Victoria Honcharuk, 23 years old

Accepted to #Harvard University in 2022

Declined the offer

Became a combat medic on the frontlines in #Ukraine in 2022 instead

#UkraineWar

Victoria Honcharuk

From being accepted to Harvard, declining it, and choosing to go to the frontlines of the #UkraineWar instead as a medic

https://foreignpress.org/journalism-resources/frontline-hero-a-combat-medics-battle-to-save-lives-and-limbs

https://www.instagram.com/victoria__honcharuk/

Frontline Hero: A Combat Medic's Battle to Save Lives and Limbs โ€” FOREIGN PRESS

Mitzi Perdue shares the story of Viktoriia Honcharuk, who is fighting for her country's right to exist.

FOREIGN PRESS
@selzero so many lives warped, degraded, destroyed. for the imperialist ethnofascist hatred of some oligarch ghouls
@benroyce my dyslexic brain keeps reading your tag as "Beyonce"
@selzero @benroyce wow, Beyoncรฉ sure is into a lot of USpol on Masto!
@benroyce I hope that when she applies to Harvard again and adds combat medic duty to her bio, they immediately accept her.
@benroyce
The Ukrainian People are just amazing.
We must support them in every way possible.
Slava Ukraini ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ

@benroyce

Wow. The balls on that one must make walking normally difficult.

@benroyce All the very best to Victoria! May her dreams come true!
@benroyce it does not sound like turning down the Harvard offer was a choice... Maybe the full interview explains better?

@alberto_cottica

there are a few news reports, i posted one and her instagram

you do think "is this too good to be true?" i was wary of that

i found her linkedin

https://www.linkedin.com/in/viktoriia-honcharuk-6924a6150/

my feeling is: i can't find anything contrary to the "accepted to harvard" bit, so i'm posting it. i don't know how to confirm that. she talks about it across a number of news items. i am taking her at her word

but maybe, for example, she was pressured by her family, something like that

still extraordinary