When Russia began its invasion of Ukraine last week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called on the nation’s citizens to take up arms to defend themselves. Hanna Maliar, the country’s deputy defense minister, urged civilians to help “resist” invasion forces by making Molotov cocktails.
And many Ukrainians have done just that, filling milk crates with the makeshift bottle bombs, welding antitank blockades and grabbing Kalashnikovs as they patrol the streets with the Ukrainian Territorial Defense Forces, which are believed to have more than 130,000 volunteers.
The war has already taken its toll. At least 102 civilians in Ukraine have been killed since Russia launched its invasion last Thursday, with more than 300 others injured, United Nations human rights chief Michelle Bachelet said Monday, but the actual figure is feared to be “considerably higher.”
And according to the U.N., more than 500,000 Ukrainians have fled the country since Russia’s attack began.
Photos of civilian efforts in Ukraine
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