Posted on 02/25/2022 7:47:12 PM PST by xxqqzz
As Russian forces advance on Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, people all over the country are being urged by officials — and sometimes compelled by necessity — to fight back in whatever ways they can.
The country’s former president is patrolling the city streets with a civilian defense force, armed with an AK-47. Civilians have been called to find their own weapons and make molotov cocktails — a type of crude, homemade explosive named, mockingly, after a former Soviet foreign minister.
Roughly 18,000 weapons have already been distributed in the Kyiv region, according to the government. At the country’s borders, Ukrainian guards have been stopping vehicles, looking for men between the ages of 18 and 60 who can help in the fight.
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There ya go!
Which makes them valid targets for the Russians. Putin doesn't seem to be targeting civilians.
Then why do they never refer to Warsaw as, “Warszawa”?
That sure doesn’t look like we’re in Kansas anymore...
That sure doesn’t look like we’re in Kansas anymore...
“Buckle your seatbelt Dorothy, ‘cause Kansas is going bye-bye!”
If sticking with the original is your criterium, than “the last 400 years” is Johnnie come lately” for that city. It was founded more than 1500 years ago. About 400 years later St Cyril and his brother gifted them an alphabet so that spelling its name could commence. And it wasn’t the Latin alphabet! So neither modern transliteration, Kyiv, not Kiev, can be ‘original.’ But as the Moscow based originators of the future Russian language branch of the Nordic Rus invaders didn’t appear in history until nearly 700 years after this city’s founding and a few hundred after having its name written down, use of Kiev is mere late Latinized tsarist propaganda regarding the name of Kив.
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