Female Combat Medic and mother of a fallen son Destroys Russian Assault Group, Awarded for Heroism

Headline of the day! What a heroine!

"Combat medic Svitlana from the 128th Territorial Defense Brigade, currently deployed in the Zaporizhzhia area, saved her fellow soldiers from an attempted enemy encirclement. Spotting the threat, she grabbed a grenade launcher and, with a precise shot, eliminated a group of advancing Russian troops, according to a statement from Ukraine’s General Staff on Monday, May 12.

Svitlana who before the war was a highly experienced intensive care nurse at the Mechnikov Hospital in Dnipro, volunteered for Ukraine’s Territorial Defense Forces at the start of the 2022 full-scale invasion,. ...

Svitlana’s son, also a volunteer, was killed in fighting near Bakhmut."

Female Combat Medic Destroys Russian Assault Group, Awarded for Heroism "With her unit surrounded and no one in command, Svitlana took over, seized a grenade launcher, and used it to wipe out the group of enemy attackers."

Notice she wears cosmetics! 😊