Pop-Up Army Shows How Splintering Ukraine Girds for War
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A training grenade arcs toward a group of nine men practicing combat with trench shovels. This is the Ukrainian government’s volunteer civilian army, getting a crash combat course as the country braces for war.
“I’m sure they won’t lay down their guns during the first fight,” Colonel Volodymyr Gornik, who lobbed the projectile, said at the base outside Kiev, the capital. “They won’t be cannon fodder.”