Although the vast majority of Ukraine’s military is made up of men, some 32,000 women belonged to the country’s armed forces before Russia invaded Ukraine. More have joined the fight since then. MsReads
Daria Vasylchenko, a soldier and medic in Ukraine's Territorial Defense Forces, at a sandbagged position in Kyiv, Ukraine, on March 5, 2022. KYIV, Ukraine — They patrol checkpoints and hold down front lines, evacuate civilians and provide crucial combat medical care.
Kramarenko, 55, a medical assistant who worked at a burn hospital in the capital, began to volunteer as a wartime medic in the country’s east in 2015, using her vacation time to treat wounded soldiers and civilians on the front lines of a military conflict with Moscow-backed separatists. “I made it really cute,” she said. “All these pink, fluffy carpets, kitchen furniture from IKEA, vanity mirrors with lots of lamps, with my new eye shadow palettes from Huda Beauty — and all this started. I am very furious.”
“They didn’t even know how to use a tourniquet,” she said in an interview from the building where she is now based. “But now my soldiers know how.” She said it was important to her that on the battlefield, she is seen not only as a woman but “a citizen of this country.”In a neighborhood in the north of Kyiv, Daria Vasylchenko feels well-prepared to greet any Russians who may break past Ukrainian defenses and try to take the capital.
Since the war began, she has been responsible for maintaining security in part of the city’s north — relatively close to Russian troops who have been stalled as they approached the capital. At times, men waiting in line to enlist have questioned why a woman is working as a soldier. “I know that this is just a flat. We can renovate it and so on,” she said. “We continue doing our job in the army. Anything else is not important now.”Alona Bushynska
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