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In Denmark, sculptures about the war by Ukrainian artist Maria Kulikovska were destroyed at exhibition
News - 23 December 2025

In Denmark, sculptures about the war by Ukrainian artist Maria Kulikovska were destroyed at exhibition

Commenting on the events in Copenhagen, Kulikovska explained that she sees the same logic in them – the destruction of art as a form of political pressure and an attack on a defenseless body. She understands that the sculptures were intentionally broken and views their destruction as the beginning of a period of mourning and a shift toward a more radical artistic language

Ukrainian Armed Forces appoint gender advisor: What will she do?
News - 07 March 2025

Ukrainian Armed Forces appoint gender advisor: What will she do?

Oksana Hryhorieva is a public figure, former gender advisor to the Command of the Land Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and a candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences. She previously served as the Dean of the Faculty of Enterprise Security at the European University, headed the Youth Centre of the Atlantic Council of Ukraine, and the Dniprovec. Success and Development Charitable Foundation

126 Ukrainian women are in Russian captivity, most of them civilians
News - 04 July 2023

126 Ukrainian women are in Russian captivity, most of them civilians

Twenty-three women in captivity have children: 14 military women have 23 children, and nine civilians have 15

At the human rights conference Right Sector threatened LGBT-activists and promised to disrupt KyivPride
News - 31 May 2017

At the human rights conference Right Sector threatened LGBT-activists and promised to disrupt KyivPride

Olga Kotsko, representative of the Right Sector political party, called LGBT-activists “perverts” and “pedophiles”

In Uzhhorod nationalists attacked the rally for women’s rights and against violence
News - 09 March 2017

In Uzhhorod nationalists attacked the rally for women’s rights and against violence

Participants were told that their place is in the kitchen

Vice PM: 17,000 female soldiers serve in Ukrainian Armed Forces
News - 16 September 2016

Vice PM: 17,000 female soldiers serve in Ukrainian Armed Forces

17,000 women currently serve in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, what makes 8.5% of a general number of the armed forces personnel.