‘I can do the same job as a man’: Ukraine’s first frontline female commander on war, grief – and her hope for the future
- Posted on October 22, 2024
- By The Guardian
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‘I can do the same job as a man’: Ukraine’s first frontline female commander on war, grief – and her hope for the future
Yulia Mykytenko leads a platoon of men in a reconnaissance and attack unit – and has already lost her husband, father and many friends in the devastating war. In her memoir, she writes that she was always destined for combat