Author: Katie Livingstone

Katie Livingstone is a freelance journalist based in Kyiv, Ukraine. She was a Fulbright fellow in Albania and holds a master’s in gender studies from Central European University in Budapest. Soon after completing her master’s degree at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in 2021, she moved to Ukraine and has covered the war since Russia’s full-scale invasion began.

Ukraine’s Frontline Mothers

More and more women have joined the ranks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF) since the country’s large-scale mobilization rapidly rolled out this past year, switching up the traditional wartime narrative that portrays women, and mothers with children especially, as victims of war instead of as agents of change.

(This article originally appears in the Spring 2023 issue of Ms. Join the Ms. community today and you’ll get the issue delivered straight to your mailbox!)