Tomorrow, on 05 September, at 11.00 am, we will meet the body of the fallen combat medic, Heroine Maria Volodymyrivna Dykhtyar, at the Church of the Apostles Peter and Paul.
We ask the community to postpone all daily activities and work and come out as a large community to meet the Heroine, who for 10 years saved the lives of her comrades in the most difficult combat zones.
After that, the funeral cortege will travel to her native village of Borok, where the funeral service will begin immediately upon arrival at her parents’ home. Maria Dykhtyar will be buried in the cemetery in the village of Tartakiv.
Maria Dykhtyar died on 02 September 2024 in the line of duty in the defence of her homeland…
Marichka, Marusya, Volodymyrivna, with the call sign “Panther”
Maria Dykhtyar, a resident of Borok village and senior lieutenant of the medical service, was awarded the medal “For Saved Life”
She is one of the first women volunteers who decided to leave everything behind in civilian life and go to serve to save Ukraine’s defenders in Donbas. She was prompted to take this step by the death of her friend in the Debaltseve “cauldron”, who died because there was no medical professional nearby.
In civilian life, Maria worked as a doctor. In the first days of the Russian-Ukrainian war, Maria Dykhtyar went back to work as a military medic, and now she serves in the active combat zone, saving wounded heroes every day.