Andrii Vysotskyi is a veteran and volunteer from the Zhytomyr region.  It all began with the Maidan — he was carrying out the wounded during the shootings. He served on the frontline and was discharged due to disability. He is the deputy head of the Pulyny Regional Union of ATO Veterans — a community that not only unites comrades-in-arms, but also supports the families of service members, organizes assistance for the frontline, and creates memorial initiatives and places of remembrance.

After returning from Donbas, Andrii created a museum of combatants in Pulyny. The collection was assembled by hand: fragments, a drone, items from the frontline. In the first days of the full-scale invasion, he organized the community’s self-defense, detained saboteurs, set up checkpoints.

He is still volunteering — overseeing several units, delivering aid, staying in contact with the soldiers, collecting and providing what is needed. He says:  volunteers are “like spiders,” holding the country on an invisible web of support.

He speaks about the hardest things: returning from the frontline, physical and emotional wounds.  And also about the lack of sufficient psychological support.

The story of Andrii Vysotskyi is about how the war does not end when weapons are laid down. It continues in supporting those who fight, in veterans’ communities. Its memory is preserved in every fragment, in every name, and in the quiet rooms of rural museums.