'I wanted to save lives.' How pregnant medic kept working on front line amid heavy combat

In between rescue missions in eastern Ukraine, in the midst of heavy combat, Yuliia #Romanenko got some elating news: she was expecting a child.

But she did not even consider quitting her job as a combat medic with the 67th Mechanized Brigade, which was fighting near #Bakhmut, the hottest front at the time.

"I faced a dilemma: how to combine (pregnancy) with (military) service, with the desire and goal that brought me to the army," Romanenko said

"I joined the military with one aim — to save people. I did not want to stop."

Romanenko, 33, continued evacuating the wounded weeks into her pregnancy and saving lives close to the front line until the eighth month.

https://kyivindependent.com/how-pregnant-combat-medic-saved-lives-on-the-front-line/

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