sofia chelyak and today we will talk with the military poet iryna chornoguz iro hello hello now you aret medic of the reconnaissance battalion and until 2019 it was actually impossible for ukrainian women to hold a combat position so a large company entered so for advocacy so that women who were actually on paper seamstresses or laundresses after all their business their rank was recognized yes but on the other hand uh you had little maybe you have opportunities and little opportunity to work uh in culture so write influence you are a strong voice ukrainian culture and actually my first question, since you chose the path of the military, and why was it not enough for you to be a member of the cultural front, i hate this wording, but it is often used . and yes, and why was it important for you to combine ? well, i wanted to join the war as i was a volunteer in the 14th year, but then i couldn’t, because i became a mother in the 14th year . all these years i felt a debt to myself, as if someone stood instead of me and defended us, the territorial integrity, the sovereignty of ukraine. her