| Sumario: | This article examines how citizenship is reconsidered in Ukraine during the Russo-Ukraine war, from the gender perspective. We focus on the discursive construction of gendered citizenship in legislation and public discourse by focusing on laws, bills and public statements, speeches, and interviews by President Zelenskyy, key officials, parliamentarians, and opinion makers related to the topic of military mobilization and the roles of citizens in the context of war. We examine the construction of citizenship, focusing on the role of a male citizen, a female citizen, and the citizenship of LGBT + people. We show how participation in the military defense of the country becomes an important marker of the discursive construction of the image of a 'worthy citizen,' from which a considerable number of citizens are symbolically excluded. Our research aligns with many war studies claming that war time defense participation grants soldiers "full citizenship". Along with this, we discovered the paradoxical nature of this process: legislative and discursive consolidation of the roles of 'defenders' by men coexists with erosions of some patriarchal norms regarding participation of women and LGBT + people in the state defense.
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