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Oksana Volodymyrivna Rubaniak (Ukrainian: Оксана Володимирівна Рубаняк; pseudo - Ksena; born 28 January 2003, Hramotne, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast) is a Ukrainian poet, writer, civic activist, servicewoman (senior soldier), machine gunner of the 72nd Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, participant of the Russian-Ukrainian war.
Biography
She graduated from the Ivano-Frankivsk College of Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University (2022, with honors, specialty - primary school teacher), the Military Department of PNU (2023), and the National Pedagogical Drahomanov University (part-time). Since 2022, she has been studying at the Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, specializing in Public Administration and Management.
She worked as an engaged specialist at the Department of Youth Policy and Sports of the Ivano-Frankivsk City Council. She organized MMA competitions among military personnel.
On 24 February 2022, she joined the ranks of the Volunteer Formation of the Ivano-Frankivsk Territorial Community No. 3, and then the Armed Forces of Ukraine. She is the only woman among the soldiers of the machine gun platoon of the 72nd separate mechanized brigade. She performed combat missions at the Vuhlehirsk thermal power plant, Zaitseve, as well as on the Bakhmut, Marianka and Vuhledar directions.
In March 2022, she was seriously injured in Vuhledar. In late June of the same year, she returned to the front.
Creative work
She is the author of the poetry collections Ornaments of Fate (2020) and Toward Death (2023).