“My son has three daughters, they must have a future.” As Russian forces press on Kyiv, Ukraine’s Territorial Defense Forces stand ready to fight. They are not professional soldiers, but civilians called up as reservists to join the military forces.
some soldiers and some civilians, in a trench dug in a cemetery in the heart of the city. Some had died from the war, others of natural causes.civilians from towns northwest of the capital making their way toward Kyiv on Wednesday through a humanitarian corridor. With sporadic gunfire echoing behind them, firefighters dragged an elderly man to safety in a wheelbarrow, a child gripped the hand of a helping soldier, and a woman inched her way along, cradling a fluffy cat inside her winter coat.
Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko said Thursday that about 2 million people — half the residents of the Ukrainian capital’s metropolitan area — have left the city, which has become virtually a a fortress. Civilian authorities reported Russian bombing overnight in the suburbs of Kyiv, and two other cities, as well as artillery fire on Kharkiv, the country’s second largest city, in the east.in firepower, despite facing fierce Ukrainian resistance and global financial pressure aimed at crippling its economy.
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