Tyson used to be a flower designer. Today she is a decorated combat medic who saves lives in the toughest spots. And she really misses her son…

by Lysychka-

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  1. Tyson a medic of the 110th Territorial Defense Brigade. She was a designer in her everyday life: she created floral installations and worked with interiors. But at the start of the full-scale invasion, she left her son with his grandmother and immediately joined the Territorial Defense:

    “There was no thought of running away somewhere, taking the child and leaving. I brought my son to my mother-in-law and went straight to the Territorial Defense.”

    Over more than three years of full-scale war, Tyson has evacuated wounded soldiers from the hottest sectors of the front – the Zaporizhzhia, Sumy, Kupiansk, Kherson, and Donetsk directions. She says that speed, precision, and composure matter above all else.

    “I only have two minutes on the road. In two minutes, a person can bleed out. At the very least, I must cut off all clothing and see what kind of wound it is – to understand whether we need to stop and hide somewhere to provide aid, or if we can keep driving and do everything properly later.”

    One day on the Kupiansk front, there was a russian drone circling above the evacuation point, ready to target the medics.

    “We had to drive not directly to the evacuation point, but a little further. From intercepted radio chatter, we knew they were waiting for us, but we had to go. There were two wounded: one with a leg injury, and another with a back wound. His skin was badly torn near the shoulder blade. I had to cut off his armor, cut off all his clothing, pack the wound, seal it, and bandage it.”

    But despite the hardships of war, she admits the hardest part for her is being separated from her son:

    “Last time he clung to me, cried, and said: ‘Mom, I want to go to the army with you, I want to live with you there, just take me with you.’ Once he asked: ‘Mom, why did you go there?’ I said: ‘Son, how could it be otherwise? If everyone had run away, Zaporizhzhia would no longer be ours. I had to go. I don’t want our city to be destroyed.’

    And my dream is that when the war ends, I’ll take my son and we’ll go on a trip together for a couple of months. Just wherever he wants, wherever I want – to see the world and spend time together, just the two of us.”

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  2. Reading stories like this both impresses me, because of the incredible courage and effort that so many people in Ukraine are showing, and angers me just as much because they are forced to be in that situation in the first place. All so a megalomaniac dictator can work on his ambitions to recreate the USSR.

  4. As a former infantry medic; those boots tell a story or two..

  6. What a wonderful, selfless human being. I wish you nothing but peace, health, and happiness. May the war be over soon and you be back with your son rejoicing with him. 💙💛

  7. Nice to get these living hero tributes.

    Some guys speaking a slavic sounding language were doing some construction near my place. I asked where they were from, they said Ukraine. I said “Slava Ukraini!” They all stopped and grinned. I guess the pronunciation wasn’t bad because they thought I was from Ukraine too. Great people.

  8. Patriot, hero, defender of Europe, arguably a defender of modern civilsation itself. On the internet that is. Obviously she is.

  9. Little trivia just in case somebody might be interested in the ambulance shown on the right side of the fourth picture (I know that there atleast one of you who has the right kind of tism for emergency vehicles). That’s a VW non-facelift T5 Transporter modified by Profile Vehicles, had exactly same interior in the rear as the decomissioned one I used to own for nearly a decade.

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