Since 1987, Women’s History Month has been celebrated in March to recognize the contribution of women in history, culture, and society. Ironically, this year’s theme is “Women Providing Healing, Promoting Hope.” Right now, no women are making history more than those in Ukraine.

While invaders annihilate their families, homeland, and heritage, the women of Ukraine are providing healing, promoting hope, and fighting back with uncompromising determination, each in their own way. They are packing supplies, making camouflage netting, and building barriers with tires. They are writing and circulating educational literature from children’s hygiene in bombshells to the proper length of fingernails for firing weapons.

During times of peace, women made up 15% of Ukraine’s armed forces. Once the invasion began, the numbers swelled with civilian women. Under fire, many have donated blood for the wounded and searched for bodies among the rubble of shelled hospitals and homes.

Some of the most poignant footage we’ve seen from Ukraine has been women evacuating children. Many don’t want to leave their husbands, fathers, and brothers behind, but their first allegiance is protecting children, and not just their own children. We’ve seen women young and old carrying infants and toddlers dozens of miles to an unknown future. They’ve been singing songs and playing games with kids to calm their fears while their own fears are all but paralyzing.

Over 20% of the Ukrainian parliament is women who have stood their ground showing brave leadership and joining their president in resisting fear and holding their ground regardless of the consequences. Their very actions have provided healing and promoted hope.

Over the next three months, an estimated 80,000 Ukrainian women will give birth, some in bomb shelters, some in the home of a stranger, some on the side of a bomb-torn street. Yet, even through war, the Ukrainian women will continue to provide healing, promote hope, and ensure that life will go on.