This week, the Associated Press featured the story of Olha Dembitska, a Ukrainian woman living in Czechia, who has been monitoring the ongoing horror show in her home country and has decided that she will probably have to do something about it. She’s been receiving updates over social media from a girlfriend of hers in Kherson, where Russian troops have been abducting, raping, and killing the local women. It’s all become too much for her. Now she’s been taking free shooting lessons that the Czechs are offering to any Ukrainians who may wish to return home and fight for their nation. Olha had never touched a firearm before this and her first efforts at firing an AK-47 at a paper target didn’t go well. But she’s getting better at it.

Of the first four shots Olha Dembitska fired from an AK-47 assault rifle in her life, one hit the target. “It’s pretty difficult the first time,” the 22-year-old Ukrainian woman acknowledged.

On this occasion, the target was the shape of a human body at a shooting range in the Czech Republic. Next time, it might be for real, in Ukraine, and the target could be one of the Russian troops who have invaded her homeland.