Lesya Ganzha joined the Ukrainian army right at the start of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine on February 24, 2022, and was assigned to the infantry, serving in the Kyiv and Kharkiv regions.
“Unfortunately, the company commander is categorically anti-women,” said Ganzha, adding that she had wanted to switch to air reconnaissance in a different brigade of the army.
“I joined the army to defend Ukraine, to go into combat,” she stressed. She told DW she was repeatedly offered assignments in the hinterland, but finally managed to get into the air reconnaissance unit of a brigade in Donetsk.
