Ukraine soldiers Life Stories
Before the Full-Scale War, Dmytro Shavaldin Repaired Household Appliances. Now He Commands a UAV Unit of the 79th Brigade and Is a Hero of Ukraine.
“Gold’s” First Combat Deployment Lasted Nearly a Month and It Ended with a Russian Assault and Shrapnel Wounds to His Arms and Legs/
SSO company commander “Eighteenth” led a five-day operation to evacuate wounded soldiers from the enemy rear, covering more than 50 km.
Krisfaka, a former Colombian Army serviceman, joined the Magura brigade after 10 years of civilian life.
“Kozak” is a 22-year-old infantryman serving with the 72nd Separate Mechanized Brigade named after the Black Zaporozhians.
A support brigade is about much more than obstacles and fortifications.
They were destroying Russian columns in the very first hours of the full-scale war.
Oleksandr, whose callsign is “Noir,” made a conscious decision to sign a one-year military contract last summer.
He survived Bakhmut, Soledar, and Kherson. He was buried under debris while entering the recently liberated city of Kherson.
He learned to recognize the sound of an engine the same way people recognize the voices of loved ones.
Staff Sergeant of the 48th Engineering Kamianets-Podilskyi Brigade Mykhailo Rozhoniuk has been defending Ukraine since the first days of the full-scale invasion
From an electronics engineer and chef at elite restaurants, he became a first-class electronic warfare specialist and is celebrating Christmas and New Year near Pokrovsk for the second time, reliably protecting the sky from enemy drones.
When Russia launched its open armed aggression against Ukraine in 2014, the invaders expected Ukrainians to offer no mass organized resistance.
The commander of the Bohdana self-propelled artillery gun, Junior Sergeant Vasyl, call sign “Ham”, is from Vinnytsia and serves in the 52nd Separate Artillery Brigade.
If you feel like a warrior, your path is constant struggle. It is service despite danger, doubt, and exhaustion.
Oleh Dashchenko had a unique profession for Ukraine — he was a rice breeder.
He paid a 700-hryvnia fine just to gain the opportunity to become a volunteer in the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Soldier Serhii, with the callsign “The Director”, could, on entirely legal and highly respectable grounds, have avoided taking up arms in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
“I have an anniversary tomorrow”, — says Azov fighter Rusty. “My release from captivity. It’ll be exactly a year”.
Andrii, with the vivid medieval callsign “Baron” from Vinnytsia, has served in the Armed Forces since 2011. Choosing a contract service, at 18 he began his path from a private to the senior sergeant of the 52nd Separate Artillery Brigade.
He introduces himself briefly: Oleksa, chief sergeant of a rifle battalion of the 4th Separate Heavy Mechanized Brigade. And he gives a firm handshake.
“I used to think being a sapper was an easy job,” — says soldier Vitalii, laughing ironically.