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women
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Defense Ministry: Number of women in Ukraine’s army up 40% in two years
It’s explained because women can now serve in positions previously off-limits, like machine gunner, sniper and infantry fighting vehicle commander; and a contract for military service risen from 40 to 60, on par with men.
17/10/2023
Ukraine must prioritize women in post-war reconstruction: opinion
As Ukraine begins the challenging process of post-war reconstruction, the need for a gender perspective cannot be ignored.…
30/05/2023
From pregnancy fatigues to lip balm: volunteers supply gear for women at war
The Russian war against Ukraine has altered many aspects of Ukrainian life, including the conventional roles of Ukrainian…
10/02/2023
“At times, they beat me so that I did not even want to live” – Ukrainian woman hostage survivor of Donbas militant prison
That terrible day Nothing foretold of trouble the morning of 14 October 2016. On that day, Haiova was…
27/01/2022
Why this 23-year old mom became a Ukrainian soldier
Nadiya started thinking about military service way back in 2014, when her city, Bakhmut, was occupied by Russian…
01/01/2022
“F*cking execute her!” Torture, forced labor, one bottle of water a day: how a Ukrainian woman hostage survived the prisons of Russia-occupied Donbas
[editorial]Maryna Chuikova, a 50 years-old Ukrainian nurse, spent over a year in the illegal prisons of the “Donetsk…
24/12/2021
Lukashenka’s riot police powerless against 10,000-strong women’s march | Photos
On Saturday, 29 August, a 10,000-strong Women’s March was held in Minsk, the capital of Belarus where protests…
30/08/2020
How International Women’s Day became a Soviet celebration of “eternal femininity”
[editorial]In Ukraine, the meaning of Women’s Day is in limbo. The Soviet celebrations of this public holiday, revolving…
09/03/2019
Women’s Day in Ukraine is seriously in limbo
[editorial]Three years after the publication of this article in 2018, on 8 March 2021, International Women’s Day was…
10/03/2018
Ukraine’s Health Ministry opens up previously banned 450 professions for women
The Ukrainian Health Ministry has abolished its order #256 banning women from being employed in 450 professions which…
21/12/2017
How I left everything and went to Donbas to make the film “War mothers”
In 2016, I was working a comfortable career in advertising in Melbourne, Australia. Things were not out of…
03/06/2017
Technovation, global IT entrepreneurship contest among schoolgirls, launched in Ukraine
Ukraine is now part of the international initiative Technovation, a contest in IT entrepreneurship for girls. Schoolgirls aged…
09/12/2016
Ukrainian women receive right to serve in combat positions
The struggles of Ukrainian women who fight at the front lines in Donbas have been heard. Revolutionary amendments…
26/06/2016
Meet Ukraine’s “Invisible battalion” of women
Brave beauty. Twelve fearless women are depicted on a Ukrainian calendar for 2016. However, they represent a much larger…
03/02/2016
Paratrooper’s widow deploys to front with his unit
Maryna Knysh has gone to war. Following in her late husband Oleksandr’s footsteps, the 27-year-old single mother deployed…
09/08/2015
Maria Lewytzkyj: Putin’s percolating misogyny oppresses Russian and Ukrainian women
Putin oppresses women in Russia and Ukraine: Prime time Russian NTV’s show “The Furies of Maidan: Sex, Psychosis…
29/09/2014