[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 101 (Friday, June 14, 2024)]
[House]
[Page H4097]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      HIGHLIGHTING UKRAINIAN WOMEN

  (Ms. KAPTUR asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. KAPTUR. Mr. Speaker, Ukraine is fighting valiantly to regain its 
freedom, but today I wish to highlight the sheroes of Ukraine, its 
women.
  These Ukrainian women work hard in the fields and farmsteads to feed 
their families, neighbors, and nation during war and during peace. 
These women labor day after day in the hot sun. By hand--you should see 
their hands--they plant precious seeds they carefully saved from last 
year using worn, simple implements, and small handheld shovels.
  They harvest with scythes and use simple pushcarts to pull their 
harvest by hand back to their small villages. Underequipped, they toil 
year after year as best they can against the forces of nature of the 
season of the hardscrabble circumstances of their dear lives.
  Along Ukraine's eastern front where Russia has brutally invaded and 
is systematically destroying villagers and villages, these courageous 
women are planting. They are planting between land mines. Who can even 
fathom their heroism?
  They feed their children, their families, their neighbors, their 
countrymen and -women. Let us celebrate these inspirational women of 
Ukraine, women of hope. Their extraordinary sheroism is perseverance. 
Their grace under pressure is defined by what U.S. President John F. 
Kennedy called ``pure raw courage.''

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