Scania is training Ukrainian women to drive trucks as the country starts to run out of men

Published 26 August 2024 at 09.47

Foreign. The Swedish industrial giant Scania is training Ukrainian women to drive trucks to increase Ukraine's endurance in the war against Russia.

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In the past, truck driving was a male-dominated work in Ukraine but as a result of the war, the country has started to have a shortage of men, and therefore women are now being trained in the profession.

– It is believed that it is a heavy job because only men do it. But I've been driving for a while now and there's nothing heavy about this, says one of the women to Radio Free Europe.

Even within the electricians' guild, women are starting to make an entrance.

– With all these men who have gone to war, vacancies arose, and I got the job, Julia Vovtjenko, one of the new electricians, told RFE.