With the war, more than 70,000 women joined the ranks of the Ukrainian army. Among them, Youlia Sidourova, alias “Kuba”, a former 28 -year -old seamstress, heals and evacuates the wounded. Already a fighting in 2014, she re -engaged in 2022.
This time, she is sent In a large abandoned building about 15 km from the front. She has been camping there with her unit for two months and occupies various tasks: ambulancers, nurse and trainer. It reconditions emergency kits, stored in many boxes. These packages were sent from abroad by “A friend who lives in Italy, who provides us with war medicine” et “By a Ukrainian in the United States, who helps us regularly.” “The state has no sufficient capacity. It is good that people are ready to help us,” Note the young woman.
Tattoos on his arms all linked to war: “A Molotov cocktail, a symbol of the Maidan revolution”, “the badge of a medical service that I set up in the Da Vinci unit in 2017”. “And if I had enough time and enough money, I would have even more!”, she launches. Her black eyes and matte skin, who make her look like a Latin American, gave her her war name, “Kuba”. Being a woman in the army has never been a problem for him. There is good “Sexist jokes, unpleasant moments”, she said, But it’s still exceptions. “
Talking about Kuba is also talking about his inseparable watermelon, a young Teckel found in the ruins of Kherson. Her comfort when she returns from a medical post on the front because “Yes, I’m tired. We are all tired!”, recognizes Kuba. “But I have no other choice. You do what you have to do and you see that it is useful, you see the results. That’s what motivates you”, she adds.
Much more than the gesticles of Donald Trump. “I knew he couldn’t get along with Putin, that nobody would do it”, she said. That’s why “We should only count on ourselves”, said Kuba, who claims not to know “When this war is going to end”, But who is “100%safe” that‘”It will end with our victory!”. The young woman can then find civil life, reopen her sewing workshop in kyiv, and perhaps have a child.
