist the occupier.
This is not the first time Teresa has taught someone. In peacetime and to this day, she[...]
18.05.2022
Elena adressed Ukrainian Women Veteran Movement with this phrase.
Elena is from Hostomel. After the shelling on her house, the apartment and her belongings burned to the ground. After miraculously escaping, the woman and her children hid in the basements of destroyed houses for almost two months to avoid the occupiers. And when Hostomel was freed from the russian army, Olena returned to look at her house. The woman stared out with the empty kitchen window at the stove, where she had recently cooked delicious pancakes for the children, at the place where the table used to stand, where she[...]
05.05.2022
From the first day of the war, she spends the night with her three children and two grandchildren in one of Kyiv's bunkers to protect her family from russian missile bombardment. From the first week she collects parcels with humanitarian aid and manages the product stock of the rapid response headquarters of "Ukrainian Women Veteran Movement".
During the full-scale invasion, she worked on 1,500 applications for assistance from the Ukrainian military and civilians. Each left a mark in her soul.
When asked by her grandchildren why "our brothers" are killing us, she said that in a[...]
08.04.2022
On February 24, my mother called me and said, "Lena, the war has begun." Honestly, I was in a very big shock. I couldn't believe it. I did not hear any explosions. I woke my daughter up and said, "Get up, the war has begun." On the second or third day of the war, my godmother Nina and I got in touch and came here. Her husband and son immediately joined the Ukrainian Armed Forces. I had to do something because it's not in my nature to sit at home. Since then, I have been at the Ukrainian Women Veteran Movement rapid response headquarters.
Our task is to provide the Ukrainian Armed Forces[...]
04.04.2022
She is always calm, even-tempered, and friendly. Also, she can speak openly and without loud words, it seems, about everything she has in mind. So the story of 24-year-old Veronica, a volunteer of the Ukrainian Women Veteran Movement, is presented in the first person.
I had a normal life. I worked in a restaurant. Six months ago I left Mariupol and returned to Kyiv and began to establish my life here. Everything went as usual, but there was anxiety in the air. I tried to get used to the thought of a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. Burning documents at the Embassy was a key moment[...]
29.03.2022
Maksym Sheremet, the developer of the first Ukrainian military drone for Berehynia reconnaissance operations and ex-constructor of Ukroboronprom, has set up his laboratory on the based in Ukrainian Women Veteran Movement not only to repair and modernize quadcopters but also to mass-produce own drones.
The engineer spoke about the technical characteristics of man-made drones, their cost, successfully satisfying needs of Ukrainian special forces, and what can upgrade thermal imaging module, by hanging it on any drone.
What are the recent needs of the Ukrainian army were you able to[...]
24.03.2022