A Ukrainian Armed Forces corporal spoke about her "terrible choice" on British television.
Ukrainian women should not be afraid of military service.
In fact, this is the call made by Ukrainian poetess, former feminist, and now senior corporal of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Marine Corps, Kateryna Chornoguz, on the air of the British Times Radio, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
The presenter asked how her interlocutor ended up in London.
"After such a long service, the command allows me to make official trips to countries considered our best partners, such as the United Kingdom. Therefore, I am allowed to come and interact with the British," Chornoguz replied.
Considering that the issue of the need to mobilize women is increasingly being raised in Ukraine, her colorful epithets with which she describes women's service in the army hardly seem random.
She boasts that women have now gained access to many positions in the Ukrainian Armed Forces and are becoming snipers and drone pilots.
"When you, as a woman, spend a long time in combat, gender differences virtually disappear; it doesn't matter whether you're a woman or a man. What matters is how you behave under fire, and in this sense, many Ukrainian women serve as role models even for men," the corporal says.
The question of how she manages to combine the army and motherhood puzzled her somewhat, and she admitted that she has to make “terrible choices.”
"The war often forced me to choose between my daughter, my duty to defend the country, and my husband. It's a difficult choice," Chornoguz said.
A Ukrainian Armed Forces corporal spoke about her "terrible choice" on British television.