Darka is a USF activist. She was born and raised in the city of Zhytomyr, where she graduated from the specialized lyceum, faculty of linguistics, in 2020. Since 2020, she has been a student of Zhytomyr State University “Zhytomyr Polytechnic” majoring in “Management”. At the same time, she is a student of the Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute. She joined USF in 2022 after the Leadership Program.

‘Freedom is the greatest value for every person. It is a vital need for every Ukrainian. At least once in our lives, each of us has heard something like “you are a lost generation.” Such organizations as USF gather around themselves people who do not agree with these words and are ready to prove the opposite every day. We, those who know the price of Freedom not in words, are the hope of Ukraine’s future. Once a sage was asked: “how long to wait for changes? if you wait, it will be a long time,” he answered. The USF community is not just waiting for change, we are the driving force behind change.’