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Let's be honest: what is it really like to be a woman in the military?
Nadia Garan — sergeant of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, simultaneous translator, liaison officer. In this author essay, Nadia shares her vision of what women are missing in the military. About career growth, support, uniform and personal medicine - read a real view of things from the Ukrainian military.
What do you feminists still lack in the army?!
After the news about the military registration of women and the regulation of men's emigration abroad, in the swamps you can only hear that "feminists should fight[...]
11.11.2022
After our victory, our veterans will return home. It is our civic duty to provide them with decent conditions for rehabilitation and reintegration into civilian life. It is time to launch programs that take care of our veterans, both men and women.
To this end, our veteran, a member of the Women's Veteran Movement Board, coordinator of the social department of the Movement, Yulia Kirillova, together with a delegation from the Ukrainian Veterans Fund, visited Washington.
Read more about the gratitude of ordinary passersby, what it is like to be abroad during a war, and how much work we[...]
09.11.2022
Stas Bitus is a clothing designer, now also known as a designer of women's military uniforms from the Women's Veterans Movement. Why Stas started sewing clothes for the military, how he met our paramedic Kuba and how fashion design differs from military design - read more in our interview.
Tell us about yourself and your experience.
I‘m Bitus Stanislav Antonovych, graduated from Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts,have an university degree of "Clothing Designer". From the third year, I did an internship, and then I worked part-time at a well-known Ukrainian brand,[...]
02.11.2022
When I meet new people, I typically introduce myself as a housewife. I do this partly as a form of rebellion against the unfair stigma that is often associated with this term. At the same time, my decision to stay at home was primarily due to family circumstances. Over a period of three years, someone close to me became seriously ill and we tried everything we could to save her. Unfortunately, we were not successful, and afterward, we focused on preserving her creative legacy. And just when I returned to Kyiv with my husband — literally two months! — the full-scale invasion started. I[...]
19.10.2022
Gena Tytov has been at the headquarters of the Ukrainian Women Veteran Movement practically since the beginning of the full-scale invasion. In peaceful times, he is a sculptor, an artist, and, in his own words, "a bit of a writer." Read more about art during the war, victory and volunteering in this interview.
How has your life changed after February 24, 2022?
I used to work as a sculpting and drawing teacher at a school. After the full-scale invasion started, I had no students left because they were all evacuated. As an artist, I did not want to create at that moment. There was no[...]
24.09.2022
Nadiia Haran is a servicewoman, a simultaneous interpreter, a signaller.Tell me about yourself, how did your military career begin?
University, Maidan, war. My parents pressured me to finish university, but I kept skipping philosophy department classes, spending time in the East instead attending charity events, working with children, and so on. Then I started taking delegations of foreign government agencies there as a translator. I studied at a university in America and still partially speak and think in English. It would take a very long time to officially register foreigners for a[...]
22.09.2022
At peaceful times Dina was a project manager at a design company and taught languages. Now she is helping WVM with the management of internal projects and SMM. Read further about her personal insights, motivation and plans.On the story of the acquaintance with WVMI have known about WVM for a long time, since 2020, when I got interested in women's issues in the context of feminism. I read documents, reports, and studies on this topic. Then I found WVM and started watching their interviews and videos. I wanted to get involved, but I wasn't sure how to do it without being a veteran or a[...]
17.09.2022
At the age of 20, Natalya Borysovska, who is now the commander of the Field communication node branch, signed her first contract with the Armed Forces of Ukraine. It was in 2009. Now she has once again come to the defense of our state.
Read more about her thoughts on the Ukrainian-Russian war in our interview.
Tell your story: how did you connect your life with military service, what is your experience, what is your main motivation?
The story is not very epic, to be honest. It's just that back in 2009, while re-watching the military film "Stormy Gate", I wanted to find myself[...]
14.09.2022
Alona is the first person you will see when entering the headquarters. Her workplace is at the reception of the Women Veterans Movement. She is the one who first responds to requests for assistance and works with their organization. She dreamed of becoming a volunteer, and for almost two months, she has been a member of our team.
Next is a first-person narrative.
About the first steps in volunteering
I had no experience in volunteering before the war, but I really wanted to help. At the beginning of the war, my daughter and I went to the Carpathians to look for some headquarters and[...]
10.09.2022
Maya Moskvych is an activist, a participant of the Revolution of Dignity, a veteran of the Russian-Ukrainian war and an active service woman, currently serving as a senior soldier in the Second Separate Rifle battalion.
She is the first woman to join Ukrainian National team in the international competitions Invictus Games, as well as gold medalist in both bullseye shooting and archery at the 2022 Warrior Games, which is veterans and servicemen competitions hosted in the USA.
She is the founder of the Archers Birds shooting club and the Lutsk archery federation.
Everyone[...]
07.09.2022