Ukrainian journalist and soldier Alla Pushkarchuk, call sign “Ruta,” was killed in action in Donetsk Oblast on April 25. Her death was reported by her former colleague, Dmytro Krapyvenko, a soldier and chief editor of the Ukrainian news outlet the Weekly. Krapyvenko said that Pushkarchuk was hired at the Weekly in 2018. She was already a veteran at that time, having joined the Armed Forces in 2014. At the Weekly, Pushkarchuk grew from a news reporter to a cultural columnist. Pushkarchuk also worked for the publication Chytomo, where she coordinated the Empty Chair People project, focused on au…