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Violetta Kirtoka
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Registered: 23.02.2016
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UGV operator Vladyslav Martynov: "This spring, one of our robotic vehicles completed 70 missions, evacuating nine wounded soldiers and bodies of four fallen troops and transporting tonnes of cargo" 3 1612

What happened at military exhibition near Kyiv in first minutes after the strike 21 43034

People’s Hero of Ukraine Major General Mykhailo Drapatyi: "I thought I’d serve somewhere on staff of some brigade. That was ceiling" 17 87037

"How can it be that I am Hero of Ukraine, but Da Vinci is not?": On Ada Rohovtseva’s role in awarding Dmytro Kotsiubailo title 8 09614

"If son-in-law is in mood, he’ll bring your boys back in trunk," sister of 155th Brigade commander’s wife said after brothers’ abduction 42 640228

Major Oleksandr Shyrshyn: "Those who send people off in droves aren’t held to account. Everything’s fine with them – it’s war, after all." 18 80661

Veteran Oleksandr Mazurenko (Mekhan) on obstacles to business in Bila Tserkva: I’ll force them to sort things out. Otherwise, what did I fight for? So that everything would stay as it was? 8 80530

Few days before she was killed, Hospitaller Iryna Tsybukh wrote to friend: "I am becoming ’Minute of Silence’ zealot" 20 45712

SOF strike UAV company commander Dzhokhar: It is like fishing from distance of 40 km. You sit tight and wait for big fish to swim by 4 9435

Chief sergeant of 1st Assault Regiment Jockey: "I stabbed GRU operative to death with captured knife I had taken from another dead Russian" 17 62216

"AFU command shifted from Zaluzhnyi’s reasonable and humane system to Syrskyi’s dysfunctional authoritarian system" – Hero of Ukraine Kashchenko 40 29397

"We shot down Ka-52 helicopter, worth $16 million, with FPV drone on fibre-optic cable costing one and half thousand," – Commander of "High Altitude Predators", Condor 6 1736

"Nothing was prepared anywhere. We started digging, taking up defensive positions. There were no weapons, except for few assault rifles," - Roman Kovalenko (Revizor) on first days of battle for Kyiv 22 89628

Doctors for Heroes project founder Natalia Liutikova: There are many cases when guys say, "I carried my jaw in my hands and spat out all my 28 teeth" 6 43019

"Over four years of full-scale offensive, I have had only 10 days of leave, and I spent even those days on phone and at computer, carrying out commander’s tasks" 32 08041

Mortar operator Oleh Kononchuk, call sign Konon: "I was climbing stairs to close entrance to basement when I saw FPV on fibre optic cable – it was ’staring’ right at me" 11 69116

Enemy is facing shortage of personnel in Pokrovsk direction: occupiers who signed contract at end of January this year are being taken prisoner 8 57038

Disconnection of Starlinks to ruscists: number of assaults and intensity of fire have decreased 6 22017

"Bullet went through my leg and shattered bone in my son’s leg as I carried him in my arms. Wound was so large that doctor could push his hand straight through it." 9 11714

Huliaipole is almost lost: What is happening on front line in first weeks of New Year 12 92052

Vadym, 155th Brigade Unmanned Systems Pilot, call sign Hurman: "We went into Pokrovsk for 16 days, but stayed there for 80 – most of that time encircled." 8 4954

Command post in Huliaipole: 17 of our fighters against three Russians 33 49435

93rd Brigade soldier Anton Samarin: "Railway station workers in Okhtyrka refused to unload our equipment on morning of February 24 because they were… changing shifts. And cars carrying FSB officers in civilian clothes and column of Russian military vehicles were already moving through city." 23 93526

Stas Stovban, call sign Waltz: "In first year without my leg, I wore three prostheses. I broke first one when I jumped out of APC, another one was shot off" 7 2966

Same is happening in Myrnohrad as in Pokrovsk month ago 14 53160

Pokrovsk: guys are fighting, but first enemy tank has already rolled into city 12 04815

"Enemy has begun to infiltrate Pokrovsk because our units are short of manpower and we cannot maintain tight defensive line." 10 64540

Aerial reconnaissance officer of "Khyzhak" Brigade Mykola Tkachuk, call sign Street: "I’m tired of war. Very. But I’m not even considering taking leave" 4 0385

Iryna Dovhan: People are somehow horrified when they hear about raped female pensioners. But there are dozens of them. 19 56228

Head of Kharkiv Region Patrol Police Viktor Levchenko: Explosions in Luhansk region began on February 24 immediately after Putin’s speech ended 6 8238