Kellogg’s daughter pushes back on her father’s call to mobilize women in Ukraine

Meaghan Mobbs has challenged her father’s call for Ukraine to mobilize women, arguing that women should serve as volunteers rather than face compulsory conscription.

“Women can fight, so why not? They should fight,” Mobbs said, quoting Keith Kellogg in an interview with Suspilne. But she added that women would first need proper training, equipment and weapons. Their service, she said, would not necessarily mean sitting in trenches.

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Women can fight, so why not? They should fight.

Mobbs pointed to roles where women could make a strong contribution, including medicine, logistics, marksmanship, intelligence gathering and reconnaissance. She said women could sometimes reach places men could not. At the same time, she said differences between men and women should not be ignored and opposed mandatory mobilization at this stage.

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That does not mean they necessarily have to sit in trenches.

Kellogg, speaking to the YouTube channel Naspravdi MAX, said he considered women’s military service an important part of society’s participation in war. He cited his own family, saying his daughter had graduated from a US military academy and served in Afghanistan, while his wife had been a paratrooper who took part in combat operations in Grenada.

Former Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov has also argued that military service should apply universally to men and women, citing Israel as an example. But Andrii Kovalenko, head of the Center for Countering Disinformation, said Ukraine was not mobilizing women and had no plans to do so. Kyrylo Budanov, head of the Ukrainian presidential office, also rejected the idea.

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Do I think women should be mobilized? Yes. They should, because they fight no worse than men.