On the night of October 1, we learned that our comrade Hayka had been killed during an artillery strike. She was 33 years old.
An anarchist, feminist, vegan, educator, marine, our dear comrade and friend. She was an embodiment of inspiration and resistance: sincere, stubborn, full of life.
“I felt that I would keep hammering away at this rock, and eventually it would bring results.”
Hayka’s experience has been documented in many interviews, lectures, and conversations. In June, at the birthday event of Solidarity Collectives, she spoke together with other anti-authoritarians about her experience in the army: sexism, housing problems, veganism, logistics, and everyday life in military service. She was never afraid to challenge the system, and through her own example she supported and encouraged other comrades who wanted to join the Armed Forces.
Her activist path ran through a wide range of anti-authoritarian projects and initiatives in Kharkiv, Odesa, Kyiv, Lviv, and beyond the cities. She gave lectures, wrote articles and fairy tales, was involved in self-publishing, practiced freeganism, and researched landfills and the lives of people around them. Ivanka travelled a lot and lived through activism. At the beginning of the full-scale invasion, she worked on humanitarian projects, helping women and children from frontline areas, and later joined the armed resistance herself.
Hayka carved out her own path as a marine through prejudice and the sexist barriers of the military system, eventually serving alongside her comrades as an equal on difficult combat missions.
Hayka, we will miss you deeply.
Our sincere condolences to her loved ones, friends, comrades, and fellow soldiers.
We will share information about the farewell as soon as we know more. The date of the funeral is not yet known.
Originally published on the website of Solidarity Collectives.
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