Maria Berlinska went from the Maidan protests to the Donbas frontline flying reconnaissance drones, then turned that into a national program training thousands of Ukrainians in aerial warfare - first in her free school, then through Victory Drones after the 2022 invasion.
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Berlinska on Channel 9 Dnieper in 2016
Andriana Susak-Arekhta, featured in Invisible Battalion, co-founder of the Women's Veteran Movement, in 2021
Berlinska was a 2018 guest of Voice of America about the Invisible Battalion
Berlinska speaks with Voice of America about IREX support for veteran reintegration in 2021On YouTube
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Born in 1988, Berlinska joined the Revolution of Dignity in 2014 and volunteered for the war in Donbas as a drone operator. When she came back she opened a free school to teach aerial reconnaissance to military personnel and volunteers. Starting in 2015 she co-founded the Women's Veteran Movement and coordinated the Invisible Battalion - three reports on recognition, reintegration, and harassment of military women - plus two films on veterans. That work led to a series of laws granting women equality in Ukraine's armed forces. After Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022, she founded Victory Drones, one of Ukraine's largest drone education projects, and later Victory Neurones, focused on cognitive warfare capabilities.
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