Rating of Focus "Ukrainian of the Year": Paramedic Julia "Tyra" Paevskaya, which was captured by the Russian Federation

As part of the rating of "Ukrainian of the Year" focus, the editorial staff introduces readers to its nominees. To save people's lives former designer and a coach with Aikido started with the Maidan. When the first clashes during the Revolution of Dignity began, it helped the wounded and became a paramedic of Euromaidan. From 2014 to 2018, she conducted tactical medical training at the forefront at the Donbass at the head of a volunteer unit of paramedics.

For the first 5 years of tactical medicine teaching, its course was mastered by almost 8 thousand people, and its team rescued about 500 fighters. Tyra herself rescued dozens of fighters in the Svitlodar direction in 2016, and near the village of Shirokin in 2020. In 2018, Paaevskaya signed a contract with the Armed Forces and headed the evacuation unit of the 61st mobile military hospital in Mariupol.

After the start of a full -scale invasion, on March 16, 2022, the Russian invaders seized Yulia in captivity when she tried to evacuate women and children from Mariupol to Zaporozhye. The invaders accused Taira for the "execution" article, motionlessly pressed and said that it had a chance to survive 1%. She was kept in a pre -trial detention center in Donetsk. She spent 3 months in captivity - she was released on June 17, 2022.

"During the three -month imprisonment, Ms Payevskaya lived in a tiny chamber with 22 other women, lost 9 kilograms and survived torture and beating. The Kremlin propagandists were falsely squeezed her in the international arena as a" fascist "and" military criminal ", but did not force ladies Payevskaya is silent. "Just imagine it. In my hands, children, civilians, women, old people died . . .

I don't know how it can be forgive (…) War is, you know, insatiable with* He wants to drink our blood constantly. As early as 2021, he handed over Tyri to the breast camera to remove the materials for the Netflix movie about motivating people. At the beginning of a full -scale invasion, she managed to remove her work in the paramedic in Mariupol. On the eve of captivity, she entrusted a flash drive with a police officer who handed it to the Associated Press.

They carried it through 15 Russian posts and in May 2022 published some of the personnel. After the release from Tyra captive, together with public activist Dana Yarova, the Ukrainian Foundation "Dream Foundation" was founded. He takes care of 1. 5 thousand families In the "Games of the Unackles", where two gold medals and one bronze. In 2023, the "Fatherland" Medal "and the Defender of the Fatherland".

Security conferences, which emotionally called on the international community for more active support of Ukraine, in particular through the provision of weapons. Yulia Payevskaya continues to work as a public figure, actively supporting military and volunteers. She often speaks of injuries to war, noting that the whole country is currently experiencing PTSD.