How could she get her weapon and battle once more?
"I saw a wide range of mercilessness and damnation down and dirty on the forefront."
Olena Ivanenko says this. Ukrainian troopers battling against Russia.
At the point when we initially meet her, she is being treated for wounds supported on the front line.
Until that day on February 24, 2022, she was only a normal lady.
She got back to the front line.
The experience was abrupt. she lifted her hand
We were at the Service of Guard press focus. I had quite recently shown up from Poland the day preceding following a 12-hour venture. Since Russia's tactical intrusion, all trips to Ukraine have been suspended, so the best way to enter us is via land from the adjoining country.
The fundamental street from the Clean boundary to Kiv drove interminably through the fruitful land known as Chernozem (Dark Land Belt). The earth was covered with yellow sunflowers and met the blue sky at the skyline. The view seemed to be a spread out Ukrainian banner.
A gathering was being held at the press community, open to the press. The object was to examine issues and countermeasures for treatment of troopers who experienced mental harm in the combat zone. The gathering united authorities and specialists from the Service of Safeguard.
As the gathering attracted to a nearby after about 60 minutes, the mediator declared, ''We will be taking inquiries from the press.'' Then, at that point, a lady who was sitting in a similar spot as the columnists immediately lifted her hand. She is wearing a tactical cap and a khaki shirt.
"We warriors get harmed on the front line. At the point when we get back from the war zone, we might confront different hardships, however I need the officers who go to the front line to discover that this is ordinary."
"The leader at the scene had areas of strength for intellectually, he was not a specialist who could connect with individuals' souls. That is the reason we really want support."
Her comments contained a tone of analysis towards the Service of Guard and the military. In light of her own insight on the front line, she grumbled that there was lacking mental help for warriors.
This was my most memorable experience with Olena Ivanenko, a female warrior in the Ukrainian armed force.
For will, opportunity, life and Ukraine
"You could possibly hear the voices of warriors face to face."
In the wake of meeting her for the present news, her Ukrainian associate quickly asked her for her contact data. The following day, I quickly started speaking with Ivanenko.
She is 42 years of age and filled in as a specialist in the food and drink industry before Russia's tactical intrusion.
After the Russian armed force attacked, she elected to help evacuees.
Then, last December, she elected to turn into a fighter. In Ukraine, men are by and large dependent upon military enrollment, yet Ivanenko, a lady, elected to serve since she needed to safeguard her country.
"For will, opportunity, life, and Ukraine. That is all I had. That is the reason I chose to battle on the bleeding edges."
Ivanenko was appointed to her tip top 47th Autonomous Motorized Detachment and shipped off the furiously battled southern locale of Zaporizhzhia Oblast. It was the bleeding edge of the Ukrainian military's counteroffensive to retake regions involved by Russia.
A video that she shot herself. An enormous automatic weapon weighed in the tight channel, just about the width of a man's shoulders. Blue tape is folded over his cap and arms. This is a marker of the Ukrainian military. Russian soldiers are wearing formality. This is to recognize one another.
As though to counteract her breathing, I heard a cannonball flying out of sight, trailed by a dry blast. I could see her demeanor distort in shock.
Living close to death. Indeed, this is a combat zone.
Injured by a shell, she shouted
Ivanenko battled on the forefronts as a heavy weapons specialist. In any case, this June, a shell from a Russian tank arrived at short notice. Luckily, she made due, however she supported a physical issue in which shell pieces profoundly dove into the calf of her right leg.
As of now, a significant number of her kindred troopers who were battling close by her passed on.
Indeed, even as she was moved to the emergency clinic with wounds, she kept on shooting herself.
She was by all accounts battling frantically to acknowledge the situation of the circumstance she had regarded herself as in.
she was shouting.
"Keep in mind! The conflict is still on!"
The passing of my companions one after another...what would it be advisable for me to do?
We met Ivanenko at the press community when she left the front line and got back to Kiev to get treatment for her wounds. Two days after I initially met her, we met at an enormous park in Kivu. Ivanenko was planning to meet with a mental guide at the recreation area.
The male instructor likewise had experience dealing with the bleeding edges as an officer. The two plunked down confronting each other on a seat in a bistro in the recreation area. The Rose of Sharon blossoms around me were straight from the downpour that had fallen not long previously. The variety is covered with Ivanenko's purple-colored hair.
Maybe to cause her to feel more loose, the instructor gave her a ball. Mrs. Ivanenko strokes the surface to really take a look at her reaction. The two began talking. Around three minutes had passed. Ivanenko uncovered that her kindred warrior had passed on.
He said he got the news via virtual entertainment not long before he got on the tram to get to this area today. Then, at that point, she squashed the ball in her grasp with her hands and she started to cry.
"As I was going to the tram, I got a message that my better half's pal 'Gold country' (military code name) had died. I just cheerfully recollecting him."
The departed was a 41-year-old male trooper. He was a confidant on the bleeding edges. He was purportedly going through treatment after his appendages were excised.
"How might I become acclimated to this sort of information? I would rather not become acclimated to this," Ivanenko cried, crying. In the more than two months since her physical issue and her re-visitation of Kiev, Ivanenko has gone to the burial services of three of her friends.
The advisor told Mrs. Ivanenko, ''You are presently encountering misfortune after loss.I accept that putting yourself in a climate where regular people reside will offer you a chance to steadily mitigate the aggravation.'' He encouraged them that submerging themselves in the environment would be better.
This isn't the city I should be in
In any case, it wasn't so natural for her.
