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A Ukrainian police officer with two women in Kyiv on 16 March 2022. The Russian invasion of Ukraine, that began on 24 February 2022, has had a significant impact on women across Ukraine and Russia, both as combatants and as civilians. In Ukraine, the invasion has seen a significant increase in women serving in the military as well as a ...
In a representative national poll on 3–4 March 2022, 59% of Ukrainian women said they were 'ready to personally participate in the armed resistance to end the Russian occupation of Ukraine.' [38] Though Ukraine's Ministry of Defence significantly expanded the pool of Ukrainian women who are required to register for military conscription into ...
Alla Antonova says she suffered beatings, had a plastic bag thrust over her head and endured many other threats from Russian soldiers in occupied Ukraine who wanted to know where her son-in-law ...
As of 2010, there are several women's rights groups active in Ukraine, [11] [12] [13] including Feminist Ofenzyva [14] and Ukrainian Woman's Union. [15] FEMEN, the most active women's rights group in Kyiv, was officially closed in 2013. The organization left Ukraine because the leadership feared "for their lives and freedom". [16] [17] [18]
KYIV, Ukraine — With shells raining down and Russian forces advancing, 98-year-old Lidia Stepanivna Lumikovska made the decision to leave her home in the village of Ocheretyne in eastern Ukraine ...
Women in Russia make up a rising proportion of those being detained in protests against President Vladimir Putin's mobilisation for the war in Ukraine, data show, as many Russian men fear being ...
On January 7, 2023, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Maryana Naumova was placed on Ukraine's sanctions list because she "frequently visits frontline and occupied territories of Ukraine to film propaganda stories in support of the war in accordance with Kremlin narratives" and "supports Putin's aggression and mass murder of civilians in ...
After President Vladimir Putin’s decree to mobilize Russia on Sept. 21, a secretive Russian protest group called Feminist Anti-War Resistance (FAR) instructed women to wear black and hold white ...