“Angry Mavkas”: the women leading the resistance in Russian-occupied Ukraine

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"... In Ukraine the mavka is a folkloric figure, a local variation of the Rusalka figure in Slavic mythology: a female similar to an amazon, who is associated with natural watercourses. In one popular narrative of Ukrainian peasants, mavkas were women who died by drowning; in another version, they were those who were never baptised. They are first mentioned in the Eneida, a parody of Virgil's work published in the late 18th century by Ivan Kotliarevsky, one of the fathers of modern Ukrainian literature. ..."

“Angry Mavkas”: the women leading the resistance in Russian-occupied Ukraine - VoxEurop Distributing pro-Ukrainian literature, spraying graffiti, vandalising Russian symbols, reporting the movements of the occupiers to the Ukrainian army – this is the story of the Zlaja Mavka, a female resistance movement in Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine.

"I don't want your flowers, I want my Ukraine"