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'She-wolf' is first female Russian officer killed in Ukraine

Olga Kachura used to boast about her love for killing enemies

05 August, 18:56
(ANSA) - TRIESTE, 05 AGO - She was nicknamed the 'she-wolf' due to her boasting of her love for killing her enemies. Olga Kachura, a 52-years-old lieutenant colonel, was killed in an air strike in Donbass; she has thus become the first female officer of the Russian army to die in Ukraine. Her car was hit by a rocket in the city of Horlivka, in the Donetsk region.

Kachura, a mother of two, was a detective in the Ukrainian Police force, where she attained the rank of lieutenant colonel.

She was set for a high-profile career, before deserting her comrades to join the pro-Russian forces of Donbass during the 2014 uprising in the region.

In the Ukraine war, she was given command of a division of rocket artillery counting 140 men. The division bombed civilians in Donetsk. Kachura was wounded in the field several times.

According to Ukrainian sources, she wore Ukrainian fatigues while performing war crimes and bring disrepute to the enemy.

Last year she was sentenced in absentia by a Kiev tribunal to 12 years in prison for terrorism.

Since news of her death broke, several pictures of the colonel have been circulating online. Blonde and blue eyed, smiling, she is portrayed wearing her military fatigues and in civilian clothing.

Kachura was given posthumously the title of 'Russian hero' (the highest honour the Cremlin bestows "for the courage and heroism shown in performing her military duty"). She is the 97th officer to die in the Ukraine conflict. The first female Russian soldier was killed in July: corporal Anastasia Savitskaya, 35-years-old, was married and a mother of two. She was called "a true hero", and was buried on 13th July in the town where she was born, Volgograd, in South-West Russia. (ANSA).

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