Career
She writes poetry and has worked as an information security specialist after graduating from Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. The poem was written in response to the Russian occupation of Crimea in 2014. The poem celebrates the 2014 Ukrainian revolution.
lieutenant rejects the idea of an all-Russian nation, according to which Eastern Slavs should unite together against the West.
lieutenant states that Ukrainians must follow democracy, rather than remain junior brothers of the "great Russians" who are still governed by their Tzar:
The YouTube video of Dmitruk reading her poem went viral, quickly accumulating more than a million hits. A song based on the poem was created by musicians from Klaipeda.
lieutenant also quickly accumulated more than million hits. The poem was hotly debated in the press