After many days of a blindfolded journey back home through Russian territory and Crimea. Her husband, also a soldier, with whom she lived in Mariupol, remains in Russian captivity. "I have become tougher and stronger than I ever thought possible," Panina said, "but I learned that men cry, too, when they watch their comrades die every day." After a short period of rest and rehabilitation, she said, she decided to return to military service to do "whatever I can to bring victory closer."Back in the Ukrainian Women Veteran Movement headquarters in Kyiv, two soldiers -- a man and a woman nicknamed Monk and Bambi -- arrived from the war zone to collect supplies.
