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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Ukrainian resistance isn't just on the front lines
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Caroline Houck
@carolinehouck
How did all of Ukraine including office workers, researchers, and artists mobilize so quickly? The 2014 Euromaidan protests and their response to Russia's incursion into Crimea provided "a template" to be "used again," one Kyiv resident told @j_kirby1:
vox.com
The Ukrainian resistance isnt just on the front lines
From feeding troops to answering hotlines, volunteers are mobilizing for the war effort.
7:59 AM · Mar 3, 2022
Caroline Houck
@carolinehouck
How did all of Ukraine including office workers, researchers, and artists mobilize so quickly? The 2014 Euromaidan protests and their response to Russia's incursion into Crimea provided "a template" to be "used again," one Kyiv resident told @j_kirby1:
vox.com
The Ukrainian resistance isnt just on the front lines
From feeding troops to answering hotlines, volunteers are mobilizing for the war effort.
7:59 AM · Mar 3, 2022
https://www.vox.com/22956752/ukraine-resistance-volunteers-russia-invasion
Tymofii Brik and his girlfriend spent Friday evening walking around their neighborhood in Kyiv, looking at the ground, at walls, and up at roofs. They were searching for special markings left behind by Russian saboteurs, who Ukrainian officials warned had infiltrated cities and may have been marking buildings to target for strikes.
It is not clear Russian forces actually marked buildings, but Brik said the local government had asked civilians to go out and search, and they felt they had to do something, even a small thing like this. Briks girlfriend, a climber, wanted to scale the side of their nine-story apartment building to investigate. Brik talked her down from that idea, as did the climbing buddies she texted for advice. It wasnt worth the risk, they said, and Brik and his girlfriend went inside without uncovering any signs of Russian saboteurs.
Russia invaded Ukraine a week ago, beginning a war that, to some Ukrainians, felt improbable until the first explosions went off. When the attacks began, the activation was immediate, said Brik, a sociologist and researcher at the Kyiv School of Economics, who spoke Sunday evening from the shower in his apartment bathroom in Kyiv, where he and his girlfriend were sheltering.
That activation happened all across Ukraine, drawing on some of the lessons of 2014, during the countrys Euromaidan uprising and, later, Russias annexation of Crimea and incursions into eastern Ukraine. Eight years later, civilians have signed up to fight, joining the Territorial Defense Forces to defend cities. But the resistance extends far beyond that. Citizens are using their skills and their contacts to fill in the gaps for the government and the armed forces, and are finding ways, many of them informal and improvised, to contribute to the war effort.
All the nation is involved, not only the army, said Viktoriya (who is being referred to by a pseudonym for safety reasons), who helps supply medicines to Kyiv.
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The Ukrainian resistance isn't just on the front lines (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Mar 2022
OP
It appears that Putin was planning and cultivating this invasion for many years.
Roisin Ni Fiachra
Mar 2022
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Roisin Ni Fiachra
(2,574 posts)1. It appears that Putin was planning and cultivating this invasion for many years.
The loving relationship between Putin and the MAGAT King included.
crickets
(25,979 posts)2. The resiliency and willing involvement of the public to do anything they can
in defending Ukraine is amazing. K&R