Support: Women In The Ukraine War

July 27, 2026: When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, attitudes towards Ukrainian women in the military quickly changed. Women wanted to serve and sometimes had to find backdoors they could slip through. While the government encouraged women to take military assignments, some women responded to online requests from Ukrainian combat units for people with critical skills. If a woman had the skills and applied, she was usually accepted. While men were conscripted, women had to volunteer, and a growing number did. Currently, about 60,000 female volunteers are in uniform, and that number was nearly 70,000 earlier in the war. Six percent of snipers…