Posted on 02/26/2022 6:09:20 PM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
When the Russian army marches through Ukraine, they may just be met a battalion made up of “babushkas.”
A group of older women has been volunteering in Ukraine since Russian separatists began conflict in the country eight years ago.
During the conflict between Ukranian nationalists and Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas, these women have helped move supplies, provide medical care and build a lookout tower. Now, the Russian army has invaded.
On Feb. 14, 79-year-old Valentyna Konstantinovska already knew a Russian invasion of a wider scale was a possibility. She said she would not hesitate to fight when it happened.
“I love my city, I am not leaving,” Konstantinovska said. “Putin can’t scare us off. Yes, it’s terrifying, but we will stand for our Ukraine until the very end.”
“I’ve been dreaming since 2014 to learn to use a gun, but was told ‘babushka, you are too old for that. You will be knocked off your feet with the recoil.'”
While Konstantinovska attended their training event for one reason “defending their motherland.”
Liudmyla Smahlenko,65, has been volunteering alongside Konstantinovska. She was further motivated to fight the separatists after she lost a relative to the conflict in 2015.
“We are already a babushka battalion.”
“In 2014, we dug trenches, set up field bases and we donate our pillows, blankets, plates, mugs – we bring them everything we can.
“You try to help the soldiers and they become like your kids. Then, one of them dies. A lot have gone now. it’s like your children dying every single time.”
Just like Konstantinovska, Smahlenko said she attended the training in preparation of defending her country.
“I am ready to fight if Russia does invade, even if I have to get into a fistfight with them,” Smahlenko said. “They are not our brothers.”
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It’s a fight to the bitter end.
It would be more effective to concede to Russia and force them to pay universal health care costs on all the old people instead of forcing them to fight the army 🤪
Russia will go broke
This invasion only has 8% public support back home, and Putin lied to the Russian soldiers (who thought they would be welcomed as liberators). This is going to be interesting
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Poor babushkas, they should be at home making golubtsi.
This smells of desperation and spells trouble for Creepy Joe Biden and his crew of confidence men and bag boys.
If Ukraine falls to the Russians just what will the Biden Regime use as an excuse for their failure? There is only one certainty in losing Ukraine and that is Biden and the despicable Democratic Party will blame everyone else.
In some places they were welcomed as liberators, such as Donbas. You will also notice that nobody has done anything in Lviv (Lvov) because they don’t care and won’t fight. But soldiers aren’t sent to the places where the people are friendly, they are sent to the places where people are not friendly.
1) Ukraine is winning
2) Ukraine is desperately arming grandmothers as a last ditch effort.
Why does anyone believe anything? Why do we care? This is a distraction, and we are being manipulated.
It would give a whole new meaning to the term: "mess kit"
They will be slaughtered for nothing.
What the hellation is “golubtsi?”
Where is their regular army? In Poland?
The First Casualty of War Is the Truth – The Current Western Propaganda for Ukraine Is Epic in Scale
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4041842/posts
I don’t even think they were welcomed by ethnic Russians in the East as liberators.
No wonder the Russian soldiers were all on tinder trying to meet Ukranian women.
Or, it is an expression of just how committed old women in Ukraine are in defending their country.
No, no... get with the program. Ukraine is winning BY desperately arming grandmothers as a last-ditch effort. Also, by bravely standing in front of tanks, saying rude words to the Russians, and posting clips of air combat video games from 2013.
Anyone who doubts this is a Putin toady.
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