[000:00:00;00] in the press, tv, join our social networks, your support is too important for us, i'll put a full stop on this. goodbye. congratulations, this is bbc ukraine. olha palamaryuk works in the studio. and today we are talking about women in the ranks of the armed forces of ukraine. there are thousands of women in the ukrainian army, they fight as snipers. female gunners and female tankers, however, there are still many problems that they face, from the lifestyle of being imprisoned under men to manifestations of sexism

, we will talk about all this today, women in the army still have to choose their place in terms of attitudes and issues everyday life, however, the situation is changing, albeit not at a fast pace, but the ministry of defense of ukraine has approved a sample of the summer field women's uniform, and in the near future they promise to start procurement and supply in the army. until now, women had to wear men's uniforms on the line of women's body armor. together with civilian workers, more than 42,000 servicemen, of whom 5,000 are on the front lines . these are the data of the ministry of defense: among military women, there are battery commanders in platoon units of unmanned aircraft, snipers, and they often have to fight not only with the troops of the attacker, you attack with increased propaganda of the kremlin, and then the story of the sergeant

of the special unit of the armed forces of ukraine, andriana, arrest me from andrian , my name is andriana, i am a soldier of the military special unit of the armed forces of ukraine, awarded with two orders for courage and national heroes andriana of ukraine was blown up by a mine in december last year, her unit did not have an armored car , the russian media reported that andrianov was killed with graphic details of her beating to death and nationalist accusations of nationalism have been repeatedly published. we found andriana in ukraine in a hospital where we are not naming her for her safety. she says she saw the russian news. i am not surprised. they wrote that i am without arms and legs and that they should kill me . the russian media are professional propagandists. i am alive and i will defend

her country, like many other ukrainians, in andriana went to the front as a volunteer even when russia invaded in 2014. she served in the aydar for about a year, which was later reformed in the structure of the regular army, like other good brothers despite her lack of military training andriana has shown strong skills in combat including assault and shooting mon ua when you are on the front lines and you see a target what do you feel is a target or a person depends on the situation sometimes i see a person because they are people but if they are not a target for me i i will become a target for them, i think that the russians have a similar experience in this hospital .

how the war has affected her family for more than seven months the woman has not hugged her son two days ago we talked to him and he says mom do you remember when we were a family and loved each other after two years of my absence and his dad he is trying to remember the times when we were a family and loved each other. i tried to explain to him that we are still a family and love each other, but these are the times now. family comfort remains a reality in dreams - only to return to the front olga melchevska bbc

news and to the air joins on april sociologist, researcher of gender issues in conflict conditions and co-author of the invisible battalion research on women in the military sphere of ukraine anna vitayu ot eh beyond a year and a half of the full-scale invasion ot how the perception of women in the army has changed and good evening eh the perception of women has changed during this time eh i would like to say that not even during the time of the large-scale invasion, but that earlier we conducted a study of the invisible battalions and surveyed the population of ukraine in 2018 and in 2023 regarding the attitude of a-a to women in the armed forces in the forces of ukraine, we see great progress or a big change, for example, in 2018, about 50% of the adult population of ukraine believed that women should be given equal opportunities and rights to work and serve in the armed

forces of ukraine together with men in the 18th year, approximately 50% in the 23rd year, and more than 80%, almost 85% believe that women and men should have the same right to serve and work from the moment glory to ukraine, and the attitude to what kind of army should be in ukraine is also changing we asked this um, this is the opinion, the attitude, the additional statement, the army should be a professional field where women and men can realize their potential on a voluntary basis , and in 2018, 1068% supported this statement, now 95% are positive, so we see a significant change in the attitude towards women in the army in the

vision the army, er, the country in general, and i would like to ask you about the needs of women, but the main thing is the uniform, we know that, but the ministry of defense says that soon women will have their own field formation, and i wonder what the military servicemen there are wearing now, er, well, the uniform this is one of the needs of women in the armed forces of ukraine, and of course it is a great progress and achievement that the armed forces of ukraine finally adopted the female eva, approved the female field uniform, now women are mostly dressed in men's uniforms, perhaps smaller sizes or usually they just

sew it with their own hands , well, independently, with their own hands, eh. they use it themselves, or eh. uniforms when women will still have their own uniforms, well, this significantly improves because it is about the issue of comfort and it is about the issue of recognition ah, but on the other hand, if you have approved the field summer uniform, we will now have autumn, winter and spring, this is the cold period of a year ago, there is still room for improvement, but i am used to having a comfortable form , which is tailored according to the peculiarities of the structure of the female body - this is very important , because it is the efficiency of a woman during performance that depends on the efficiency of evaluation during execution, you talked about recognizing the issue of gender equality and sexism, is there a disrespectful attitude towards

