They called her 'Lady Death' because she bragged about how much fun she enjoyed taking out opponents.
Lieutenant Colonel Olga Kachura, 52, was killed in a raid in Donbass making her the first Russian army officer to die in Ukraine: she was hit by a missile while in her car in the city of Horlivka. in the Donetsk region.
Kachura, a mother of two, was an investigator in the Ukrainian Police Department where she had reached the rank of lieutenant colonel and had a career underway, but she defected by 'betraying' her comrades to switch with the pro-Russian Donbass during the riot in the region in 2014. In the war in Ukraine, she was assigned command of a missile artillery division, with 140 troops, which bombed civilians in Donetsk and was wounded several times in battle.
According to her, Kiev she would also have worn the Ukrainian uniform to carry out war crimes and discredit the enemy.
Last year she was sentenced by a Kiev court to 12 years in prison in absentia on terrorism charges.
From the news of her killing, several photos of the colonel, blonde and blue-eyed, circulate on social media, in which she is seen wearing the uniform, but also in plain clothes and always smiling.
Kachura, who received the posthumous title of 'Hero of Russia' (the Kremlin's highest award "for courage and heroism in the performance of military duty"), is the 97th officer to die in the conflict in Ukraine.
In July, the first Russian female soldier was killed.
Corporal Anastasia Savitskaya, 35, married and a mother of two, described as "a true hero", was buried on July 13 in her hometown of Volgograd in southwestern Russia.