Her name was Savita Wagner. She was 36 years old.
She was German.
Until 2022, Savita had never been to Ukraine. She had no friends here.
Then she saw Bucha after its liberation.
And that was enough for her to realise she could no longer stand on the sidelines.
At first, she delivered humanitarian aid to Ukrainians.
And then she took a step that not everyone would dare to take:
she joined the Ukrainian army.
‘Karpatska Sich’.
Call sign — ‘Zmiya’.
Savita became a combat medic.
She ran under fire to reach the wounded.
She applied tourniquets.
She pulled her comrades to safety.
She saved lives in a place where she herself could have lost hers at any moment.
She came to Ukraine and
died defending people she had never even known before.
Three weeks before her death, Savita met her mum in Kyiv.
And Savita said these words to her:
‘Mum, I’m defending Europe’s freedom.’
And she returned to the front line once more.
Under Russian fire, a wounded comrade needed help.
Savita did not abandon him.
She went after him into the line of fire.
And this time, she did not return.
Savita could have stayed in Germany.
She could simply have sympathised with Ukraine.
She could have helped with money or humanitarian aid.
But she chose otherwise – to risk her own life for the freedom of people she had never met.
And she paid the ultimate price for that choice.
Savita Wagner — German by birth. A Ukrainian heroine by choice.
May as many people as possible learn her name today.
Savita Wagner.
A heroine who saved others until the very end.
🇺🇦🕯️ Eternal memory. Eternal honour.
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🇵🇱🇺🇦 FM Radosław Sikorski:
“Russia didn’t win the Crimean War.
It didn’t win the Russo-Japanese War.
It didn’t win WWI.
It didn’t win the Battle of Warsaw.
It didn’t win in Afghanistan.
And it didn’t win the Cold War.”
The idea that Russia cannot be defeated is propaganda.
Today, our long-range sanctions once again worked to limit Russia’s oil revenues, which it uses to finance the war and the killing of Ukrainians.
Ukraine’s Defense Forces struck the aggressor’s facilities more than 1,300 kilometers from the front line. The Bashneft-Novoil refinery was hit in Bashkortostan. In the Yaroslavl region, nearly 700 kilometers from our border, the Slavneft-YANOS refinery was hit.
Our responses to Russian aggression in the Black Sea were also successful. In particular, two military patrol boats and shadow fleet vessels were struck.
I thank all the warriors of the Defense Forces who are systematically expanding our long-range capabilities and thereby increasing the chances for diplomacy. Russia must choose peace — @ZelenskyyUa