DCminx 🕊🌍🔥🌱
@dcminx.bsky.social
UK/US Politics - Climate Change is not a debate Disinformation is killing democracy & our planet Anti-Racist Anti-Fascist Feminist UBI 🌍🔥
‼️ Ukraine is increasingly a country held together, behind the military lines, by women. Millennial women, in their 30s, born into an independent Ukraine, raised in economic turbulence and thrust into adulthood on the wave of revolution and war, are shouldering huge burdens of responsibility 👇
November 26, 2025 at 11:06 PM
‼️ Ukraine is increasingly a country held together, behind the military lines, by women. Millennial women, in their 30s, born into an independent Ukraine, raised in economic turbulence and thrust into adulthood on the wave of revolution and war, are shouldering huge burdens of responsibility 👇
‼️ What stands out most to her is not the danger, but the demand. Hundreds of people – many of them civilians – join the waiting lists for training each month.
‼️ “So many men my age are already gone. Someone has to take their place.” says Ilona.
🇺🇦 #SlavaUkraini 🇺🇦
‼️ “So many men my age are already gone. Someone has to take their place.” says Ilona.
🇺🇦 #SlavaUkraini 🇺🇦
November 26, 2025 at 5:26 PM
‼️ What stands out most to her is not the danger, but the demand. Hundreds of people – many of them civilians – join the waiting lists for training each month.
‼️ “So many men my age are already gone. Someone has to take their place.” says Ilona.
🇺🇦 #SlavaUkraini 🇺🇦
‼️ “So many men my age are already gone. Someone has to take their place.” says Ilona.
🇺🇦 #SlavaUkraini 🇺🇦
‼️ The training centre keeps a low profile, changing locations after being targeted several times. Trainees accept this as part of the routine.
‼️ “You understand very quickly that drone operators are hunted. You feel it from the first day,” says Ilona.
‼️ “You understand very quickly that drone operators are hunted. You feel it from the first day,” says Ilona.
November 26, 2025 at 5:26 PM
‼️ The training centre keeps a low profile, changing locations after being targeted several times. Trainees accept this as part of the routine.
‼️ “You understand very quickly that drone operators are hunted. You feel it from the first day,” says Ilona.
‼️ “You understand very quickly that drone operators are hunted. You feel it from the first day,” says Ilona.
‼️ Ilona enrolled at a civilian-accessible drone school after months of watching Russian aerial attacks intensify around her home. She had no military experience and little confidence she would fit in. “I thought drones were for professionals,” she says. “People who grew up with technology. Not me.”
November 26, 2025 at 5:26 PM
‼️ Ilona enrolled at a civilian-accessible drone school after months of watching Russian aerial attacks intensify around her home. She had no military experience and little confidence she would fit in. “I thought drones were for professionals,” she says. “People who grew up with technology. Not me.”
‼️ Elizabeth's FPV training coincided with a period of heavy losses in her region, and several members of her team were injured within months of deployment. The dynamic inside the units shifted quickly. “People stopped caring who was a woman or who wasn’t,” she says. “They cared who could fly.”
November 26, 2025 at 5:26 PM
‼️ Elizabeth's FPV training coincided with a period of heavy losses in her region, and several members of her team were injured within months of deployment. The dynamic inside the units shifted quickly. “People stopped caring who was a woman or who wasn’t,” she says. “They cared who could fly.”
‼️ Elisabeth’s first experience of the war was the sound. Her town came under repeated bombardment in 2022, and she spent weeks sleeping in stairwells and basements. “After a while you stop asking what you can do,” she says. “You ask what is still possible.”
November 26, 2025 at 5:26 PM
‼️ Elisabeth’s first experience of the war was the sound. Her town came under repeated bombardment in 2022, and she spent weeks sleeping in stairwells and basements. “After a while you stop asking what you can do,” she says. “You ask what is still possible.”
‼️ Dasha leads a mixed-gender unit operating a few kilometres from the eastern frontline. The atmosphere is one of exhaustion rather than heroism. “This isn’t about women proving anything,” she says. “It’s about necessity. Everyone is stretched. Everyone is adapting.”
November 26, 2025 at 5:26 PM
‼️ Dasha leads a mixed-gender unit operating a few kilometres from the eastern frontline. The atmosphere is one of exhaustion rather than heroism. “This isn’t about women proving anything,” she says. “It’s about necessity. Everyone is stretched. Everyone is adapting.”
‼️ Dasha did not expect to serve. She spent the first months of the invasion helping as a volunteer, then moved into drone work as more men from her region were killed or mobilised. “It wasn’t about whether I was ready,” she says. “It was about the fact that there were fewer people left.”
November 26, 2025 at 5:26 PM
‼️ Dasha did not expect to serve. She spent the first months of the invasion helping as a volunteer, then moved into drone work as more men from her region were killed or mobilised. “It wasn’t about whether I was ready,” she says. “It was about the fact that there were fewer people left.”
‼️ There are no official figures for how many women serve as drone operators, but instructors and unit commanders estimate that several dozen are now active or in advanced training, with more joining each month.
November 26, 2025 at 5:26 PM
‼️ There are no official figures for how many women serve as drone operators, but instructors and unit commanders estimate that several dozen are now active or in advanced training, with more joining each month.
‼️ Ukraine is becoming reliant on civilians to fill roles that once belonged to trained military personnel due to casualties. A short but intensive 15-day course is given to a trainee operator for frontline deployment, a turnaround that reflects the urgent need.
November 26, 2025 at 5:26 PM
‼️ Ukraine is becoming reliant on civilians to fill roles that once belonged to trained military personnel due to casualties. A short but intensive 15-day course is given to a trainee operator for frontline deployment, a turnaround that reflects the urgent need.
‼️ Women have been involved in Ukraine’s drone operations since the early months of the full-scale invasion, as casualties mount their presence has grown, particularly in FPV (first-person-view) attack units.
‼️ Three women talk about why they signed up for a brutal combat environment 👇
‼️ Three women talk about why they signed up for a brutal combat environment 👇
November 26, 2025 at 5:26 PM
‼️ Women have been involved in Ukraine’s drone operations since the early months of the full-scale invasion, as casualties mount their presence has grown, particularly in FPV (first-person-view) attack units.
‼️ Three women talk about why they signed up for a brutal combat environment 👇
‼️ Three women talk about why they signed up for a brutal combat environment 👇
Russia can always leave, then there is peace.
#SlavaUkraini 🇺🇦
#SlavaUkraini 🇺🇦
November 24, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Russia can always leave, then there is peace.
#SlavaUkraini 🇺🇦
#SlavaUkraini 🇺🇦
Salami tactics & Krasnov is facilitating 😡
November 23, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Salami tactics & Krasnov is facilitating 😡
