This is Business Daily from the BBC World Service.

I'm Marie Keyworth and to Mark International Women's Day,

we're bringing you the story of one woman from Ukraine

as her professional and personal life are turned upside down.

I've been waiting for this love for 30 years.

Now I'm enjoying the most perfect relationship in the world.

Russian shelling might break Ukraine's will to fight, but not yet.

I'm staying, no matter what.

We hear how women are adapting their day jobs to help with Ukraine's war effort.

Ukrainian women are brave and strong, and a lot of women are now voluntary and working hard,

combining this with keeping an eye on their children, housing and so on.

And as men are banned from leaving the country, we look at the choice facing Ukrainian women.

If he joins the army, I will join too.

Because I don't know what my life would look like without him.

That's in today's Business Daily.

This is the sound of the siren.

I woke up to air raid siren yesterday at 3 a.m.

That's how the day actually has started.

But after that, I managed to get a couple of hours of sleep.

But every day starts early in the morning.

Tatiana Haiduk is hauled up in her apartment as the Russian military assault on her country continues.

Mornings are calmer in our part of the country.

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