Valentyna Pushych, a Ukrainian paramedic, who was shot while on her way to evacuate injured people from the outskirts of Kyiv was buried in the country’s capital on Saturday, March 5, 2022.

Pushych was known locally as “Romashka,” which in Ukranian means “Daisy.”

A friend described her as a “daredevil,” who was never afraid to “get under bullets.’ She was always “running to the most dangerous places” to rescue the injured, Nataliia Voronkova said.

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Pushych used to be a worker at a transport and logistic company.

In 2016, she joined the Ukranian army as a paramedic in response to the separatist conflict in eastern Ukraine.

Several women, including some dressed in camouflage jackets, cried as her body lay in a casket at a service. A portrait of Pushych was on a wall nearby. Red roses were placed on Pushych’s body at the cemetary on Saturday. The dirt burial was then covered with the flag of Ukraine.

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