“Behind every successful man lies a dynamic woman,” is the case in Ukraine, as behind President Zelensky is a woman symbol of the country and its resistance to the invaders.
Irina Verestsuk is his deputy prime minister Zelensky and by the central figures of the war.
She announced the day before yesterday that Kyiv rejects the Russian ultimatum for the surrender of the Mariupol martyrdom, denouncing “deliberate manipulation” and “true hostage-taking”.
At every opportunity, she accuses Moscow of terrorism and war crimes, while her posts on social media concern exclusively the war in Ukraine.
But who is the woman-symbol of the Ukrainian resistance?
Irina Andriyvna Verestsuk was born on November 30, 1979 (43 years old). She is a social activist, politician and former. On November 4, 2021, Verestsuk was appointed Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine and Minister for the Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories.
He graduated from the Military School and served as an officer in the Ukrainian army for five years. Since 2016 and for three years, Irina has been the President of the International Center for Baltic and Black Sea Studies and Consensus Practices.
In 2019, Verestsuk was elected People’s Deputy of Ukraine.
Until the outbreak of the war, he practiced karate, Thai boxing, and hand-to-hand combat regularly.
Personal life
She has a son from her first marriage and an adopted son from her second husband, a veteran of the Ukrainian special forces “Alpha”.
Now, he told the newspaper La Repubblica, he sleeps only 2-3 hours a day and the rest works.
She has been living and working in a shelter in Kyiv, away from her family, since the war broke out.
“I have a 17-year-old son and I have been learning about him for days,” he said. “But at the moment I am the mother of all the children of Ukraine who need me and are in shelters.”
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