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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 ...
During the All-Ukrainian Forum "Women's Leadership in Time of War" in July 2023, Deputy Minister of Defence of Ukraine Hanna Maliar stated: "I am proud of Ukrainian women in the Armed Forces. Ukrainian women are super strong, and we demonstrate this to the world. They do men's hard work with excessive loads.
In its report covering the initial period of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, from 24 February to 26 March 2022, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) listed four types of risks of sexual violence: increased military presence and activities in civilian areas, the destruction of homes and infrastructure, internal displacement, and high numbers of women and ...
A historic number of women have signed up to join the fight against Russia’s advancing forces as Ukraine works to bolster its beleaguered military ranks.
“I have brothers, they are fighting now,” said Olga Skliarova, a 34-year-old resident of Ukraine's capital, Kyiv. ... almost all are women and children who left their husbands, fathers ...
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 ...
After Ukraine regained independence in 1991, a feminist movement began taking root. [9] 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 ...
Victoria Volodymyrivna Roshchyna (Ukrainian: Вікторія Володимирівна Рощина; [1] 6 October 1996 – 19 September 2024 [a]) was a Ukrainian journalist who reported on the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the Siege of Mariupol. She was a recipient of the International Women's Media Foundation's 2022 Courage in Journalism ...