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‘Captures the reality of this terrible war through the voice of a remarkable young woman’ Fergal Keane, BBC Foreign Correspondent
Drawing on a series of interviews with Lieutenant Yulia Mykytenko through the winter of 2023/24, Lara Marlowe paints a searing portrait of life on the front line and offers insights into Ukraine’s past and possible future.
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 front line in Donbas.
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.
