Last summer, Katrina Zarimbo abandoned an academic profession in political science to volunteer as a champion on the front lines of Ukraine.

She worked in the two or four weeks of rotation, which allowed her time to raise her four children between the ages of three to 12 years. After the inauguration of US President Donald Trump, she decided to recruit.

“I think what Donald Trump is doing now not only retracts Europe. It is in reality, it may harm Ukraine in the battle against Russia. It actually creates tyranny in an actual time,” she said.

For Zarembo, it was “reminding us of our presence in self -reliance.”

“I was thinking, the future of Ukraine in the hands of the Ukraine army, and for this reason I should be part of the professional society, not just a volunteer,” she told the island.

The Zarebo Medical Battalion, which gives the wounded the first treatment before the hospital, a few kilometers from the connection line, is evacuated, and it is mostly composed of women and is an example of how they play a growing role in Ukraine’s defense.

Women in the 900,000 armed forces in Ukraine from 52,000 at the beginning of Russia’s invasion of Russia more than three years ago, to more than 70,000 today.

More than 20,000 in combat roles, and 5500 are fighting in trenches.

“We do not have a mandatory recruitment for women. All of them voluntarily joined for various reasons,” said the parliamentarian Yivinia Kraftuk to Al -Jazeera. “Some come from military families. I know someone who entered after the killing of her father and others do this in order to kill a brother, for revenge.”

The Zarebo family explains how the war gradually consumes all Ukrainian society.

Her husband is now a government technology contractor.

Her children realize that there is always the danger in which a Russian drone can slip through electronic jamming to where Zarebo treats wounded soldiers.

“Those who are younger, and the three -year -old children, only cling to my legs, and do not want to hear about him [my] She said, “I am going, and the biggest people who understand more, and they are worried and say they will miss me, as well as protest in their own way.”

The family’s point of view was transformed in the future in the future.

Lesya ORobets’s husband fights on the front lines, leaving her to run family engineering.

“His salary that we donated to his face, for his case,” she explained to the issue of the island.

During the absence leave a few months ago, the parents gathered their teenage daughters around the kitchen table.

“We were discussing their future professions, and we reached a suggestion that besides a civil profession that everyone should choose for themselves, they also need to obtain some military skills, depending on their talents and interests,” said Europeans.

“It seems that the next contract is the probably contract of wars. To be able to protect your country and yourself, you must be useful regardless of sex.”

Both the two girls came to know how to shoot an early age. The largest is the thinking of becoming a space engineer.

A decade ago, she was not able to do so.

Official records indicate that when Russia annexed the Crimea and sent forces to eastern Ukraine in 2014, women played only supportive roles.

“In 2014 … women who wanted to take combat positions as actions and [operating] “The grenade bombers were unable to officially occupy these situations, so they were placed as a click and a paramedic, but they were already playing the combat role,” said Krafchuk, parliamentarian. It took years to change this. “

In 2017, women became eligible to obtain combat roles and all the ranks of the army, and raised them over the deadly tasks that have borne the lowest wage, rank and status.

“This was not just opening new opportunities for women, but their labels through … the posts they were already on,” said Europeans.

Days before Russia’s conquest on a large scale, Parliament, Verkhovna Rada, expanded the list of professions whose employees had to register with the armed forces for possible recruitment. A thousand women were recruited immediately.

Today, women work as aircraft and drone operators, fighter pilots and artillery operators, in special operations and air defense. Received about 1500 medals. Five received the highest honor, the Ukrainian medal champion.

Acknowledgment has changed the perceptions of women’s roles.

On November 17, Natalia Grabaruk She became a hero overnight when, on her first day as an anti -aircraft cannon, destroyed a marine Russian missile using a manpads.

Orobets founded the price of Freedom, a non -governmental organization designed by Sky Shield, a proposed air defense umbrella to avoid Ukrainian and Ukrainian Air Force.

Olina Tregop, head of the Anti -Corruption Committee in Ukraine, said that the growing role of women in intelligence, national security and defense is accompanied by its increasing role in government.

The list of transparency bodies headed by women – including the Secretary of Military Grievances, the Anti -Corruption Action Squad in the Ministry of Defense, and the Ministry of Strategic Industries responsible for defense production.

“All of these women came during the war,” Tregop said, and I was helping direct resources as they needed to go.

Tregop said that women have become the visible international defenders of weapons and financial aid at the request of the former leader of the former commander Valerie Zaluzni, because the recruitment for them was voluntary and allowed them to leave the country.

Women also endured a growing burden in maintaining the economy standing on his feet.

Kravchuk said that the government is pushing to rehabilitate women in the profession list, such as truck drivers, tractor drivers, vehicle drivers, and anything related to construction, such as electricity and plumbing work.

Last year, women qualified to obtain 61 percent of loans to open small and medium -sized companies in Ukraine, and established 59 percent of them.

The progress of women in all these roles is related to the perception that all society is at stake.

“We are fighting our children who are deported to Russia and Krussia, and we are fighting against our women who are raped and killed. Of course, against everyone who was killed,” Zarimbo said, in a row, to Ukrainian. Allegations From forced transportation for children to Russia without family approval and Moscow forces Commitment Sexual assault and other war crimes.

“It is not about [re-establishing the] The 1991 limits … If Ukraine stops fighting, this means that there is no longer Ukraine. “