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Women and LGBTQ Warriors on the Front Lines in Ukraine [1]
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Date: 2022-08-16
Putin’s jock sniffers from Donald Trump to Tucker Carlson have for years been claiming that women and gays in the military would compromise our combat effectiveness. All over social media neo-nazis and wannabe Fascists opined about the weakness of western ‘woke’ militaries compared to Putin’s invincible macho he-man army.
So how is it that the Ukrainian army with women and LGBTQ fighters on the front lines is making mincemeat out of Putin’s fearsome thugs?
x Women now account for about 22% of #Ukraine’s military, a climb that began with the Russian-backed war in the east starting in 2014 but has soared since #Russia’s full-scale invasion four months ago, according to Kateryna Pryimak, co-founder of #Ukrainian Women Veteran Movement. pic.twitter.com/es0gYcWR1U — Tonya Levchuk (@TonyaLevchuk) July 5, 2022
And if that’s not enough to make alt-right Putin worshipers' heads explode… The Ukrainian commander in chief that is outsmarting, out-strategizing, and in general, kicking their hero Putin’s ass is a Jewish comedian, now President of Ukraine.
x This is Lt. Liubov Plaksiuk, she is a commander of an artillery unit at Ukraine's Armed Forces.
She specializes in Giantsynt 152-mm systems.
She also has more courage than morally bankrupt Kissingers and Chomskys taken together. pic.twitter.com/qYYjPIEToi — Evgen Vorobiov 🇺🇦 (@vorobyov) May 24, 2022
x Olha Chumak, 38, wanted to be a fashion designer before the war.
Now she is a grenade launcher operator with the Marines. Her husband Oleksandr was KIA recently. They have two sons.
Olha is very brave. She continues to defend Ukraine at the frontlines. @armyinformcomua pic.twitter.com/8CPPOzpeHZ — Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) August 15, 2022
x This is Viktor Pylypenko. He's fighting russian invaders in the 🇺🇦 72th Brigade (aka “Black Zaporizhians”) and was promoted to Jr Sergeant.
An openly gay man, Viktor founded and leads the “Ukrainian LGBT Soldiers and our Allies” association to advocate for rights of 🏳️🌈 defenders. pic.twitter.com/plieHmpNUj — Evgen Vorobiov 🇺🇦 (@vorobyov) July 26, 2022
x 1/2 The combat medic, sergeant Inna Derusova is the first military woman awarded with the highest state award “Hero of Ukraine”. Since 2015, she had been on the front line saving the lives of soldiers and training civilian medics who came to war. pic.twitter.com/YtnNTkQjg1 — Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance (@Uinp_gov_ua) March 15, 2022
x Ukrainian women-warriors tell the dictator's murderers "for every child, woman, old man, ruined house, street, even barn, we will shoot you like rabid dogs."
These brave women are fighting for their homeland, and their children's future.
https://t.co/ecVLKGcKct — Gabe Valentine (@poetguygabe) March 7, 2022
Southern Ukraine was the homeland of the Amazon warriors. Ukrainian women are living up to the heritage of their warrior ancestors.
Слава Україні!
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