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‘It’s scary – so’s giving birth’: The female unit in Ukraine gunning down Russian drones | BBC News

  • October 15, 2024



‘It’s scary – so’s giving birth’: The female unit in Ukraine gunning down Russian drones | BBC News

The Witches of Bucha, as they call themselves, are a volunteer air defence unit made up almost entirely of women.

The unit is helping to protect Ukraine’s skies as more and more men are sent to the frontlines.

There are more drones to shoot down, too, often launched from Russia in waves to overwhelm the main defences ahead of a missile strike.

The night-time shifts allow the women to combine their work defending their country with day jobs as teachers, doctors – there’s even a manicurist.

Many say it’s a way of overcoming the powerlessness they felt when Russian forces occupied Bucha region at the start of the full-scale invasion.

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42 comments

  6. Yeah nah…the moron zelenzkyy has to stop exposing his military personnel in MSM photo ops.. he's putting them at risk of being targeted by the KGB and Russian special forces..he needs to stop broadcasting to the world Ukrains military tactics their using to defeat Russia on the battle ground who can use it to adjust they strategy to neutralize their advantage… hasn't the 🤡 heard of the slogan "LOOSE LIP'S SINK SHIPS"…im beginning to have doubts about which side this guy's on!!!.❤️🙏🇺🇲

  9. This is the army that Zelensky is selling the victory plan on ? Good lord. Just negotiate and stay a neutral country for the sake of what's left of the population.

  14. whoever trust this are dumb af =))))…. they need to get fired the guy who is makin this news and giving the directions… this shit cringe af. 😂🤣

  15. Russian Z-ombies are swarming here, posting BS and pipe dreams from their TV, while their Fuhrer suspends Russian population census due to staggering Russian casualties.

  17. Like some modern day dad‘s army 😂 give it up Ukraine, the men have gone, the future youth has gone now Zelensky wants to take the women too?

  20. Ukrainian women take care of yourself and your families, not one corrupt government including Zelensky not worth risking and giving your life for, motherland should make people happy and not take your lives, let corrupt Zelensky go to the battlefield and protect you or sit down for negotiating table, and not make money from the war, by emptying USA tax payers and stealing $billions from Usa tax payers aid for his palaces and yachts abroad.

  22. Oh my … UK and USA take a good look! Citizens – YES CITIZEN MILITIAS – WITH FULLY AUTOMATIC WEAPONS – AND MACHINE GUNS – TEACHERS EVEN …. Maybe you all need to take a que ! In our Country we would be labeled extremist, domestic terrorists – hunted down and maligned by our own government –

  30. Wtf is going on with there chest rig and helmet straps.

    Don't even get me started with how their hamdling those AKs. I'd rather surrender to the Russians.

    3:15 And are those WW1 Era Maxim Machine Guns?!?!

  33. "The thoughtful observer will find no cause for complaint in the Kremlin's challenge to American society. He will rather experience a certain gratitude to Providence which, by providing the American people with this implacable challenge has made their entire security as a nation dependent on their pulling themselves together and accepting the responsibilities of moral and political leadership that history plainly intended them to bear."

    George F Kennan – "American Diplomacy" (1951)

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