Resilience is the Superpower of Ukraine’s Women

Speaking via videolink to the European Council’s Women in Conflicts conference earlier, the Ukrainian first lady says: “Every life in our country is broken, every life is divided into before and after.”

“Of course our war has got a woman’s face because there are two million more women than men in Ukraine. But I am absolutely sure Ukrainian women cannot be called victims, we all have our own stories of resistance,” she says.

“Most of our doctors and nurses are women, they are fighting, they are treating those who are wounded, they are looking after women in labour, they are teachers, delivering lessons from shelters or sometimes from abroad.”

The majority of social workers and civil servants are women and are continuing to work, she says, while female volunteers are still working on the front line. Half of the country’s entrepreneurs are women, keeping the economy afloat, Zelenska says, and “our Ukrainian mothers managed to cross thousands of kilometres to save their children.”

BBC /Shakirat Sadiq