Women’s Partisan Movement “Zla Mavka”

Zla Mavka is an all-female Ukrainian non-violent resistance movement that emerged in the occupied city of Melitopol in early 2023. After Moscow’s all-out invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 three brave Ukrainian women decided that they had had enough of living under occupation. It was time to resist. The group is named Mavka after the female spirit from...

Russians should look around,
Because they never know that Mavka is next to them. It must be scary for them to court, because who knows how their evening will end and what surprise awaits them after “nice communication”

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The female partisan movement "Zla Mavka" opposes Russia in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine

Zla Mavka’s news

Not all residents of the occupied territories of Ukraine have access to the true news of Ukraine and the world. Our Mavky launched a weekly newspaper with real news, which is distributed in the occupied cities. Yes, the Mavkas are fighting against Russian propaganda, with which the occupiers are trying to poison our people.

I don’t want flowers, I want my Ukraine

On the eve of March 8, "word of mouth" worked, and the previous action attracted a lot of attention. We knew that before March 8, the occupiers would give flowers to women on the streets, near shops: here, hold one tulip, hold a humanitarian flower. Even when March 8 had long passed, the girls continued to print the postcard "I don't want flowers, I want my Ukraine" and stick it in their cities. Actively joined our Telegram channel. The first was Berdyansk and the small towns around Melitopol, but I consider my victory the moment when the first girl from...

Christmas campaign “Occupant, beat feet!”

Our new Christmas promotion is "Occupant! Time to beat feet from Ukraine!". We continue to offer the occupiers safe ways to return to their "trans-Ural" lands. And skiing is a cool option. The Ukrainian Armed forces will not offer such a chance.