MARIUPOL, Ukraine — As Russian-launched rockets hit a market in Mariupol on Jan. 24. killing 30 civilians and wounding more than 100 others, Viktoria Kovach rushed to tend to the injured, risking her own life. Kovach, a volunteer combat medic, left medical school to embed with Ukraine’s Azov Battalion as their chief combat medic.

For the last six months, she has tended to their bullet and shrapnel wounds, going wherever they went. “Combat medics are not immune to the brutality of war, but I will do whatever it takes to take care of the boys who are fighting for a free Ukraine,” she says.