Female Russian pilots as canon fodder...
What a waste ...Putin's 'angels of death': Female military pilots who graduated amid Ukraine invasion join Russian air force
The newly mobilised women are trained in using specialised war planes
Vladimir Putin has unleashed his 'angels of deaths' - newly graduated women military pilots now in the Russian air force.
The pilots were seen at a weekend passing out parade in Krasnodar after they had qualified from Serov Higher Military Aviation School.
Putin's defence minister Sergei Shoigu said the female pilots were 'gloriously' continuing a tradition.
He said: 'You are a reference point and an example for those girls who will follow you.'
The newly mobilised women are trained in using strategic nuclear bomber and transport planes.
Yes, but only if they survive....'All these girls will soon get married and go to 'serve' on maternity leave,' stormed one critic.
There are not many females anyway, the huge majority of pilots are still men and not women...This year Mr Shoigu selected one female applicant Anna Shcherbakova, from Perm, who had initially been refused.
She was among 400 pilots, 16 of them female, to graduate.
