Meet Cuba and Alaska - two best friends who've saved countless lives on Ukraine's most dangerous frontlines. Now they need your help to save even more. Your donation funds a life-saving innovation: remote-controlled evacuation pods that can rescue wounded soldiers from areas too dangerous for human medics to reach. It's technology that saves both patients and rescuers.
A Kharkiv-born Ukrainian volunteer, paramedic, member of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and fashion designer. The Revolution of Dignity in 2014 changed her life—Yuliia became a volunteer medic on the Maidan, and later one of the first members of the medical battalion “Hospitaliers.” Later, Cuba co-founded her own frontline medical unit “ULF” and served for many years in combat zones, saving lives under fire. She launched the clothing brand “Cubitus Dei”.
Ukrainian volunteer, combat medic, and illustrator. In 2014, when Russia invaded Ukraine in Donbas, Alaska was studying medicine at the Odesa University and afterwards worked as a journalist in Kyiv. During the full-scale invasion in 2022, she voluntarily joined frontline medical service within the Armed Forces of Ukraine, saving lives in combat zones. Today, Alaska continues to serve in the National Guard of Ukraine and has chosen to dedicate herself to the field of social rehabilitation.
Cuba and Alaska need your help, your donation funds a life-saving innovation: remote-controlled evacuation pods that can rescue wounded soldiers from areas too dangerous for human medics to reach.
As the devastating war continues, Ukrainian female paramedics Cuba and Alaska continue their fight and keep performing their duties with exceptional bravery on the frontline. Evacuation pods MAUL is a groundbreaking double rescue project—technology designed to save the lives of the wounded and the medics. Often, crews do not survive evacuation in the most dangerous war zone areas. When the clock is ticking, the capsule gives paramedics a chance to save other lives and survive.
Cuba and Alaska are two extraordinary women who have continued to serve as frontline paramedics since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. They evacuated the wounded under fire, worked without sleep, and made life-or-death decisions every day. Their story — captured in the documentary “Cuba & Alaska”—is” not just about war but about strength, genuine friendship, sisterhood, and survival.
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