Russia-Ukraine War

Women soldiers in Ukraine battle on front lines in Donetsk

Women soldiers, volunteer combatants staying at military assembly facility near city of Slovyansk

Davit Kachkachishvili  | 16.08.2022 - Update : 17.08.2022
Women soldiers in Ukraine battle on front lines in Donetsk

DONETSK, Ukraine 

Ukraine's women soldiers were documented on the front lines in Donetsk, a location where the most fierce confrontations with the Russian army take place.

Anadolu Agency documented women soldiers and volunteer combatants who are staying at the military assembly facility near Slovyansk in the Kramatorsk district and serving at the front.

Women, on the front lines since Russia launched a war on Ukraine on Feb. 24, have not returned to their homes in months, refusing to put down their weapons so they can carry out tasks wherever needed and under whatever circumstances as directed by their leaders.

While women fighting at the Donetsk front had long histories of military service, others chose to enlist voluntarily.

Every day, female residents of the military assembly center also assist with cooking and making tea, apart from cleaning and maintaining their weapons.


Entire family takes part in war

Svetlana, 28, who commands a battalion of the Ukrainian Armed Forces deployed at the Donetsk front, told Anadolu Agency that she has been an army officer since 2014.

Svetlana, a captain in the land forces, said she had been in the army for many years but joined the front as the war started.

"We fight shoulder to shoulder, men and women. Men can do things that women can't, and women can do things that men can't. We help each other," she said.

Svetlana also said: "I am married, my husband is also a soldier, the entire family is in the military."

Sasha, 36, said that when the war began, they resolved to go to the front right away.

"The war has started and we decided to proceed to the front, because who would have defended the country if we had not gone to the front?" he said.

Sasha highlighted that he had a 20-year-old son, who was evacuated to a safe location, and that his wife and he initially received combat training and had been at the front for months.

One does not need to be a professional soldier to defend the homeland and that courage is necessary here.

Irina, Sasha's wife, 40, also said that she had been at the front voluntarily since the beginning of the war.

She added that she was an accountant who assists the army by performing essential accounting work in her regiment.

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