Three years ago, she lost her husband during the war in the east of the country, the ballerina joins the Ukrainian army

Lesia Vorotnyuk previously worked at Kyiv’s National Opera House before she began helping civilians evacuate the Ukrainian capital as Russian invaders approached the region, according to Sky News.

Ms Vorotnyuk, whose husband died in the war in eastern Ukraine three years ago, later joined the territorial defense unit in Kiev.

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