In spite of the fact that Russia's tactical attack proceeds, many shops in Kyiv are open and life is by all accounts getting back to business as usual. She admitted to us that her "regular daily existence" can once in a while turn into a weight.
At some point, I turned out to be at a café with my sweetheart's companion, and there was a dispute between a client and a staff member. When she saw this, she contemplated internally, ''For what reason would we say we are quarreling about such trifling things? On the combat zone, troopers are battling a decisive fight.'' It is said that it was.
She says that she felt that ''we fighters are not putting our lives in danger on the bleeding edges to safeguard these individuals.''
"Kiu is presently not the city I ought to be in. I need to get back to my companions in the combat zone."
Sentiments like the mistake Ki-charm had in his "day to day existence." And it appeared to be that the presence of her companions who battled on the bleeding edges, putting their lives in extreme danger, drove her to her combat zone.
Not entirely settled. When her leg injury recuperates, she will get back to the war zone.
She showed us the scar on her calf. He says he feels a tad of torment.
It was basically impossible that the specialist would give consent. She said she was informed that she was possibly mostly recuperated and that assuming she propelled herself excessively hard, she could become disabled from now on.
There were likewise shell sections eliminated from her injury. How could she feel when it hit her?
She said, ''It hurt and just felt 'hot.' There was an opening, yet fortunately the actual leg was fine.''
Furthermore, she additionally enlightened me regarding her loved ones. Her family home is in the southern province of Odessa.
She said that she as of late gotten back and invested energy with her folks and more youthful sisters at her folks' home.
"I remained with her folks for about seven days. We talked, had a good time, helped around the house, and chuckled a ton. My folks' house was warm."
It was a brief gathering. On the day she got back to Kyiv, her folks didn't protest.
Notwithstanding, she is said to have sent her girl away with an irate and harsh look all over as she wouldn't abandon her will to go to the combat zone in the future.
Ivanenko was planning to get back to the war zone. He was permitted to go with me shopping. She said she will buy new gear like tactical armor carriers. Yet, for what reason do you need to get it yourself?
"After really encountering battle, I understood that I expected to focus closer on assurance, since sections of shells would get into her armpits and around her neck through holes in her shield."
She called attention to the fact that the provisions gave to the Ukrainian military were frequently of low quality. The vast majority of them are made for men, so the size may not fit.
At the point when Ivanenko showed up at a specialty store close to Kyiv Station, he quickly started choosing gear. She asked the store representative numerous inquiries. She was specific about light and tough defenders. In the war zone, little contrasts in weight and measure can be essential. He was not kidding around, as his own life was in question. Her costs surpassed 100,000 yen in Japanese yen.
There are individuals and main residences to secure.
As Ivanenko plans to get back to the front line, he depends on his companions for everyday reassurance.
From the front pocket of her tactical armor carrier, she painstakingly took out a photograph. There was a message composed on the back.
''This photograph will constantly accompany me. Continuously together. According to it, ''We are consistently close by.'' My number one companions. Karina, Alexandra, Katya and me. "
Ivanenko acquainted me with her companions individually. Each time she takes a gander at this photograph, she says, it fortifies her conviction that she has individuals and a country to masterAs of now, we saw that Mrs. Ivanenko's knapsack had an American banner fixed on it. On the off chance that he's a warrior of the Ukrainian armed force, for what reason would he say he is wearing an American banner? At the point when posed her inquiry, she answered:
''In the wake of applying for the military, I went through preparing, and the educator around then was an American.He gave me the fix as a talisman.I got the preparation at a base in Germany.I then, at that point, ventured out overland to Poland. I left there and took a departure from that point."
The Star-Radiant Standard represented one more part of this "war." The West backings Ukraine by giving weapons and ammo as it battles against Russia. It was undeniably true that he was giving preparation to troopers of the Ukrainian armed force, and Ivanenko was really engaged with this.
Why return to the combat zone?
For what reason do we take such measures to battle? Isn't it frightening?
"There's consistently dread. For everybody, for me."
"Until February 24, 2022, I lived in my own reality. I couldn't have cared less about the contentions that were occurring in the east, as in Donbas. Also, the opportunity has arrived to safeguard Ukraine."
Precisely one month has passed since I met her in late August.
We were supplanted by our replacements in the revealing group, and we each got back to Paris and Tokyo, where we normally work. I left Kiev, entrusting my Ukrainian partner with the inclusion of Ivanenko.
Then, at that point, a little more than seven days after the fact, it was September fourth. Her partner informed me that she had left Kiev via train.
There was likewise a photograph of her with her companions seeing her off.
Moreover, her partner sent her a photograph with the message, ''She shared it with me.''
The photograph shows a Japanese 5-yen coin strung through a string around her left wrist. At the point when the photographic artists who cooperated on the meeting headed out in different directions after the meeting, they gave it as a charm ''5 yen'' and ''great luck.''He got back to the war zone.
"Just power drives out the adversary"
A couple of days after the fact, new data came in.
As she remained on the bleeding edges, another shell landed near her. In the recording, Ivanenko can be heard shouting, "We're beaten! We're beaten!" inside the residue filled channel. Obviously it occurred around September tenth.
A short time later, it was affirmed that Ivanenko was protected. Obviously, the war zone is constantly encircled by risk. At the point when we asked her again and again, ''For what reason did she return to the war zone?'' She let us know this.
"Down and dirty on the forefronts, I saw a wide range of brutality and damnation. There, I understood that the adversary won't ever vanish."
"We should overcome them unequivocally. Simply forcibly could we at any point drive them from our territories."