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"Zla Mavka": the resistance of Ukrainian women during the occupation. By seizing new territories, Russia also seeks to erase the national identity of local residents. It is important for the enemy that people give up their state in favor of another. After all, this, in particular, helps to maintain control...

‘I don’t want flowers, I want my Ukraine’: women’s acts of resistance against Russian occupation Zla Mavka movement – meaning ‘wicked forest spirit’ – drops fake rouble notes bearing pro-Ukrainian images and shares messages of solidarity. Read more

LEAFTERS, INTELLIGENCE AND KILLING OF OCCUPANTS. How do partisans operate in occupied territories?

The "Zla Mavka" resistance movement arose in March 2023 in occupied Melitopol. Its peculiarity is that it is exclusively feminine. Girls from the temporarily occupied territories united to show the Russians that "they are not welcome here." Society Crimea managed to communicate with the coordinator of "Zla Mavka" on...

In a lethal game of cat-and-mouse, Ukraine’s resistance movement defies the threat of jail, torture, and death to bomb, spraypaint, and spike moonshine while waiting for liberation More →