Defense Ministry: Women make up more than a third of contract personnel in military in 2016

“Since the beginning of the current year over 30,000 Ukrainian citizens have signed contracts with the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Over one third of these new contract servicepersons are women,” Dolhov said at a press briefing on Thursday, Ukrinform reports. He added that as of June 1, 2016 a total of  49,552 women served and worked in the Ukrainian Armed Forces.