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b. c. 1994
Azov intelligence officer “Gendalf”
A titanium hook in place of his left hand, an artificial right eye. And it was he who spoke to the world's press for the defenders of besieged Azovstal in 2022. Azov intelligence officer Illia “Gendalf” Samoilenko went on to survive 120 days of captivity in solitary confinement.
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b. c. 1988
Assault soldier, veterans’ leader
On paper she was a seamstress; in fact she was an assault soldier fighting to free the Luhansk region. Andriana Susak-Arekhta volunteered for the war in 2014, then helped found the Women Veterans Movement so that women in the army would no longer be “invisible”.
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1996–2022
Combat medic
At 20 she walked into the enlistment office on her own to become a military medic. Medical service sergeant Kateryna Stupnytska carried the wounded out under fire and was killed in Kyiv oblast on 8 March 2022. Hero of Ukraine (posthumously).
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1892–1963
Officer of the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen
Legend says she was the first woman officer in the world. The real story: she disguised herself as a man to join the Sich Riflemen Legion, earned officer rank in battle in 1915, spent two years a prisoner of war, and later ten years in a Soviet labour camp for "Ukrainian nationalism."
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b. c. 1980
Marine, defender of Azovstal
Two photos of him, one at Azovstal and one after captivity, went around the world. Senior Sergeant Mykhailo Dianov of the 36th Marine Brigade defended Mariupol with a badly wounded arm, survived Olenivka, and once freed gave away 23.4 million hryvnias in donations to treat fellow soldiers.
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1970–2022
Combat medic, Hero of Ukraine
Soldiers called her Mom, and she could turn bewildered newcomers into combat medics in two weeks. Inna Derusova, a nurse from Kryvyi Rih, joined the army in 2015 and was killed in 2022 in Okhtyrka while saving the wounded. Hero of Ukraine (posthumously).
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b. c. 1991
Military medic, defender of Mariupol
She found out she was going to be a mother in besieged Mariupol. Military medic Mariana Mamonova spent half a year in Russian captivity while pregnant, came home in an exchange days before giving birth, and later set up a foundation for women who survived captivity.
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1883–1919
Colonel who led the Crimean campaign
In April 1918 his men raced across the Chonhar bridge into Crimea on a rail trolley, and Ukrainian flags went up over ships of the Black Sea Fleet. A year later Colonel Petro Bolbochan was shot on the sentence of a court of his own army, the army of the UNR.
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