Transgender journalist who enlisted in Ukrainian military wounded
A Russian artillery shell on Thursday wounded a transgender woman from Las Vegas who is serving in the Ukrainian military. Sarah Ashton-Cirillo told the Washington Blade that part of the artillery shell hit her in the head and right hand while her unit, the 209th Battalion of the 113th Brigade in the Donbas, was on the frontlines in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region. “I was hit this morning,” she wrote in a tweet. “My injuries are permanent.
I’ve lost part of my hand and have scarring on my face.” A video that Ashton-Cirillo posted to Twitter shows a fellow soldier bandaging her hand.
Explosions can be heard in the distance as Ashton-Cirillo speaks. “They can’t kill us. They can’t hurt us. Victory is ours. It doesn’t fucking matter.
Why? Because we’re Ukraine,” she said. “Ultimately Putin is going to be the one dead … and this is the small price for liberation and freedom.
