DNYUZ/New York Times: ‘If Not Me, Who?’: As Ukraine Seeks Troops, Women Prepare for the Call
Halyna Vynokur, a clerk in a hardware store in Kyiv, was shouldering a firearm for the first time. Iryna Sychova, a purchasing manager at a department store, disassembled and reassembled the jumble of rods and springs in a Kalashnikov rifle.
They were among two dozen women who turned out in a forest near Kyiv one recent weekend for a course in firearms and urban combat, training that included shooting rifles, finding booby traps and throwing hand grenades. They were spurred by a sense of duty, they said, realizing they might some day end up on the front lines.
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WNU Editor: Not surprised that Ukraine is going to recruit women to fight in the war. The average age for a soldier in the Ukraine army is 43 years old, and getting older. The Ukraine army is running out of male bodies to fight in this war, and they need new recruits. Since there are a lot of widows and mothers who have lost their sons and loved ones in this war, the Ukraine Army will (I predict) have no trouble tapping into this grief and anger for them to join.