Botanist
Volodymyr "Botonist" Halashchuk: From Hlevakha, Volodymyr was selling computer equipment in Kyiv when his brother was conscripted by the Ukrainian Armed Forces to fight in the war. Not wanting his brother to go alone, he called the troop commissioner and volunteered for his own conscription to serve alongside of him, despite Ukraine’s law that prevents drafting two brothers from the same family into war. By autumn 2014 they were deployed East with the 128th Infantry Brigade where they fought in some of the heaviest conflict, including the battle of Debaltseve. Today Volodymyr works assisting veteran rehabilitation in Kyiv, including with the 7333 suicide prevention lifeline.