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At 16, Savchenko was already determined to become a pilot. She joined the Ukrainian Army, working as a radio operator with the country's railway forces before training as a paratrooper. [26] At the time she was the only female Ukrainian soldier in Iraq as part of the (2004–2008) Ukrainian peacekeeping troops.
Prior to the Russo-Ukrainian War, Ukraine's involvement in the Iraq War was the largest military operation ever performed by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Over 6,000 Ukrainians performed military service in Iraq and Kuwait during the war, including a permanent presence of 1,600, and 18 Ukrainians were killed.
LaVena Lynn Johnson (July 27, 1985 – July 19, 2005) was a soldier in the United States Army who was found dead in a tent in Iraq. Her death was controversially ruled as a suicide but the evidence of rape and battery led her family to believe the United States Department of Defense covered it up.
According to a 2010 assessment by John Sloboda, director of Iraq Body Count, 150,000 people including 122,000 civilians were killed in the Iraq War with U.S. and Coalition forces responsible for at least 22,668 insurgents as well as 13,807 civilians, with the rest of the civilians killed by insurgents, militias, or terrorists.
On the Ukrainian side, women were strongly moved by Ukrainian nationalism, while their pro-Russian counterpart fought for more personal reasons, like defending their families or homes. According to these authors, Ukrainian female soldiers actively chose "to go to the front. Those on the separatist side feel that the front came to them". [28]
This category generally relates to woman in the Ukrainian military since Ukrainian independence of 1991. Articles on Ukrainian woman who fought in the Soviet, Russian or other military should be assigned/can be found to one of the categories listed under "See also" below. See also: Category:Women in the Russian and Soviet military
Yulia Mykolaivna Mykytenko (Ukrainian: Юлія Миколаївна Микитенко, born 18 July 1995) [1] is a military servicewoman of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, combatant of the Russo-Ukrainian War, recipient of the Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky (3rd class) [2] and the Order for Courage (3rd class), [3] activist of the сivic movement "Vidsich" and of the NGO "Female veterans movement".
1 June: Sophia Bruun is killed on 1 June 2010 while on duty in Afghanistan; this makes her the first Danish woman soldier ever to be killed in action. [92] [93] 18 July: A Taliban leader calls for the deaths of Afghan women training to join the Afghan military. [94] [95] [96]