By Natali Moss
"He just inspired me to continue the fight. He said he supports Ukraine and all of us. And that the Invictus Games family always cares about its members, ”Taira says. Paaevskaya was retrained to a paramedic in 2014, when Russian troops invaded the Donbas. Taira assisted more than 500 Ukrainian military in the Donbass, and taught the basics of tactical medicine. “The Russians told me that it is better to commit suicide because they would still kill me, but I tried to believe that surviving.
I had absolutely no information about what was happening in the world. I didn't even know if my family was alive and whether my house survived, because the Russians were almost in Kiev when we were leaving. It was said that no one supports us, that other countries give us only old, rusty weapons. They said that we did not need anyone, and that we have forgotten about Ukraine for a long time, ”Paevskaya said.
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