Hanna

**Hanna "Tigrulya"** **Kovalchuk** is a member of a the 3rd Assault Brigade, a former TDF unit created by Azov veterans in the beginning of 2022. She was created by the Ukrainian artist @Linyvets.

## Personality

Hanna can be the best described as a goofball memelord when she is around friends and acquintances, but in the professional setting she is the exact opposite. She is also strong-willed, but not hot-headed.

Hanna is a very loyal friend that will do anything for people she loves. While she doesn't have many friends, her bond with them is strong.

She tends to go on philosophical tangents about the self, human nature and such. She enjoys goth aesthetics, participates in the biker culture, and used to play in an indie rock band.

During the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, she abandoned music and joined the Territorial Defense Forces. In late 2022, she signed a contract with the military

## Trivia

* She has a mechanical arm.
* She is from Olevsk, Zhytomyr oblast.
* Her body type is somewhat of a stout build.
* She has a tiger stripe tattoo on her neck and shoulder.
* Prewar she was a biker and a backup guitarist for an indie rock band in Kyiv.
* She is acquinted with Kraken due to the relation of their units to Azov veterans. She is a close friend of Marichka.
* She wears what appears to be a wedding ring, but when questioned about it, she usually hides her hand in a pocket and changes the topic.
* Her family are civil servants of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, but they didn't object to her choice to follow the path of music and later join the regular army.
* In her free time, she likes to drive her motorcycle around and imagine she is a modern day cossack.
* Her callname "Tigrulya" is a throwback on a meme of a Ukrainian poltician that advertised herself as Tiger Yulia in 2010.
* Her indie band used to perform to the protesters of the Revolution of Dignity in 2014. Hanna was 17 back then.
* She shares her author with Emilia & Ahapa.

## Injury

Somewhere in the counteroffensive in the summer of 2022, Hanna's unit came under attack. She saw an armored personnel carrier on fire and rushed to help to get people out of the burning vehicle. Unfortunately, she never reached it, as another explosion knocked her off her feet. She remembers a splash of light, followed by total darkness. When she came to her senses, she realized her arm hadbeen shattered and her legs were broken.

For what seemed like an eternity, she laid there expecting to bleed out. When she realized this wouldn't happen as quickly as she thought it would, she pulled out a turnstile. Later Hanna was evacuated to safety by her brothers-in-arms & Marichka. This was their first meeting.

While she was being evacuated, she insisted on being left behind to prioritize the safety of others, but everyone refused.

Hanna was at her lowest point after this experience and another personal tragedy that came into her life earlier. She didn't want to live her life as an amputee and even considered blowing herself up with a grenade. However, the sense of guilt for killing herself after so many people risked their lives to save her made her reconsider. Since then, she grew closer to Marichka.

## Gallery

Reference sheetReference sheetHanna by @LinyvetsHanna & Marichka by @LinyvetsHanna & Marichka by @LinyvetsHanna by @LinyvetsHanna with Eva & Marichka by @LinyvetsHanna in 2013, 2019 & 2022
## External Links

@Linyvets - author's Telegram

@Linyvets - author's Twitter