The devastating story of the “Mother Heroine”: Ukrainian doctor dies in combat and leaves her 12 children orphans after fighting in the invasion of her country

The doctor, who has the honorary title of “Heroine Mother”, served in the army since 2014 and was killed on the border between the Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia oblasts on March 3 during the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

The 48-year-old mother of six, but had also adopted six more children from a local orphanage, lived in the town of Marhanets, which was about 150 miles from where she died in early March.

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Mother of 12 children dies fighting in the Russia-Ukraine conflict

Olga Semidyanova was fatally wounded during a shootout in the city near Donetsk in southern Ukraine and the woman reportedly continued to fight after much of her unit was killed, the Daily Mail reported.

According to her relatives, she was killed with a shot to the stomach, but her body had not yet been recovered at that time, due to the continuous fighting in the area that left her family -and hundreds more- in anguish.

One of his daughters, named Julia, told the Sun: “She saved the soldiers to the end. We have photos of the place of death, but due to the heavy fighting we still cannot bury my mother.”

Olga Semidyanova was quite a “Mother heroine”

The title of “Heroine Mother” is given to women who have more than five children. After her death, tributes soon arrived, led by members of the Ukrainian government.

Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser to the country’s Interior Ministry, told the British daily: “She was killed in a clash with Russian thugs. Even when she believed that her regiment might not survive, he emphasized her desire to protect the country to the end. She is a national heroine. She is a hero to me.”

In social networks, netizens also expressed messages of support for his family and were dismayed by what had happened. (I)