The international delegation, headed by Ana Lucía Bueno, ICRC Public Health Coordinator, and Sujit Panda, Head of the Physical Rehabilitation…
Ukrainian defender Marta retrained from a cook to an unmanned systems operator and now daily breaks outdated stereotypes about a woman’s role in the military, proving her professionalism.
Her story was shared on February 7 by the 71st Separate Airmobile Brigade.
“A mother of two from Lviv. Today she keeps the enemy at a distance from our positions, covers her comrades in trenches, and finds dozens of targets — from enemy artillery to UAV launch points”.
Marta’s main goal is to ensure that her children never experience what war is.
“I enlisted and was sent to training. I was a cook, then head of dining operations. Then I got bored in the kitchen. I decided to transfer to a regular rifle platoon”, — she recalls.
Eventually she was offered to become a UAV operator.
“I thought I wouldn’t manage it at all, because me and drones — honestly, it seemed unreal”, — the soldier shares her first impressions.
However, it turned out that Marta ended up exactly where she needed to be.
“On every sortie, I can always find something. I like it. You know, for me it’s like a job now. I treat it as work”, — she admits.
