“Witches of Bucha” combattono contro il terrore dei droni di Putin

As soon as the Russian tanks entered her town, “Calypso” went out and picked up a rifle. Her grandfather had taught her to shoot from the age of six, saying that one day she would need it.

Back in February 2022, she was a restaurant manager in her hometown of Bucha, the site of a massacre of Ukrainian civilians and prisoners of war by President Putin’s occupying troops.

In the early days of the war, she joined a small group of partisans hiding in the woods and venturing out to kill Russian soldiers. Today she is a platoon commander of the “Witches of Bucha”, an almost exclusively female infantry unit she founded that has risen from the ashes of occupation with a burning desire for vengeance.

“I saw what they did with our women and children. Oh my god,” Calypso says, referring to hundreds of cases of rape, torture and executions documented by investigators in Bucha. “And with everyone else. They killed a lot of civilians. I couldn’t stand by and watch, I wanted to help.”

The pain is etched on her face when she speaks of it, and she cannot bring herself to talk further about what she witnessed there. “I think every one [of the Russians] has to die. Every one of them,” she says

Must be an interesting story as it’s hidden behind the paywall. Sigh.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again- Ukrainian women rock!