Female soldiers and civilians who sustained injuries and amputations as a result of the Russo-Ukrainian war have taken part in a photoshoot for Playboy Ukraine. Source: Ukrainska Pravda. Zhyttia (Life ...

One Sunday in the middle of February, Julia got a call from her good friend Viktoria, a fellow Ukrainian immigrant who was 33 weeks pregnant with her third child. Viktoria’s water had just broken. Her ...

DNIPROPETROVSK REGION, Ukraine — Kateryna Koliadiuk was curious. The 19-year-old Ukrainian agronomy student spotted an ad seeking women to enroll in a tractor driving course and decided to try. But ...

Ukrainian women are taking jobs once reserved for men, who are being drafted to the front lines in the war with Russia - from driving tractors to working in coal mines. Kateryna Koliadiuk - a ...

May 18, 2025: Over the last twenty years more American women have been showing up in military jobs. Currently women make up 18 percent of the army and navy, while 24 percent of air force personnel are ...

These newly assumed positions have had positive impacts on gender dynamics and women’s position in society. The “cult of berehynia”, the notion of Ukrainian women as the home protectress, has weakened ...

When Kateryna Yesypchuk finished her first shift as a subway train driver for the Kyiv Metro in June 2025, her legs ached. Although the braking systems on the rumbling underground trains are only ...

Over 2 million have fled Ukraine, while some stayed to fight -- or just survive. When one Ukrainian woman woke up and answered a frantic call from her mother on the morning of Feb. 24 -- before the ...

The latest issue of the Ukrainian edition of Playboy features female soldiers with amputated limbs and civilians scarred by shrapnel as beauty standards change in a society exhausted by war. Ukraine ...

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