Ukrainian mom buys powerful hunting rifle, vows to ‘fight for Kiev’

“Resistance works...”

Very briefly and at what cost? The article you gave me was for WW II and happened about 80 years ago. All the military force nations have grown up a lot since then.

An estimated 500,000 French men and women worked for the Resistance during Germany’s occupation of France. Resistance workers carried out thousands of acts of sabotage against the German occupiers. The risks were great. More than 90,000 resisters were killed, tortured or deported by the Germans. That’s roughly 18% of the entire resistance. And the tactics and control factors have changed in the 80 years.

I don’t think losing about one fifth of your force that are not trained, armed, and have nothing but their efforts to succeed against trained armed mobile and technology capacity far beyond the TDF, is a winnable venture and foolhardy at the worst...which is going to happen. So allowing people to commit suicide is not quite right.

wy69

This sound like a organized fighting force? Not against the Russian army. Sounds more like a group of vigilantes.

Ukraine has a standing army of 255,000. The National Guard of Ukraine serves as the main reserve component of the Armed Forces of Ukraine numbering 250,000. The Ukrainian Territorial Defense Forces, of which this mom is a member, is a government-sponsored civilian training program.

Backed by the Russian threat, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania all have programs to encourage some civilians to own rifles and formal training to fight as partisans after the occupation.

For example, almost every weekend in Estonia, the Self-Defense Forces Defense League is practicing in the woods for volunteers, down to the production of improvised explosive devices (IEDs), the weapons that plagued the U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Citizenship defense is not unfamiliar in Ukraine. Volunteer brigades formed the backbone of the armed forces in the east in 2014, when Ukrainian troops were in turmoil, the first year of the war with Russian separatists.

https://www.anandmarket.in/training-civilians-ukraine-nurtures-a-resistance-in-waiting/

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