Dima-Babay
Dmytro "Dima" Lavrenchuk, "Babay": Dima was working in marketing and digital advertising in Kyiv when the first students were beaten during Maidan. He then became actively involved in the revolution and following the Crimea annexation, joined the Aydar Volunteer Battalion, traveling East by bus where he fought as a combatant, liberating and defending Ukrainian towns in the Luhansk region. He was wounded in action and sustained life-threatening injuries from a grenade launcher shelling. Dima is now a student in Kyiv, pursuing degrees in public administration and law to combat government corruption.