At present, the conflict between Russia and Ukraine continues. Due to the relationship between work and the daily reading of the British media, there is no doubt that the country's coverage is always one-sided and biased towards the Ukrainian side. In fact, the causes of any human war are always complex, but we can still learn some of the style of war from the selective coverage of the war in the British media, and understand what kind of living conditions ordinary people will be in during the war.
On the night of March 11, local time, the British "Sun" wrote an article introducing the attitude of Ukrainian women to the war, including women fighting with male soldiers on the front line, civilian women learning how to use AK-47s, and women organizing volunteers to make military equipment such as camouflage nets. The article contained several photos of front-line female soldiers released by Ukrainian officials on March 8, International Women's Day, which had a sense of Internet celebrity.
1. Fight alongside male soldiers on the front line
The Sun's interview was conducted in Ukraine, and a veteran who had served in eastern Ukraine and had experienced the vicissitudes of war told The Sun that in eastern Ukraine, women are like men when fighting, and female soldiers belong to the front line and fight alongside men.
2. Learn to use weapons
Kate Matchyshyn, 33, lives in Lviv, a remote part of western Ukraine, and a few weeks ago, before the war began, she was committed to the massage therapy business and never wanted to join the army.
Now, however, Kate is undergoing basic weapons training at a female veterans service center called The Warrior House, including how to shoot, reload and clean the AK-47 rifle.
Kate said that she certainly has an instinctive fear of receiving this kind of training, and it is even more difficult for women to "kill", she has never thought of doing this before, and she hopes that she will not have the opportunity to do so in the future. But she said she was a woman, and That Ukrainian women, like any woman in the world, had an instinct to protect their children, and that Ukrainian women had to learn to do something to protect them for the sake of their children.
Kate said that Ukrainian women are strong, such as her own hobby is boxing, and the enemy will find this. She wants to make those who dare to hurt Ukrainian children pay the price.
About 40 women were trained with Kate. Bohdana Ostapyk, a 23-year-old girl, coordinates the training.
Originally running a successful PR firm in Kiev with 14 clients in the agricultural machinery business, war broke out and Podana's company had to close, but only one of her 14 clients abandoned the contract. However, Podana herself is now moving back to her hometown in Voliff, where she has to contribute to the war.
Poldarna said the war could end in a matter of weeks, but it could also last years. If so, every Ukrainian should learn to use weapons, including women, of course.
3. Make camouflage nets
Bohdana Symiakevych, 25, who shares the same name as the 23-year-old girl who came before her, also currently lives in Lviv.
Podana is currently responsible for coordinating the mass production of camouflage nets at a local gunpowder shop. This shop has a long history and has been in operation since the 16th century.
Poldarna manages 500 volunteers here, sorting the tons of material donated by the work, tearing them into 5-centimeter-wide strips, tying them to plastic nets, and finally making a 12-meter-by-2-meter net, which the military uses to hide combat machines.
These 500 people can make about 30 nets a day. Poldarna told the Sun that they thanked Britain for their support and that she wanted to go on holiday in Crimea after the war. Podana's words have their own meaning, for Ukrainians, going to Crimea and going to the Maldives means differently.
4. Volunteer to sort relief materials
Natalia Dovhaliuk, 52, is a mother. Now she joins 600 volunteers, packing hats, gloves, scarves and other relief supplies into boxes around the clock and transporting them to thousands of refugee camps across Ukraine and neighboring countries.
Natalia said that Ukraine is at war, how can I sit at home and watch TV? I had to do something, so I came here.
Of course, in addition to the women above who worked hard to contribute to the war, many Ukrainian women fled abroad. Alena Semenova, 22, and her 40-year-old mother, Tetyana Tsybanyuk, who originally lived in Kiev, after the war began, the mother and daughter drove 2,500 kilometers from Lviv into Poland, passing through Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, and arriving in Calais, France, where they had planned to take a ferry to Britain to seek refuge, however, Workers working at the British border refused entry to the two on the grounds that they did not have a British visa.
Now, Tatiana's mother and daughter have been stranded in the car for 10 days, eating porridge only twice a day. Britain issued only 300 visas out of the 17,000 applications for entry to Ukrainian refugees, and Tatiana's mother and daughter were desperate.
Image source: theSun, BING
Edit: Zhang Zhang