[3] When her boyfriend Andriy Kurovets died, she decided to join the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen.

[3] She and Pavlyna Mychailyshyn joined to fight for the Austro-Hungarians against Russia because they hoped that the war would lead to independence for the Ukrainian people.

This was not because of a lack of volunteers but because they were concerned that they would be creating an independent army loyal to a Ukrainian nationalist cause.

[6] Hanna Dmyterko, Pavlyna Mychailyshyn, Iryna Kus, Sofia Halechko, Olha Basarab, and Olena Stepaniv are among those noted as being in the regiment.

[8] Halechko and Pavlyna Mychailyshyn were assigned relatively safer posts to reduce the possibility of them being captured by the Russians.