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The situation wasn’t particularly dangerous, but she couldn’t bring herself to do her job as her fellow soldiers were getting wounded. "I found myself trapped in the dugout corner, trembling like a frightened mouse," Olena told the Kyiv Independent. Just before, Olena’s unit had come under heavy fire near the front-line town of Robotyne, in the midst of the Ukrainian counteroffensive in the summer of 2023.