[2] Dmyterko left her family in the village of Pidberizka with only the support of her father, as her mother and grandmother disapproved of her fighting.

[4] During her six years of service, she prepared food for the riflemen and cared for them as a nurse before being assigned to the command headquarters, where she worked as a clerk.

[4] Dmyterko was known in her lifetime as a Ukrainian heroine together with Sofia Galechko, Olena Stepaniv, and Olha Pidvysotska.

[4] One of her sons, Volodar Ratych, died in World War II, but Rostislav, Lubomyr and Bohdan survived.

Her memoirs[7] are second only to those of Olena Stepaniv as a source for those studying Ukrainian women's experiences in World War I.