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Canada’s “Boring” Aid That Keeps Ukrainian Women Soldiers Fighting

Uniforms that fit mean fewer preventable mistakes, fewer preventable injuries, and a little more endurance in a war that punishes friction

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Wes O'Donnell
Feb 17, 2026
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In 2024, Canada announced it would fund and manufacture properly fitted uniforms and protective gear for women serving in Ukraine. It sounded like the kind of story people file under “Canadians being nice, again,” then scroll past to get back to missiles and tanks. It aged fast.

By 2026, after years of drone-saturated trench warfare…

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