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Now, I have heard everything.
We will all die anyway’ – Ukraine army adviser



December 29, 2023

The aide to Kiev’s top general has made a novel argument for mobilization

A death in battle is preferable to a car crash, Alla Martynyuk, an aide to the supreme commander of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, General Valery Zaluzhny, said in an interview on Friday.
Martynyuk, 37, is a former theatre and TV actress who currently serves as an “external adviser” to Zaluzhnyi. In a broadcast shared on social media by the Kiev-based news agency UNIAN, she argued against the reaction of most Ukrainians to getting mobilized into the military.
“I now see when someone gets a summons, the mothers immediately write [that] they are already hysterical and almost immediately say goodbye to the lives of their sons,” Martynyuk said on air. “But I will tell you, this is not right. All this hysteria is not needed. You need to believe that your son is a hero and the flower of the nation.”

“We will all die anyway. Leaving this life with dignity is much better than walking down the street and [having] a brick fall on you or a car run you over,” she added.