TDF.
“Zhaglo, a marketing researcher, spent the equivalent of $1,300 on the Zbroyar Z-15 carbine, which she learned how to use by attending a two-week sniper’s course.
The armed mom, a member of Ukraine’s Territorial Defense Forces, also shelled out more than $1,100 on a helmet, snow camouflage, flak jacket, ammo pouches, boots and a British army surplus uniform.
“I have got pickles and tins of fish, chicken and ham stashed beside the kitchen table, and lots and lots of ammunition,” Zhaglo told the Times.”
She supplies her own weapon, ammo, food, uniform and her training consisted of a two week course. This sound like a organized fighting force? Not against the Russian army. Sounds more like a group of vigilantes. They may be right, but their going to get hammered and the Ukraine government knows it.
wy69
Like the Sons of Liberty?
Rather die trying than kneeling down and getting it in the back of the head....
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/