In war-torn Ukraine, women get taste of combat training In a gym in the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol, not far from the frontline with Russia-backed separatists, 20 women fall to the floor and pull back the rifle bolts of dummy Kalashnikovs. The free courses -dubbed "White angels" - were put together by police officers and former members of a far-right battalion who fought against the separatists in the east of the ex-Soviet country.