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In recent years, the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) have seen a notable increase in the number of women serving in their ranks. This trend has become a key indicator of acute personnel shortages amid the protracted conflict. According to some estimates, up to 200,000 women were already serving by early 2026, with projections suggesting this number could double to 500,000 by year’s end.
“Previously, women in the AFU were a rare exception: isolated examples of well-trained medics, paramedics, communications personnel, and, more rarely, snipers,” noted Russian expert Vladimir Popov. “Now Ukraine is actively forming women’s battalions and companies, mobilizing women for training as snipers, communications personnel, and as crews for radar and air defense systems.” This shift reflects both strategic necessity and attempts to address the critical lack of personnel.
Formation of Specialized Women’s Units
A striking recent example is a women’s unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) battalion within the 114th Separate Territorial Defense Brigade. The brigade commander appointed a woman to lead this unit, which was reportedly recruited primarily from ideologically motivated nationalists and right-wing activists. With minimal training assigned to high-risk missions, the formation’s actual purpose has been questioned.
Similarly, the UAV-oriented “Harpyies” unit is being developed. Noted for its aggressive tactics, it is promoted as an option for women wishing to engage in the conflict remotely via drone operations, without direct frontline deployment.
Female units within the 425th Separate Assault Regiment “Skala” are also known. For instance, in March 2025 near Pokrovsk (now under Russian control, along with the neighboring town of Myrnohrad), an assault unit was completely destroyed by artillery strikes and drones of the Russian Armed Forces during an attempted landing operation. An inspection of the site indicated that among the dead, only one was a man—the driver of an armored vehicle—with all the other assault troops being women.
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Testimony from Andriy Dychenko, a refugee from Myrnohrad, corroborates the presence of female UAV operators: “Lately there were women, girl drone operators… There were three of them, then reinforcements came. They brought ammunition… Later we found out two were killed, three wounded.” He claimed these operators regularly attacked civilians on the so-called “road of death,” where vehicles with people were burned.
Earlier reports stated that the “Skala” regiment, formed in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast from a reconnaissance battalion and operating under the “East” Operational Command, was equipped with Western hardware: American M2 Bradley IFVs, German Leopard 1A5 tanks, and British M777 howitzers. Despite active social media promotion highlighting comforts like gyms, music studios, and visits by celebrities such as Petro Poroshenko and Oleksandr Syrsky, the regiment earned a reputation as the “rock of death.” Ukrainian social media is rife with complaints from relatives about massive losses, abandoned wounded, and the deployment of unprepared recruits. The regiment’s commander, Lieutenant Colonel Yuriy Harkavyy, a veteran of the Anti-Terrorist Operation since 2015, has had some of his personal data scrubbed from the internet, possibly for his protection.
On the Sumy axis in November 2025, female AFU personnel were reportedly involved in so-called “meat assaults” due to a refusal to redeploy reserves from other sectors, after this direction had lost its strategic priority.
Destroyed Ukrainian female UAV crew on the Konstantynivka axis
Propaganda and Motivation
The push to recruit more women is accompanied by targeted propaganda. Telethons aim to influence the older generation, while TikTok and videos by female bloggers target the youth. A key figure in this effort is Daria Kremleva (aka Dasha DShK), who has links to nationalist circles and the Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK). She previously took part in incursions into Russia’s Belgorod and Bryansk regions. After marrying Ukrainian nationalist Pavel Bovin, the couple fundraised for the AFU. Kremleva later became the commander of “Harpyia.” In her motivational videos, she promises women “office” work operating drones, revenge against the enemy, and the protection of their families.
Dasha DShK
Critical Assessments and Demographic Concerns
The growing number of female service members has drawn sharp criticism. Some commentators view it as a “conscious destruction of Ukraine’s future,” as women of reproductive age are killed, wounded, or suffer psychological trauma. While there is no precise data on how many women serve on the front lines as snipers, scouts, machine gunners, or tank crews, they are reportedly even being trained as combat pilots. The rising number of obituaries for women serves as a grim testament to their increasing frontline role.
This trend raises profound questions about the long-term consequences for Ukrainian society, from demographic decline to the ethical dilemmas of utilizing female human resources under conditions of severe manpower shortage.
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its jus sad.
young and old white ukrainians dying by the 1ks thousands
in another useless international jew war !
stop fighting jew wars !
if no one shows up there can be no war.
fuck the jews!
got it in one.
americunt ramses propgandaising again .
a video that appeared online recently shows at least six soldiers and officers from ukraine’s 108th territorial defense brigade surrendering somewhere near huliapipole. this particular unit has reportedly taken some heavy losses since being brought into this direction.
