📗 Libro en inglés HOW GOOD IT IS I HAVE NO FEAR OF DYING

The first time Lara Marlowe interviewed Lieutenant Yulia Mykytenko in Ukraine in 2023 Marlowe realized that the 28 year old woman army officer was one of the most extraordinary people she had encountered in 42 years of journalism Mykytenko was born in Kyiv in July 1995 She co founded the female squad of the 16th regiment of the Self Defence Force during the 2013 14 Euromaidan protests which overthrew the corrupt pro Russian president Viktor Yanukovych She married Illia Serbin a soldier in 2015 and joined the army to serve with him in Donbas the following year Mykytenko briefly left the army after her husband was killed in a Russian bombardment but re enlisted on the first day of the full scale Russian invasion of 24 February 2022 She commands a 25 man drone unit on the frontline in Donbas Drawing from a series of interviews with Mykytenko through the winter of 2023 24 Marlowe paints a searing portrait of life on the frontline and offers insights into Ukraine s past and possible future How Good It Is I Have No Fear of Dying is a compelling story of a country at war and a fearless woman fighting for its survival