This war changes everything and suspends or revokes rights that took a long time to consolidate. And women’s rights they are no exception. This Russian invasion Ukraine led to the massive displacement of women to their countries. European Union And Russia. According to the UN, they make up 80% of all refugees and 70% of IDPs. related alarms women trafficking and drama surrogate bellies, their work did not stop because of the war and is continued in cities such as Kiev. But hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian women have been unable or unwilling to leave their country, and many have had to take on a greater domestic burden in the absence of their men.
Pre-war Ukraine (population 44 million) had a long way to go economically. gender equality. according to incoming data United Nations Development Program (UNDP), ranked 49th gender inequality index Integrating 162 countries in the world. Today, like almost all war-related figures, the figures are difficult to verify. However, the estimates and studies of various international humanitarian organizations give an idea about some of them. later that conflict is left to women.
An example: The stress and hardships of war, according to Save The Children, premature births It’s a recurring phenomenon in other conflicts, such as the Balkan wars of the 1990s. widespread corruption Despite the threats volunteers displaced women who continue to work in hot regions, women police officers and the military military forces According to the Ukrainian government of Kiev, the latter increased from 30,000 to 41,000 in 2021, especially with the war – 5,000 of them are fighting on the front lines, to which are added another 19,000 civilians assisting the Ukrainian Army.
EL PERIÓDICO from the Prensa Ibérica group spoke to some of them to get their testimonies:
Alena Strijak, Chief of Police
Alena Strijak is 34 years old and Only women police chief Ukrainian. He says it proudly and speaks emphatically. Ideas come out so fast that sometimes he can’t even finish his sentences. Why did you do? War doesn’t understand dead times, and even more so if someone like Strijak is in charge of police patrols like Strijak. Kharkovis an organization with 1,500 almost all male agents in this part of eastern Ukraine. “This is likely to change in the future, but it hasn’t happened yet because we didn’t open calls for new police officers in the first year of the war,” said the woman, who joined the police force in 2015 as an inspector. clarify and quickly made the race.
Strijak has new challenges day in and day out. For example, drunks have increased in your city and a new reality is emerging. apartment robberiesattributed to the despair caused by the conflict. He says other phenomena also indicate that the war has come into some kind of cycle. “People have gotten used to the sirens and the bombings. The good thing is, they’re contacting us when there wasn’t as much communication as they are now,” he says.
Larissa, Battalion Sergeant Major
anonymously education area In cold eastern Ukraine, it is difficult to see Larissa acting in harmony among a group of men in military tactical uniforms. They are soldiers trained to improve their training and Larissa is their instructor. HE firearms specialist and he has only two weeks to teach them what he knows before they return to the battlefield.
Thus ended his old life: suddenly. Larissa, who up until a year ago gave her name only for security reasons, experienced another reality and got another job. Actually, he was a manager at a factory in the region, the President of Russia, Vladimir Putinordered a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. “It was incredible to assume that our neighboring country had decided to invade us,” he says.
Tatiana Zolotopup, volunteer
In the small town of Kamianka, which was retaken by Ukrainian forces at the end of last summer, Tatiana Zolotopup was found next to a van with a flat tire. The accident was finally found out. food and drug distribution to non-residents neither light nor electricity and they are practically non-communicative as the phones don’t work. It’s an isolated, difficult place. Remains of destroyed buildings and painted with the letter Z of the Russian Army adorn a landscape now desolate, as it is also practically desolate.
zoo, voluntarily Originally from Lugansk, he came early and finished fast. He says he decided to devote himself to this business because his territory was occupied. “We are a hundred people, mostly working in the Limán area. It is difficult to get here because of the distance and the poor condition of the roads,” he says. “I volunteer because I understand how these people from the recaptured towns are feeling, what they’re going through. My territory has been occupied and I can’t go back anymore.”