Women at war

How Ukraine’s Women Veterans Movement works

For many centuries, women were often restricted to a few roles in the military or completely barred from joining the armed forces, as it was deemed “a man’s duty”. However, modern societies are increasingly rejecting these beliefs. In Ukraine, the...

Returning from the front to teach life with a prosthesis

Ruslana Danilkina is a veteran whose own experience with injury and prosthetics helped her discover new calling in rehabilitating soldiers. Now, the veteran assists injured servicemen in adaptation to life with prostheses, demonstrating through her own example that an active...

Conversations over borshch. Stories of Ukrainian Women in Sweden

What is it like to leave for the unknown with hastily packed bags and explosions sounding all around? What do Ukrainian women with children experience after fleeing to unfamiliar environments abroad? Nataliia Fadieieva and her friends set out to investigate...

Strong women of the Ukrainian East

Today, many women defend Ukraine. Some of them protect the front. Since the beginning of the Russian invasion, about 6 000 women joined the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and as of July, their number...

How doctors save lives during the war

Despite Russian propagandists’ cynical denials, the Russian military is systematically shelling Ukrainian hospitals. Over the past two months of full-scale war, more than three hundred medical facilities have been damaged. But even in such difficult conditions, hospitals continue to operate;...

With or without weapons. Ukrainian women defend their country

As of December 2021, when the Russian/Ukrainian war was already going on, but the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation against Ukraine had not yet begun, 57,000 women served in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, almost 22% of the Armed...

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