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653:[Daughter of veteran Mykola Mykytenko, who committed self-immolation on the Independence Square: "The decision to withdraw the troops was taken painfully by my father. The Svitlodar frontline, where my husband died, also was a part of this"] (in Ukrainian). Censor.net.
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administration, which he considered to be leading the country into capitulation. Three days later, on 14 October, he died of his burns. Thus, because of the war, she lost both her husband and her father.
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Mykytenko leads the "Female veterans movement" column at the unofficial ("volunteer") military parade for the
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