Ukrainian women are showing the world what they're made of in the fight against Russia

[CaptainTruth]

Ukrainian women are showing the world what they’re made of in the fight against Russia

It was not so long ago that women in Ukraine were fighting for equal rights in the military. Now, women throughout the country are proving themselves a critical part of the battle against Russia.

According to CNN, 15% of the soldiers currently fighting Russia are women. Some are not officially members of the military, CNN’s Christina Macfarlane said, but have taken “crash courses” in things like how to shoot a firearm.

Kira Rudik, a Ukrainian Parliament member who decided to remain in Kyiv, told Macfarlane it’s a privilege that women have the choice to support the Ukrainian military and are not being told to leave with their children. “We are fighting right now by our own choice,” she said, adding that she believes the numbers are higher in terms of how many women are serving. While 15% of the soldiers may be women, there are even more women fighting in resistance groups.

[link:https://taskandpurpose.com/news/ukraine-women-military/|]

[Maraya1969]

1. My mom's family was from Eastern Europe and I remember reading about Slovakian women

and how they are strong. Apparently because of having to withstand the harsh climate and life.

I also remember her telling me "We are of good stock" and how the women in my family at least we actually very strong physically; including me.

[NutmegYankee]

2. Look up out Milunka Savić, most-decorated female combatant in recorded history.

She was Serbian and fought in the Balkan Wars and WWI.

[Maraya1969]

3. That's interesting. My mom was not sure of exactly where her grandmother and great - grandmother

were from but when she was somewhere over there she went into a Serbian home and she said it felt like her grandmother's home. I pressed her on it, like was it the decorations or what and she just said, "It felt like home" Her grandmother died young in a bus crash so there was a lot of information that we just didn't get.

[AverageOldGuy]

4. It's about girls with guns . . .

. . . one of the Heroes of the Soviet Union to emerge from WW II was a female Russian sniper, credited with killing 309 Germans -- Lyudmila Mikhailovna Pavlichenko

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyudmila_Pavlichenko