i'm so used to it how did it happen that a respected public figure is the director of the ternopil higher school of restaurant business and commerce, mother of three children, and began to lead a battalion here almost at zero in the very hell when the war started in 2014, my eldest son, who was 18 years old at the time, came to me and said, we always talked with you about ukraine above all in our life i say well, of course well, i decided that i had to go to the volunteer battalion to defend our ukraine and after swallowing all my mother's fears and worries, i helped him to gather himself and he went to dobrobaty and i understand that i also cannot not take any part and began volunteering to help their newly created unit, so mother followed her son to the army with leadership qualities and experience of working in managerial positions. from the 14th year, she gradually turned from an ordinary volunteer into a real commander. she signed a contract with the armed forces of ukraine. the times when a combatant died in battle, it was maria who led the entire unit, you fell on her shoulders after the