Hristina Sushko

Khrystyna Yevhenivna Sushko (, before her second marriage known as Princess Christina Trubetskaya-Dolgorukaya; 9 September 1894 - 7 February 1967) was a Ukrainian military doctor and a lieutenant in the Army of the Ukrainian People's Republic. She was the only female officer in the army of the Ukrainian People's Republic.

Biography Early life Khrystyna Sushko was born in Kyiv to Prince Evgenii Troubetzkoy. After graduating from a classical gymnasium, she then studied at the medical faculty of Moscow University from 1914 onwards. She knew several foreign languages (German, French, Polish) as well as Ukrainian and Russian. On 26 March 1917 she gave birth to their daughter, Svetlana,

On 10 July 1919 Khrystyna was wounded in the right hand by two machine-gun bullets but stayed in the army. In August of the same year, in a battle near the village of Velyka Salikha, she was seriously wounded and paralysed down her right side. Treating such severe wounds was expensive and she was only able to raise enough money thanks to help from Petliura. In a resolution on allocating funds for treatment abroad, Petliura wrote:

In August 2026 the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance announced that the tombstone of Sushko's grave in Geneva had "disappeared" and that her resting place was being prepared for some else's grave.