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Violetta Kirtoka
About me: Journalist
Registered: 23.02.2016
Gender: Female

"To restore Ukraine’s population to its pre-2022 level, every woman would need to have eight children," - Kyiv Perinatal Centre director Dmytro Hovsieiev 9 985100

Army Aviation Colonel Vasyl Mulik: B#stards did not see it coming, rockets suddenly started flying at them out of darkness 14 6215

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" 4 2702

What happened at military exhibition near Kyiv in first minutes after the strike 22 24034

People’s Hero of Ukraine Major General Mykhailo Drapatyi: "I thought I’d serve somewhere on staff of some brigade. That was ceiling" 19 05137

"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 33114

"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 916228

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 98161

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 84730

Few days before she was killed, Hospitaller Iryna Tsybukh wrote to friend: "I am becoming ’Minute of Silence’ zealot" 20 54812

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 5 0405

Chief sergeant of 1st Assault Regiment Jockey: "I stabbed GRU operative to death with captured knife I had taken from another dead Russian" 17 67916

"AFU command shifted from Zaluzhnyi’s reasonable and humane system to Syrskyi’s dysfunctional authoritarian system" – Hero of Ukraine Kashchenko 40 45697

"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 2226

"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 23 07028

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 49619

"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 14141

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 72816

Enemy is facing shortage of personnel in Pokrovsk direction: occupiers who signed contract at end of January this year are being taken prisoner 8 63338

Disconnection of Starlinks to ruscists: number of assaults and intensity of fire have decreased 6 26317

"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 17014

Huliaipole is almost lost: What is happening on front line in first weeks of New Year 12 95452

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 5764

Command post in Huliaipole: 17 of our fighters against three Russians 33 58535

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." 24 08126

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 3556

Same is happening in Myrnohrad as in Pokrovsk month ago 14 56360

Pokrovsk: guys are fighting, but first enemy tank has already rolled into city 12 08315

"Enemy has begun to infiltrate Pokrovsk because our units are short of manpower and we cannot maintain tight defensive line." 10 67140

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 0745