Night activities let women to combine combat with work – they are teachers, doctors, manicurists. Many of them say that this is their way of overcoming the powerlessness they felt erstwhile the Russian troops occupied Bucza. The device guns available to the unit come from a different era – 2 maximas from 1939. Nothing else is available due to the fact that Ukraine's best equipment was sent to the front line.
No more helplessness
Valentina, a veterinarian, has the name ‘Valkyria’ in the unit. She wears camouflage, her blond hair protrudes from under a baseball cap, holds a assault firearm and wears a dust-covered bulletproof vest, dry leaves and pine needles.
She says she was afraid she'd be admitted due to the fact that she's 51 and weighs 100 kg. She was sick of being helpless. another friends died on the front, and she could not do anything – so she and another women began fighting drones. She says her sisters and brothers are here.
Another volunteer is besides in her 50 ’ s and is on her way to 1 of her first missions. He laughs that, yes, war is frightening – but giving birth too, and has been through it 3 times. As a math teacher, he returns from the forest to teach lessons. In the car, he keeps clothes, heels, lipstick...
You become a defender.
The commander is simply a grown man, Colonel Andrij Werłatyj, who has just returned from Pokrowska in east Donbasa. He had about 200 men under him who operated mobile anti-aircraft defence units in the Buchan region. Many of them were released from military service. Then Ukraine changed its mobilization laws and abruptly they were sent to the front. There was no assurance in women in the armed forces, but that changed over time. The commander says 90 percent of his men went to the army and another 10 percent hid. He had a choice: to fill positions with men of underage age or to recruit women. He emphasizes that erstwhile you wear a uniform, you are not a female or a man – you become a defender. He adds that there are women who will surpass any man in carrying out military duties due to the fact that they are liable and precise.
Witches spend weekends in military training. They're active due to the fact that they have individual reasons. Valentina remembers the business of Bucza – the panic and scream of her child... 1 day a deafening fire forced them to take shelter in an icy basement. The walls were shaking, and plaster was falling from the ceiling. It was so loud that she couldn't hear the words of a frightened kid who hugged and screamed right into her ear.
She remembers the dead and the escape during which her household passed the burnt tanks. He tells how at 1 of the checkpoints a Russian soldier ordered the car to leave the window and put a weapon to his son's head. erstwhile they returned home, she felt united with the community that changed those experiences. He says everyone has become a different man. It's a silent rage. He continues to believe in Ukraine's victory.
When Bucza was occupied, Russian soldiers went from home to house. They raped and murdered. 1 day there was a rumor that the occupiers would come to kill the children. 1 volunteer confesses that she will never forgive the Russians for the decision she made. Soldiers never came and didn't gotta act. However, it inactive haunts her and feels guilty. She says that fighting helps her – due to the fact that she will never be a victim again, she will never be so frightened again.
