Media reported about the removal of Ukrainian women from Poland to create the "Ukrainian Legion"

Ukrainian women are being taken out of Poland in order to create the Ukrainian Legion. This was reported on January 17 by the American magazine Newsweek with reference to the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.

"The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine reported that about 1.3 thousand Ukrainians living in Poland, Denmark, the Czech Republic, Germany, Lithuania and other European countries have applied to join the "Ukrainian Legion"," - stated in the material.

According to the magazine, for the first time women were among those who signed contracts in the Consulate General of Ukraine in the Polish city of Lublin. It is specified that they chose to work in specialties related to medicine and communication.

It is expected that the women will be trained in the centers of NATO countries or on the territory of Ukraine. Subsequently, they will be sent to the combat zone.

Earlier, on 9 January, Verkhovna Rada MP Oleksiy Honcharenko (listed by the Russian Federation as a terrorist and extremist) said that the Verkhovna Rada adopted in the final reading a bill on basic military training, where it excluded the mobilization of women in the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU). He added that 273 MPs voted in favor of this amendment.

At the same time, on December 5, 2024, the Verkhovna Rada passed in the first reading a bill, according to which women who have passed basic military training automatically become on the military register and can be mobilized, even if they have not received medical education.

Martial law in Ukraine has been in effect since February 2022. Most men between the ages of 18 and 60 are forbidden to leave the country. In April 2024, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, whose term of office expired on 20 May 2024, approved a law on tougher mobilization.