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Women from a Kyiv suburb create an all-female volunteer air defense unit. They say it’s helped them deal with the trauma of a 2022 massacre by Russian troops.

Tetiana, a member of the female anti-drone mobile air defence unit known as the “Bucha Witches,” loads the Maxim machine gun during the training in Kyiv region, Ukraine on November 9, 2024.

Oksana Parafeniuk for NPR


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Tetiana, a member of the female anti-drone mobile air defence unit known as the “Bucha Witches,” loads the Maxim machine gun during the training in Kyiv region, Ukraine on November 9, 2024.

Oksana Parafeniuk for NPR



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