Is Ukraine’s wartime economy becoming female-led? The numbers say yes (INFOGRAPHIC)
The gender transformation since 2021 reflects necessity, not optimism.
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Russian missile with 400 kg explosive mass was flying 1,000 km to kill — but met Ukrainian kindergarten teacher
Nataliia Hrabarchuk once soothed children to sleep. Now she stalks the skies with a Soviet Igla launcher.
Twenty percent of Ukraine’s candidates who came to recruitment centers are women
With women comprising 20% of new candidates and playing critical roles in areas like combat medicine, UAV operations, and cybersecurity, the initiative highlights a unified effort to bolster the country's military.
Over 60,000 Ukrainian women are defending their country – Ukraine’s Defense Ministry
Since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the number of Ukrainian women…
Some 5,000 Ukrainian women serving in combat roles, 101 were killed in action during all-out war – Defense Minister
In the course of Russia's full-scale invasion, 101 Ukrainian servicewomen were killed in action, and 50 others are…
Ukrainian women playing expanded role as soldiers fighting Russian aggression
Ukrainian women have a long tradition of fighting for their people. Not only was that sanctioned by Cossack…
Hanna from the forests of Volyn: life & death in Ravensbrück KZ
And yet: we will return we will definitely return at least – with our feet forward but: not…
In Memoriam. An eternal guelder rose on the grave of Dariya “Oda” Lebed, survivor of Ravensbrück KZ
“Shadows billow over me” Vasyl Stus Dariya’s elderly mother, Oleksandra Hnatkivska, stood in the row of prisoners during…
Ravensbrück concentration camp hospital – factory of death
In July and August 1944, barrack no.12 was filled with women prisoners from Ukraine - hundreds of exhausted…
Roll call in Ravensbrück concentration camp for women
The night was coming to an end. Four a.m… and not enough sleep. Dozia (Teodoziya) Hayvas and I…
Ukrainian women in Nazi prisons & concentration camps
The year was 1943… Almost every inhabitant of Ukraine knew that Hitler’s Third Reich was losing the war.…
Meet One of the Female Soldiers Fighting in Eastern Ukraine
Ukrainian servicewoman with the call sign “Manul” (translates to ‘wild cat’) only served in the army for several months…
20 Prominent Ukrainian Women
Ada Rohovtseva (1937- ) Famous theatre and cinema actress, People’s Artist of Ukraine, professor at the National…