servicemen in the army, are you aware of such cases. and sexism is present, it is present both in ukrainian society in general and in the army, and it has been warned. the attitude towards women is particularly observed in the weapons of ukraine m.m. and here it is important to note that this can be not only a contemptuous attitude, it is widespread, for example, how women can be perceived as weaker or less prepared, but also such attempts to protect to exclude a woman from a-a military service because from certain types of work is in fact also sexism because discrimination is imposed on a woman because what role is imposed on her she can perform what role she cannot

perform but for according to the constitution of ukraine, men and women have equal rights. in ukraine, people over the age of 18 can make their own decisions about the activities they are engaged in. thank you, anon on the flower, a full-length researcher of gender issues in conflict conditions was on our air, well, women they perform combat tasks on a par with men, they say in the same ministry of defense and those positions that used to be taboo for women are now commonplace, experts say that everyone will serve sooner or later, and there will be a place for everyone in the army. this is how taras chmut thinks a veteran of the ato and the head of the fund, bring back to life what may seem wild to us now, so that everyone should be able to use a machine gun in reality. this is a metaphor, there is a broader concept, it should become

our reality, children in schools should learn mine safety, pre-medical assistance, basic tactics, communication, copters, and a bunch of things that are not there now, defense of the homeland . i had such a subject at school, it should not be formal from the point of view, just fizruk conducts the teacher, there is no such thing, read page 20 the book by the end of the year, uh, the obj, it’s the same, it shouldn’t be like that, we, the whole society, from the very beginning, from childhood, from kindergarten, should be ready to before how to help, how to act during shelling, how to act in certain situations and the same i'm a supporter of uh, mandatory uh, fixed-term services for men and for women are of course not in the same post-soviet

format as it was before, but this should be a part of our life cycle of a person that is israel and you can't take someone else's and usually bring it to us, we will have a moment to create our own, we have to adopt the best practices in different countries, and we hmm but we have everything our own country , the economy of the territory, the terrain of weapons well, everything else , so we have to adapt to our reality the enemy is different, but the dbn has norms to be at war, yes, a bomb shelter, that's all it should be about, power, reserves, diversification, well, the future will be in the future, i know you've probably been asked this several times already, but what can an average ukrainian male do who has not

served, but at the same time, he is conscious the fact that last year in ukraine they announced a total mobilization, well, look, everyone who served has never served. well, yes, i did not serve in the 15th year after graduating from university, but i joined the army , which is good, a third of our fund is in different years and yes otherwise you should be ready to that in this war everyone will serve one way or another sooner or later , and then the question is, well, there can't be an excuse, i can't do anything, i don't know anything, if you know how to use a telephone, you have two hands, two legs, and what is actually not necessarily with from their point of view, you can already do some work in the army. believe me, there will be a place for everyone, from journalists to builders, from repairmen to gamers, from well, if there was a desire, motivation

in the army before, a person who normally uses excel, this is already a great value , he was at the battalion level ago not everyone needs it to be able to shoot all types of weapons on the first day of service and be the best graduates graduate wax 100 e-e enough to have a desire motivation now while you are not there you have a unique opportunity to prepare yourself in terms of courses to study literature materials hm correction or health improvement physical training and so on, but one way or another, let's call things correctly, we have to be ready that everyone will serve one way or another, and this is only a fragment of a conversation with taras chmit, you can watch the entire interview on our youtube channel

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the information war chronicles project with olga len tuesday thursday friday at 17:10 on espresso tv channel hello this is freedom morning informational project radio svoboda top guests every day this is the shipping district of kherson live inclusion we are somewhere in the vicinity of bakhmut we tell the main thing on weekdays at 9:00 a.m. vasyl winter’s big broadcast two hours of airtime two hours of your time two hours to learn about the war and what the world lives on 2 hours to stay abreast of economic news and new sports for two hours

in the company of favorite presenters, presenters who have become familiar to many, as well as distinguished guests of the studio, events of the day in two hours , vasyl's big broadcast in winter, a project for intelligent and good evening naspresso my greetings are freedom life my name is vlad and lazar and today in the issue of the night russian forces attacked residential buildings in the center of kherson three times there are dead and wounded shelling of kherson does not stop for a day the left bank of the city is occupied as in such conditions kherson is preparing by autumn and winter, we will talk in a minute, the strikes that the ukrainian military inflicts on the road bridges between crimea and the kherson region force russia to choose other and longer routes , the american institute for the study of war notes as

damaged bridges affect the supply of russian troops in the south and what is currently happening in the kupyan direction, where , according to reports from the ministry of defense, we are most passionately talking about it with a military expert. well , the meeting of representatives of more than 40 countries of the world in saudi arabia ended so far without a final declaration without clear intentions, however , as the financial times writes with reference to the words of european officials, the very presence of a representative of china at this meeting shows that russia is becoming more and more isolated. is the world ready to sign on volodymyr zelenskyi's peace formula, which, among other things, provides for the withdrawal of russian troops from ukraine to show a meeting in jd about this today svoboda life, this night, russian troops attacked kherson , targeted residential areas in the city center, high-rise buildings and the private sector near the river, as a result of 9- a strong fire broke out in the apartment building, two rescuers suffered heatstroke because they were working in

