Ordinary Ukrainians have begun training in firearms & urban guerrilla warfare - part of #Ukraine’s strategic defense plan to foster popular resistance if the Ukrainian military is overwhelmed if #Russia attacks
npr.org/2022/01/19/107…
npr.org/2022/01/19/107…
“Many of the volunteers are old enough to remember when Russians and Ukrainians were Soviet brothers…Ukrainians did not have such a strong separate identity….But now, thanks to Putin's military aggression and propaganda…a true Ukrainian nation is being forged”
#Ukraine #Russia
#Ukraine #Russia
"Why did they start this war? Because they don't even consider Ukraine as a proper nation…They think of Ukrainians & Belarusians as Russian, but a kind of second-class Russian… [T]hat's why they're always saying, 'Aw, come off it…with this independence stuff.' It’s offensive”
“my friends, my relatives, called me & say that we are fascists here, we kill everybody” B/c Russian propaganda says Ukrainians kill Russian speakers. “Utter fabrication.” Russian’s common in #Ukraine. “But now b/c of Putin’s aggressive tactics, people are switching to Ukrainian”
Marta, a Ukrainian doctor volunteering for military training to defend against #Russia invading: "We are in danger now, and not just danger for Ukraine, but danger for the whole democratic world, So I hope all together we can stop Putin.” #Ukraine #Democracy #StandWithUkraine🇺🇦
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