According to the Defense Ministry, about 10 percent of all service personnel in the Ukrainian Armed Forces are women. (file photo)
RFE: First Class Of Girls Enrolled At Kyiv Military School
Twenty young women started classes at Kyiv’s prestigious Ivan Bohun Military High School in Ukraine on September 1 for the first time ever.
"For the first time in its history, girls will be trained here who, during their entrance examinations, won the opportunity to wear the high rank of Lyceum student of the Ivan Bohun Military Lyceum," said Major-General Ihor Hordiychuk, the institution’s principal, in a greeting.
He noted that admissions standards for the school's 300 students were identical for boys and girls, based on their “knowledge, their physical training, and their desire to become officers in the Armed Forces of Ukraine.”
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WNU Editor: Long overdue.
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