UKRAINE, DONETSK OBLAST, Nov. 21 — Russian forces killed Maryna Vorontsova, callsign Laherta, during her service as a combat medic near Pokrovsk as a soldier of a special unit called Peaky Blinders.

Peaky Blinders is a part of the Omega special operations unit of Ukraine’s National Guard. They have conducted combat operations in the Kharkiv region and, since October 2024, near Pokrovsk in the Donetsk region.

Vorontsova has been a volunteer since 2014 and helped the military with technical equipment.

In her last year of life, she served in the Peaky Blinders unit and received a special chevron for numerous combat achievements.

“Now she has become a guardian angel for each of us,” said the Peaky Blinders unit.

On Oct. 3, a Russian FPV drone killed French photojournalist Antoni Lallican and injured Ukrainian photographer Heorgiy Ivanchenko.

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