Sandra Andersen Eira

Sandra Andersen Eira (born 21 June 1986) is a fisherwoman and Norwegian Sámi politician from Russenes in Porsanger Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. As of 2023, she is serving as a medic and an enlistee in the Ukraine Marine Corps of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

From 2017 to 2021, she served as a member of the Sámi Parliament of Norway (Sametinget), elected to the Norwegian Sámi Association from the Ávjovárri constituency.

Following the end of her term in the Sametinget, she spent a year commuting between the United States and Norway, including expanding her fishing business and being featured in a documentary titled Sea Sisters. During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, she joined a mixed-British and American ranger squad; she worked as a medic on the squad. As of December 2022, she was still fighting for Ukraine; she has been back to Norway [at least] once, for a few days, to attend a plenary session of the Sámi Parliament of Norway.

Andersen Eira took part, along with her unit, in the battle of Moshchun, near Kyiv and on the frontline in Mykolaiv in March 2022 and was later deployed to Bakhmut, in the Donbas, for a brief period. In 2024, Russia issued an arrest warrant against her on charges of being a "mercenary".