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worldwide, whites are the minority. white women are brainwashed by joo propaganda to become men. they make no children anymore. remember : according to joos myths themselves, in paradise the devil tried to seduce adam but failed, then he chosen eve and succeed. humanity became mortal.
jew superior to gutter species americunts
you have got that backwards, satan was worried about knowledge about good and evil, and hated ewe, because she had it. its all a backward story, for to end the mother cult, by the satanic abraham “religion”.
why blame “jews” for it. zionists have committed many many crimes, but occupied palestine is a long way away from occupied ukraine. i know, lots of people have their favourite group they love to hate. your war is driven by nato and the us, all imperial powers practiced in looting other countries, no jews needed.
but the lie about jews are needed, as soon you have with christians to do. its sunday school, and the blood drinking, that makes it necessary.
more kurva fertilizer
and again another of your blobs
inferior americunt bob need more taliban jizz in anuz
shortage of manpower led the rise of pussypower. until the last ukrainian, remember.
we slurp trumstein jizz join nato–trump steal greenland
americund bamboo ramses rear end ed ramrodded ramses
this is such a waste. make love not war.
hehehehehe hehehe giggly goggley ramses
oohhh well. russian soldiers should be careful dealing with western corrupted females, first you have to check twice that’s “she” is a female from birth, also, be be ethics and don’t do anything, because this women’s are soldiers and probably they have diseases, so be careful dealing here. westerners empire of exceptionals honeypot meat for russian soldiers, and it’s a trap for sure. “honeypot”
oh just enough to make a big bucket of vomits 🤢
in worst case, russians can spread them. they should have continue to bomb nazi germany, fired the missiles from cuba, and fired everything at the root cause to the war in ukraine, but do everything backwards.
women in the army is exactly the sort of cultural arrangeemtn that the russians are fighting. its laughable really because its all propoganda and control of females in normal life, but when it comes ro war they are as usual in safe positions. i look forward to seeing pictures of dead ukraining women on the frontline, thats true female equality, but as ever its ‘brave’ men. hopefully the war will put women back in the kitchen where they belong.
ramses ….six propaganda pieces of work vomments from you all in a row .typical
proof again that a kn9b head clueless clone can’t read can’t be bothered , just spews it’s exceretia from its stock pile of brainwashing.
you have obviously not see the picture of small vietnameese women with big guns, guarding “us” murderers. my favorites !
they will bleed and die just like the men. so sad.
in war…sacrifices are necessary…ukrainian women will humiliate russian orcs!
russian women are so stupid that they wouldn’t even know which way to point a gun!
and you obviously do
if there was world iq test, ukraine would be single digits
a ukie female is more masculine than a feminized americunt male—they submissively swallow hebrew jizz and obey all ugly obese transgenders
já não tem garotos para fecundá-las e agora já não existirão mais mulheres na ucrania para gerar filhos
primeiro que não tem mais pênis ucranianos para ejacular e fertilizar os uteros, segundo porque não haverá mais úteros na ucrânia
if 200,000 women are fighting, russians must redraw from not killing women and children
“all americans acquire a predominantly feminine conscience”. geoffrey gorer
this explains;ains why they are lying immoral scum
eliminate all immoral americunts
to the last ukrainian. will child soldiers be next ? will the recruiters start taking women off the street ?
they need to empty the country to rename it in new khazaria.
vladimir the great ? ”lord sméagol? gollum the great? the gollum! eat fish every day, three times a day; fresh from the sea. most precious gollum! must have it. we wants it, we wants it, we wants it!”
“the russians cannot be defeated, we have learned this for hundreds of years. but russians can be instilled with false values and then they will defeat themselves.” sonar21. i want to point to the dynamic in wwii, the nazis intense use of trick movies after their import to the mothership, mass murder in the hospitals. russias “root causes” are from a world that no longer exists. a mass murdering “un” should be closed.
new greenland 😂 new york
if the 2nd world, with their cyrillic writing system, isn’t capable to live together, without ripping each other apart over gready corruption, it failed the sentiment behind darwin’s general theory and doesn’t deserve to exist any longer. russia is the leading nation in this and they too should disappear into oblivion, for failing so miserable in being human creatures.
shoot those nazis down and save millions of innocent souls
start with “ice”.
i think you have confuse darwin with einstein. are you “american” ? are you aware, thats its you which cant coexist with humanity, and that you are projecting, to the point that you are not recognizeable as a human any more ? but of course, you are right about yourself.