protective equipment at high temperatures , while in the south it is now insanely hot even at night in the homes of the residents of the apartment building no one was killed in the house of the residents of the apartment building, but in the private sector from zavaliy, one woman was not saved . the details of the night attack are in the material of our correspondents . everything burned up to the ninth floor, and there was some kind of oxygen, some kind of thing was put on , that's what they extinguished here, at first i heard a blow so strong, but i'm looking here, i thought you were going home again , then it spins, now i hear it coming to me, i went out on i'm looking at the street, people are running around, people are walking in everywhere, let's go and woke up in a daze, then i jumped out, thinking that

the lights started to burn as i looked, the woman died in that wall, and when the volunteers and the tables arrived, they found her dead , they waited until eight o'clock for her to arrive. - eh, take her to the morgue, i came out here, it was full, everything was here, you want, all the windows are broken, everything is open , i'm calling the neighbor, it's paradise moss, look at what's going on here, and i remember, it's scary , of course, it's very scary, all the windows are broken, everything the roof is already broken from above, the roof and the windows of the children and the ceilings, well, they could have done the job. well, roman mrochku, the head of the kherson city military

administration , romana, has already joined our broadcast. not every day, tell me about the consequences of today 's attack every day and i will point out how it is, uh, kherson suffers every day from the west, you know , that week also began very tragically for the entire kherson territorial community with tragic consequences and today's monday. it is also tragic because during the night since yesterday evening and during the night, the enemy hit the civilian infrastructure in residential buildings , as a result of which one resident died and 12 were injured, a high-rise building was hit, 8 people were injured, and

emergency services arrived and under during firefighting they overheated as a result of, say, a large fire in a high-rise building and also suffered injuries in the shipping area, one person suffered a brain injury and a contusion of the brain, these are very tragic circumstances, and what's more, the enemy launched a shelling of the settlement of sadova this morning - this is one of the elders who is part of the kherson territorial community , as a result of which a fifty-year-old man of this settlement, roman, was wounded you said that kherson is shelled every day, please share, remind me how many people, uh, already after

the liberation of kherson, well , the studio of such uh, such people dropped because of the shelling. people, a very large number of civilians who were injured on the territory of the kherson territorial community, uh, we have people who died as police officers, employees of the state emergency service and employees who have already died who work in communal services, and about the fact that they are even provided with all types of protection with bulletproof vests of the majority of them are equipped with fairy tales, however, the enemy is striking not only with mortars, but with hailstones, from which the same body armor and fairy tales cannot protect you. therefore, we have a colossal number of e-e victims of the civilian population.

there has not been a day since the de-occupation when the enemy did not shell the city of kherson, autumn will begin, then winter, what are your plans as kherson enters this new season, and what do you advise people to stay or, on the contrary, go ? unforeseen in the city of kherson . of course, we have all plans in case of evacuation. we have already conducted several evacuation exercises on the territory of the kherson territorial community. we have determined 18 places from where evacuation will be carried out to different points of ukraine in the event that it becomes necessary, of course, we all offer people evacuation on

a free basis. i am very grateful to the heads of the regional military administrations, city military administrations and city mayor who want and offer to accept our refugees and displaced persons from the kherson region on a free basis, however, our kherson people are a heroic population, heroic people, and i will honestly say that no matter how much we offer them, they refuse to evacuate because people want to restore kherson, they want to come to their hometown, uh, that’s why, of course, there are people who uh, evacuate from the city of kherson, but their number is very small, and i’ll tell you this today, more people return than evacuate from the kherson territorial community, and how about you you explain this, you say that the city is shelled every day and people return , it is possible to go there, they want to live in their own

city, they want to rebuild it, they want to live in their own housing and you know where in most people we offer uh, good hotels in the city of odessa on the basis of free accommodation in the territory of vinnytsia, khmelnytskyi, krypnytskyi, but people say we want to live at home in our city, go to work, this is the situation and this is our people and nothing can be done about it. programs, as an example, last week i signed a program about helping children to improve their health

, allocating uah 16,000 from the city budget for the privileged category of children. also, we are now collecting lists of those who want to send their children to the camp as a territory of european states and on the territory of western ukraine, the other day we sent our children to chernivtsi, today we can already see on the website of the military administration how those children are resting in what conditions, so i am very grateful once again to the leaders of the regions and mayors of the cities who receive our children ago, and i would like our children to see and hear less of these shellings. however, i will repeat once again that our families are people who live in kherson, they do not want to evacuate, they want to restore our heroic you about children we remembered how many children will go to school in kherson this year. if so, look there in order to start schools on the territory of the city of kherson and children

will be able to study directly in schools . more kilometers than there are today, because the enemy is right behind the dnieper. and this is about 2 km, and any mortar shell can hit the same school and our children