Among the Ukrainians who preferred the opportunity to defend their country with weapons in their hands to a parliamentary mandate, there are activists, athletes and even mothers of large families. Journalists talked about some of them for the International Women’s Day on March 8.
More than 40,000 women are serving in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, of which more than 5,000 are in active combat areas on the front line. Among the women of the military there are also those who were involved in politics before the full-scale invasion. About some of them, the portal of the Chesno movement wrote about the International Women’s Day on March 8.
Alina Mikhailova
Alina Mikhailova
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Deputy of the Kyiv City Council from the party “Voice” and paramedic Alina Mikhailova has been serving in the military since 2016. In the war zone, she met her boyfriend Dmitry Kotsyubail with the call sign “Da Vinci”, who died near Bakhmut on March 7, 2023.
Alina Mikhailova and Dmitry Kotsyubaylo
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In addition to helping the wounded soldiers, Alina Mikhailova is engaged in advocacy for issues important to the country. She fought for the decommunization and renaming of the capital’s streets, insisted on the need to preserve Lysaya Gora, and also opposed urban “reform”.
Maria Cup
Maria Cup
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The deputy commander of the “Carpathian Sich” battalion, Maria Chashka, is a deputy of the Ternopil Regional Council, director of the Ternopil School of Restaurant Business, and also the mother of three children. Previously, she held the position of head of the regional state administration apparatus.
Eight years ago, the son of Maria Cup went to war. At the moment, she also serves in the hot spots of Ukraine and acts as a deputy commander.
Maria Cup
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Tatiana Shevchenko
Tatiana Shevchenko
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Member of the 103rd Territorial Defense Brigade is the deputy of the Lviv City Council from the “European Solidarity” Tatyana Shevchenko. She is on the front line as a sanitation instructor.
Tatiana Shevchenko
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Tatyana Shevchenko went to the military registration and enlistment office on the day of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Armed Forces into Ukraine. According to her, the activities of the military and deputies have some common features, since both professions provide for serving people.
“This is a huge responsibility to the Ukrainians. And since I was a deputy, I also have a large circle of acquaintances – these are volunteers who will find the right things, friends who will always help,” Shevchenko notes.
Irina Galai
Irina Galai
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Irina Galai is a member of the Transcarpathian Regional Council. She set a record among Ukrainian women as the first woman to climb the two highest mountains in the world – Everest and K2.
Irina Galay conquered Everest and K2
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Irina Galai wanted to stand up for Ukraine back in 2014, but then she was told that people with experience were hired first. Now she is serving in the terrorist defense of Mukachevo.
Ekaterina Yamshchikova
Ekaterina Yamshchikova
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Ekaterina Yamshchikova previously served in the Poltava City Council, but now the girl is performing combat missions as part of a medical unit in the combat zone in the east of our country.
Having taken the oath in May 2023, Ekaterina Yamshchikova has already received the title of acting head of the battalion medical service during combat missions, senior medic of the evacuation crew and instructor in tactical medicine.
Ekaterina Yamshchikova with colleagues
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The authors of the article, dated March 8, note that these are far from all the names of Ukrainian women who left the civil service in order to go to the front to defend their country.
Earlier, on December 29, we also wrote that the leadership of the Special Operations Forces of Ukraine selected several girls for further participation in sniper exercises that are taking place in the western regions of Ukraine.
