A Ukrainian mum-of-three has decided to leave her kids at home to join the fight against Russia.
Dr Marta Yuzkic said she was “packing to leave my house to get ready to start serving”.
Talking to A Current Affair host Tracy Grimshaw, the mum, who lives in Kyiv, said she had decided to fight.
She also said that she was not worried about leaving her kids behind.
This comes as the Russian army has swept across Ukraine and reached the outskirts of Kyiv Oblast in just one day.
“They will just know how to survive,” she said.
Talking to the Australian show, she said: “I'm now packing to leave my house to get ready to start serving.
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"I am a doctor and a mum and now I need to leave my kids here at home together with cats, dogs … I need to go.
"I won't allow them (Russia) to take our land and our freedom.
"We have to defend, and we will win."
"I'm going where our commanders send us to ... and we will wait for orders from commanders.
"I'm going into the Ukrainian Army as a reservist and I'm in territorial defence."
She began taking basic training last April, and took additional courses for guns and “some tactical medicine training”.
However, even as she intends to leave her children and pets behind with no weapons or training, the fighting seems intent on coming to her sooner than she thinks.
In the space of less than a day, the Russian invasion has already swept right up to the Kyiv Oblast region - the region surrounding Ukraine’s capital city.
So it is likely that if Dr Yuzkic intends to fight she may be doing so far sooner than she originally intended, and might be doing so from her local neighbourhood if Russia breach the city.
Speaking further on the show, she added: "The war will depend on weapons that Russia will use, but definitely we are not going to give up, we are going to resist.
"We have the exact right to defend our land.
"I'm really nervous, actually, because you still couldn't believe you are still here.
"And you understand that your city is now under attack.
"It's unbelievable - 21st century - we are living in the middle of Europe somewhere and we are attacked.
"We will resist until the last Russian soldiers will leave Ukraine.” She said.
The invasion was first announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin in the early hours of this morning.
Kyiv, known in Russia as the ‘mother of Russian cities’, has been under constant missile fire since and thousands have tried to flee the city.
Videos from inside, show roads and motorways choked up with traffic as many tried to get out ahead of the oncoming Russian army.
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