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Bohdana Korovaieva — ATO veteran and reserve officer, founder of the “Territory SPA” center
Bohdana Korovaieva is an ATO participant, former sanitary instructor of the 30th Separate Mechanized Brigade named after the Ostroh Princes and the 54th Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, now a veteran and reserve officer, founder of the “Territory SPA” center in Chernihiv.
Before her service, Bohdana worked in medicine and education: for 13 years she worked as a nurse in the intensive care and anesthesiology department of an oncology dispensary, practiced[...]
22.05.2026
Kateryna “Zelena” Drapiata, veteran, senior soldier, sanitary instructor of the 93rd Separate Mechanized Brigade “Kholodnyi Yar,” sister-in-arms of the Lviv branch of the VETERANKA movement
“We must continue what we started”
The turning point for me was January 2014, during the Revolution of Dignity on Independence Square in Kyiv. I myself am from Melitopol, Zaporizhzhia region. I had quite a “Soviet,” Russian-speaking environment. Despite this, I was a participant in various patriotic organizations, in particular Right Sector, so when the Maidan began, I could not[...]
19.05.2026
Veteran Tetiana Chudnovets on war and creativity as therapy
Tetiana Chudnovets is a sister-in-arms of the Vinnytsia branch of the VETERANKA movement, an ATO veteran, writer, and veteran support specialist in the Makhnivka community.
Since 2014, Tetiana volunteered, and in 2017 she joined the military as a volunteer and received the call sign “Podolianochka.” She became a senior riflewoman in the 46th Separate Assault Battalion “Donbas-Ukraine.” She shares that military service completely reshaped her vision of life.
For three years she fought in Donetsk and Luhansk regions.[...]
14.05.2026
We are relaunching the branch in Lviv to support women veterans and active servicewomen of the city and the region
The goal of the project is to unite active servicewomen and women veterans of the city and region around the branch, to inform them that there is now a place in Lviv where they are awaited, understood, and always ready to support their ideas and projects. The branch itself will become an autonomous space of resilience, support, development, and realization of the leadership potential of servicewomen.
The campaign “There Will Be a Movement Here” is intended to find new[...]
14.05.2026
The VETERANKA Movement is launching its local branch in Lviv and the Lviv region. To ensure effective work of our team, we are conducting a survey among women and men veterans in the region.
The aim of the research is to understand the real situation regarding the accessibility of services for veterans and the key challenges specifically in the Lviv region.
The results of this study will form the foundation for the further work of the local branch. In particular, we will identify which services are truly lacking in the city and region, in order to advocate for their implementation or[...]
07.05.2026
Global IT product development company United Tech has launched Veteran Product Lab, a course for women and men veterans.
The program is an intensive training course designed to help veterans transition into product IT. Participants will receive a strong theoretical foundation through lectures, work on real product-related tasks, and have the opportunity to begin cooperation with United Tech in the role of Product Manager or Product Assistant.
The course is intended for people with managerial, analytical, or leadership experience who want to apply their skills within product[...]
07.05.2026
«I don’t tell my story to be pitied. I tell it so people know what Russian captivity is really like»
Tetiana Buhai is a former combat medic of the 12th Special Purpose Brigade «Azov» of the National Guard of Ukraine, a veteran and member of the VETERANKA movement, who joined the defense of the country on the first day of the full-scale invasion. She survived the siege of Mariupol, the loss of her mother and husband, and two and a half years in Russian captivity.
During a prisoner exchange in September 2024, the defender returned home.
In civilian life, Tetiana worked as an emergency medical technician in Mariupol. When Russian troops launched their assault on her hometown, she[...]
07.05.2026
This year, women service members — members of the VETERANKA Movement — were once again included among the top 100 leaders of the UP 100: Power of Women award in the “Defenders” category.
Among them are Daria “Hilka,” Yana “Multyk,” Dzvenyslava “Mahura,” Tetiana “Tango,” Viktoriia “Smetana,” Yeva “Yunha,” Brittney “Zhuk,” Rina Rieznik, and Kateryna.
This year, the VETERANKA Movement became a partner of the UP 100: Power of Women award — another step toward increasing the visibility of women, which is one of the Movement’s core values. The jury in[...]
01.04.2026
Mariia Berlinska
1. Before 2014, I studied at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Faculty of Humanities. I planned to study historical science and cultural management.
2. I decided to join the army as a volunteer in the summer of 2014, when the war broke out. It was the most logical and obvious decision for me at the time. It did not come easy to me. Of course, I was very scared, but courage is not when you are not scared. It is when you are scared, but you still force yourself to go forward. In the beginning of September, I joined Dobrobat in Luhansk region. It was there that I started[...]
03.09.2024
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