Uploaded March 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
The full-scale Russian invasion affected every Ukrainian family and every woman in particular. Some were forced to evacuate to save the lives of their children. Others decided to stay despite the shelling and volunteered to help those who needed it most. And some women were mobilised for the first time, joining volunteer battalions, or decided to return to the military even though they never expected to. In this video, we tell the stories of five Ukrainian women who took up the challenge of helping Ukraine fight the occupiers in different ways: Iryna, a sniper from the 72nd Brigade who asked to be expelled from Bali to fight for Ukraine; Mariia Berlinska, an aerial reconnaissance officer who helped Ukrainian women get more posts in the army; Yuliia “Taira” Paievska, a soldier and volunteer who survived Russian captivity and now helps the families of captured defenders; combat medic Mariia Nazarova who used her visit to the United States to buy equipment for the military; and volunteer Yana Biletska who organised the delivery of international humanitarian aid to communities in Kharkiv and surrounding areas.
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00:00 RECOVER like Yuliia "Taira" Paievska
12:50 FLY like Mariia Berlinska
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37:39 HELP like Mariia Nazarova
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The full-scale Russian invasion affected every Ukrainian family and every woman in particular. Some were forced to evacuate to save the lives of their children. Others decided to stay despite the shelling and volunteered to help those who needed it most. And some women were mobilised for the first time, joining volunteer battalions, or decided to return to the military even though they never expected to. In this video, we tell the stories of five Ukrainian women who took up the challenge of helping Ukraine fight the occupiers in different ways: Iryna, a sniper from the 72nd Brigade who asked to be expelled from Bali to fight for Ukraine; Mariia Berlinska, an aerial reconnaissance officer who helped Ukrainian women get more posts in the army; Yuliia “Taira” Paievska, a soldier and volunteer who survived Russian captivity and now helps the families of captured defenders; combat medic Mariia Nazarova who used her visit to the United States to buy equipment for the military; and volunteer Yana Biletska who organised the delivery of international humanitarian aid to communities in Kharkiv and surrounding areas.
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Time codes:
00:00 RECOVER like Yuliia "Taira" Paievska
12:50 FLY like Mariia Berlinska
21:44 SHOOT like sniper Iryna "Paragraph"
31:28 VOLUNTEER like Yana Biletska
37:39 HELP like Mariia Nazarova
Support us: ukrainer.net/donate-en
Ukrainer in English YouTube: youtube.com/c/UkrainerinEnglish/videos
Ukrainer in English Facebook:
facebook.com/ukrainer.eng
Ukrainer in English Instagram:
instagram.com/ukrainer_en
#ukraine #woman
