29 Facts About Yuliia Paievska

Yuliia "Taira" Paievska is a Ukrainian medic who founded the volunteer ambulance corps "Taira's Angels" during the Russo-Ukrainian War.

Yuliia Paievska was captured and imprisoned by Russian soldiers on March 16,2022 and released on June 17,2022.

Yuliia Paievska became a symbol of bravery and sacrifice according to the New York Times.

Yuliia Paievska served in the Ukrainian Army as the head of a military hospital in Mariupol from 2018 until 2020, when she was demobilized but continued to work as a volunteer medic.

Yuliia Paievska documented her work in early 2022 during the Siege of Mariupol with a bodycamera, and smuggled the video out of the city with the aid of a local police officer and international reporters on March 15,2022.

Yuliia Paievska has since been used in Russian propaganda videos, which accused her of associating with Nazis and committing crimes.

Yuliia Paievska was injured during her tour of duty, necessitating the replacement of both hips and leaving her with a partial disability.

Yuliia Paievska was slated to be the only female member of Ukraine's 2020 Invictus Games team, competing in archery and swimming, but her capture prevented her from competing in the rescheduled Games in April 2022.

Yuliia Paievska's daughter competed in her place and won a bronze medal in archery.

Yuliia Paievska showed an interest in medicine as a young child, and worked under the tutelage of her school nurse, who worked as a medic in World War II, and who taught Yuliia Paievska how to make and apply bandages and tourniquets.

Yuliia Paievska was an experienced ceramicist and worked as a designer.

Yuliia Paievska had 20 years of experience as an aikido coach and was president of the Aikido Federation "Mutokukai-Ukraine".

Yuliia Paievska began by providing medical care to wounded protesters under fire on Hrushevsky Street in her native Kyiv, and decided to remain on the front lines with other like-minded volunteers.

Yuliia Paievska taught tactical medicine at military training grounds, and, later, on the front lines.

Yuliia Paievska worked as a liaison between civilians and the military in front-line towns that lacked medical personnel.

Yuliia Paievska is credited with training over 100 medics, and Taira's Angels is credited with saving hundreds of wounded civilians and military personnel from all sides of the conflict.

Yuliia Paievska's unit deployed to Mariupol where she commanded the 61st Mobile Hospital.

Yuliia Paievska was demobilized from the Ukrainian military in 2020, but she and her "Angels" continued to work there as volunteer medics.

Yuliia Paievska described Paievska as a former member of Right Sector, a leading ultranationalist group.

In 2021, Yuliia Paievska received a body camera to take part in a documentary series about inspirational people being produced by Prince Harry, founder of the Invictus Games.

Yuliia Paievska used the bodycamera to document injured civilians and soldiers in Mariupol.

Yuliia Paievska was 52 or 53 years old at the time.

Yuliia Paievska has appeared on the Russian NTV network and on television networks in the separatist Donetsk region, handcuffed and with her face bruised.

Yuliia Paievska is considered a "prize" by Russia because of her esteemed reputation in Ukraine as a star athlete who trained the country's volunteer medic force.

Yuliia Paievska said she would have not be surprised if she had ended up in a Gaswagen and it was not a joke.

Yuliia Paievska was injured during her tour of duty and had to replace both hips with titanium endoprostheses, which left her partially disabled.

Yuliia Paievska joined the Ukrainian team for the 2020 Invictus Games in the Netherlands, an athletic competition for disabled veterans, to inspire the wounded soldiers that she had treated, hoping that they, too, would join the Games after recovering from their wounds.

Yuliia Paievska was the only woman on the Ukrainian team, and was to compete in archery and swimming.

At the Games, Yuliia Paievska's daughter met with the Prince Harry, the Invictus Games's founder, and his wife Meghan Markle, to discuss her mother's captivity.