Posted on 10/30/2023 10:18:03 AM PDT by MeganC
Women have rarely taken frontline fighting roles within the Ukraine war until now.
A Russian mercenary group is attempting to recruit women for combat roles in Ukraine, according to the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD).
In its daily intelligence briefing for Monday, the MoD said that Redut - a state-backed private military company - is appealing for women to work as snipers and drone operators in its Borz Battalion.
Redut - formerly known as Shield - has links to the GRU, Russia's foreign intelligence agency.
It is part of a group of mercenary forces that protect commercial operations of Russian companies, and has been deployed in Ukraine since the start of the full-scale invasion in 2022.
Composed of former Russian special forces and members of the Wagner mercenary group, Redut was reportedly involved in the plot to assassinate Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the early days of the war.
The UK MoD cited Russian defence minister Sergei Shoigu saying 1,100 women were currently deployed in Ukraine, serving mostly in medical support and food service roles.
That number is equivalent to 0.3% of Russia's military force, it estimated.
The UK MoD said it was "unclear" whether the wider Russian defence forces would follow suit and bring more women into combat roles.
Russian forces have likely sustained heavy losses over 20 months of grinding warfare in Ukraine, and may now be seeking more ways to bolster troop numbers.
Throughout history, women have played diverse roles in times of war, often making significant contributions to war efforts - despite facing societal and cultural barriers.
Women have so far taken few frontline combat roles in Ukraine, though there is a strong tradition of female snipers and other combat troops serving in Soviet forces during the Second World War, says the UK MoS.
In Russia's initial Kyiv offensive at the start of the war, Redut sustained heavy losses of up to 90% of its fighting force, according to Insider.
The remainder were offered contracts with Russia's conventional army, allowing the Russian MoD to effectively rebuild and control the force.
And I doubt that Ruzzia is doing this because Putin cares about 'womyn's rights'.
I think the time has come for the Rush Limbaugh, all-women battalion, with ‘synchronized menstrual cycles’.
I see we are back to “Ukraine Grandmothers are destroying Russian tanks with pickle-jars” level of nonsense from you.
That’s funny.
Ruzzia is far from out if men in their nearly one million man army. However Ukraine has not only run out of fighting age men, they are running out grandparents, cripples, of mothers and children to throw into the meat grinder ON BEHALF OF WHAT? What are they fighting for? The death of all Russian natives since 2014.
Every 21 days the war will come to a grinding halt
I think you mean the woman who knocked down a small hobby drone that showed up at her balcony and was believed to be used by burglars looking through the windows and patio doors for empty apartments to rob.
The woman was sitting on her balcony and grabbed a jar of pickles to hit it with and knocked it down then swept the broken drone off the street.
I said pickles, it was actually a jar of tomatoes.
Most Young Ukraine women have fled to Poland.
And are now being bred by Polish men.
I never gave this story much credence until you just explained it to us. Thank you!
What a great idea, Ukraine is gonna run out of Uke Nazis sooner!
Lyudmila Pavlichenko, the Greatest Female Sniper of All Time
Lyudmila eliminated more than three hundred Nazis!
Lyudmila Pavlichenko, colorized image.
“What are they fighting for? The death of all Russian natives since 2014.”
Which makes perfect sense. If the Russian natives are seizing Ukrainian territory then it makes sense to kill them. All of them. That’s what you do to invaders.
lol
So long as it irritates you then my day is complete.
Russia has lost enough young men that its population growth will be reduced in the near future. Losing young women as well will accelerate that population decline.
It’s what we should be doing with ALL pro-Russian vermin.
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