Posted on 03/10/2024 6:44:28 PM PDT by hardspunned
As Ukraine struggles against Russian assaults and its losses mount, there has been a surge of women enlisting, and they are increasingly volunteering for combat roles.
On the front line just outside Bakhmut, Ukraine, a 32-year-old commander of a Ukrainian artillery platoon rocked to and fro in the passenger seat of a beat-up Lada, as another soldier navigated the car through a thick forest, sometimes mowing down young trees. When they reached their destination, a small village less than two miles from Russian lines, all that was left were destroyed houses, their shattered roofs visible in the moonlight.
The commander, a female soldier who uses the call sign Witch, is a former lawyer who, along with two of her brothers and her mother, joined the military the day after Russia invaded in February 2022. Her first experience in combat was in the outskirts of Kyiv that year, and much of what she has learned about weapons systems since has been self-taught and on the fly.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
What a nice feel good story! Soon perhaps we will be treated to a report where children and old people are finally joining their mothers, sisters, and daughters on the front lines like the German patriots were doing in 1945 when they had the allies on the run and victory was assured!
Get the Hell out of Ukraine.
Agreed, NATO/CIA has NO PLACE in Ukraine.
FJB will fight Ukraine to the last Ukrainian life is no longer hyperbole.
Depraved.
First of all, great catch!
Secondly - Blah, Blah, BLAH!
Very sad that the NY Slimes gives NO INK to we female Veterans in AMERICA! Even with ever-increasing American female Combat Vet suicide and homeless rates, we are IGNORED. I guess they’ve yet to figure out that it is the SOLDIER (male OR female) that keeps their ‘press’ FREE....so they can print this bleeding-heart Socialist propaganda.
*SPIT*
Let the women fight in Ukraine if they’re so inclined!
Build a statue to them later; I’m sure Socialist Democrats will find a way to fund it with American tax dollars as they have with this undeclared (on our part) and pointless ‘war.’
War = Moneymaking Boondoggle for Socialist Democrats and feckless Quisling ‘republicans.’ A POX on all their houses!
P.S. Ask me what I REALLY think, LOL!
When the white people on both sides are all dead and the usa is out of conventional arms.
Women get infections.
“They have abortions at the front lines so they don’t have to put down their guns!”
- St. George Washington Zelensky
Like you are the one that is hiring. If they try to draft American boys for this farce there will be a revolution.
Well good for you! I’m sure you’d be more than happy to be marched off into this totally unnecessary meat grinder if the idiots in DC so willed it. You can climb down off your high horse with me. For over two years I have been on this forum every day decrying the slaughter of innocent Ukrainian boys. For over a year I have been on this forum decrying the indiscriminate slaughter of the old men of Ukraine. Now I find out about mass numbers of poor innocent women being massacred and guess what, “I think that’s terrible” too. What? So as not to offend your delicate sensibilities, I should proclaim “great job Z, butcher all the Ukrainian women you want, I’m no sexist”? Get the sexist chip off your shoulder.
“Get the sexist chip off your shoulder.”
LOL! Sorry. Forgot who the ‘poster’ was for this piece.
Obviously I do NOT want anyone to be dying in Ukraine. Either way, no matter who is dying, this battle is NOT ours.
That is all. :)
Watched any good snuff films lately?
I know how much you love snuff films.
Here we go again. What happened to the babushka
brigade?
“FANATICAL Putin Stooge need not apply.”
Spoken like a true nazi there “Berlin_Freeper.”
“LOL! Sorry. Forgot who the ‘poster’ was for this piece.”
What the heck is that stupidity supposed to mean? Are you one of the Zeepers who have been cheerleading the UNNECESSARY additional slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers since DC torpedoed the negotiated peace deal six weeks into this? Smiley face?!? WTH? If you happen to be one of those remorseless warmongers, why haven’t you taken your military skills to put them where your mouth is? You could have perhaps saved a poor, lightly trained 17 year old, now dead Ukrainian boy OR girl by taking their place.
SPIT!
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