The fighters are civilians from all walks of Ukrainian society, including IT workers, bankers, doctors, taxi drivers, schoolteachers, shopkeepers, and more. They gather to train one day each weekend. Thousands - from Kharkiv in the east to Lviv in the west - in recent months have joined the forces, which are composed of about 80,000 volunteers in 25 separate brigades, or one for every region of Ukraine as well as the country’s capital city. A poll done this month by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology found that more than 50% of Ukrainians - some 20 million of them - are ready to resist in one way or another if Russia launches a new invasion, while more than 33%, or roughly 13 million people, would be willing to join in armed resistance. Such a move would be an attempt to alter the country’s increasing alliance with the West and could spark a land war of the likes not seen in Europe since 1945. The war games involving civilian volunteers demonstrate the lengths to which Ukrainians are prepared to go if President Vladimir Putin decides to attack. “I am a compassionate, empathetic person, but…” After taking a beat, she finished: “I would kill. I will resist,” Yuzkiv, a 51-year-old doctor, wife, and mother of three who prefers gardening to unconventional warfare training, told BuzzFeed News. “I know for sure that I will not leave Ukraine. And fighters like Yuzkiv fear they could soon find themselves engaged in guerrilla warfare with highly trained soldiers under Moscow’s command. Russia is massing some 100,000 troops and military equipment around Ukraine, possibly mobilizing 75,000 reservists to join them, and threatening its neighbor with another large-scale attack unless the Kremlin’s demands for the US and NATO to abandon support for Kyiv are met.
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The ambush was part of a series of war games held Saturday - on the grounds of an abandoned factory outside Kyiv - by veteran instructors overseeing a ragtag group of Ukrainian volunteers.
But within seconds, she was shot and killed, too. A Russian team of saboteurs gunned down four of Yuzkiv’s comrades. Then, without warning, an ambush came from behind the pine trees. Rifles at the ready and communicating with hand signals and whispers, they scanned their surroundings for the enemy stalking them in the nearby bushes. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.KYIV - Falling snow clouded Marta Yuzkiv’s line of sight as she moved in formation with seven other fighters down a narrow road. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior.
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