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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]
On 7 September, Serhii Balanchuk , a former football player for Dynamo Kyiv and the Ukrainian national football team, a lawyer and a soldier, was killed by Russian artillery shelling near Bakhmut. [41] On 12 September, Oleksandr Shapoval, a ballet dancer and choreographer at the National Opera of Ukraine was killed in a battle near Donetsk. [42]
According to an April 2022 survey, 69% of women intended to help by providing non-military support (delivering food, information, or ammunition) to the Ukrainian army, 65% of women were thinking of caring for injured civilians and soldiers, and 27% of women had plans to join the Ukrainian forces in various combat roles. [32]
The New York Times on Monday published at the top of its front page a photo of four Ukrainian civilians, including two children, who were killed by Russian mortar fire as they were attempting to flee.
The Russian military opened fire on civilians trying to evacuate the town of Vovchansk in the Kharkiv region, killing a woman while she was being pushed in a wheelchair by her husband, Ukrainian ...
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
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 ...
Kateryna Viktorivna Stupnytska (Ukrainian: Катерина Вікторівна Ступницька; 11 April 1996 – 8 March 2022) was a sergeant of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. She was posthumously honoured with the title Hero of Ukraine with the award of the Order of the Golden Star during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine .