Ms. Vynokur, 26, the hardware store clerk, turned out for the training with a friend after seeing an advertisement on Instagram. “What attracted me is this is only for women,” she said. “As women, we are all on the same level,” she said. Of serving in the military, she said: “Everybody understands the war won’t be over in a month. It does not draft women, though recently it has required that women with medical training register for the draft.

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Persons: Vynokur, ”, “ Locations: Kyiv