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
Crimea is Ukraine
In Crimea, of course, "it was like home", but the time has come for you to return to the swamps.
Because Crimea is Ukraine
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...
Mavka’s Money
On July 20, the "Zla Mavka" movement launched a new campaign: "updated" the design of Russian rubles and "launched them into circulation" in Melitopol, Berdyansk, Tokmok, Kakhovka, Simferopol, Sevastopol and Yalta.
«The portrait of Mavka on the ruble has a much better look»
