Ukrainian media reported on Sunday the death of Jana Rychlicka, a 29-year-old volunteer who died near Bakhmut during the evacuation of the wounded. The ambulance in which the woman was riding came under Russian fire. “It’s a black day for all those she helped,” said one Ukrainian volunteer.
Jana Rychlicka died on Friday near Bakhmut in the Donetsk region, Ukrainian media reported. The ambulance she was driving came under Russian fire.
In Bachmut, Rychlicka was a paramedic at the stabilization point, where the wounded come straight from the battlefield and are prepared for the way to the medical facility. Jana was called the “angel of soldiers” at the front, wrote a journalist and volunteer from Vinnitsa Vadym Pavlov, who reported that he had met her several times.
To the message published on social media, he attached several photos of the 29-year-old volunteer helping those in need.
The Ukrainian Pravda portal reported that Jana Rychlicka worked in an IT company before the Russian military invasion. When last February Russia she attacked Ukrainebecame a volunteer, and then volunteered for the army.
Ukrainian soldierIllustrative photoMinistry of Defense of Ukraine/Facebook
“It’s a black day for all those she helped,” commented the death of Jana Rychlicka, Ukrainian volunteer Valerij Bagiński. Jana’s friends and acquaintances told Ukrainian journalists that “she did everything for victory and risked her life to help the wounded.”
PAP, Ukrainian Truth, tvn24.pl
Main photo source: Ministry of Defense of Ukraine/Facebook