Ukrainians are drawing attention as they pick up guns to defend their homeland against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
According to CNN on the 25th (local time), Yarina Arieva, 21, and her lover Svyatoslav Pursin, 24, got married on the 24th and immediately picked up a rifle to protect their homeland, Ukraine.
The couple decided to get married in a hurry after the siren of an air raid in Kiev rang out as Russia invaded Ukraine on the 23rd.
They were originally scheduled to get married in June, but they rushed the wedding because they couldn’t predict what would happen to Ukraine and their future.
The bride, Arieva, recalled that she was “terrified” at the wedding at St. Michael’s Monastery in Kiev.
After the wedding, “I will go out to fight to protect my country. We could die, but we just wanted to be together.”
After armed, they headed to the office of their party, the European Regiment.
“Now we are here, and we will do everything we can,” Arieva said.
Arieva introduced that some citizens who were not part of the National Guard were also given rifles, saying, “There are places where you can get rifles. He emphasized that if you sign the papers, you can defend your country.
A Ukrainian man living in Poland said he would go to fight for his country if the situation worsens.
“I will go and fight,” the man told CNN at the Psemisil train station, where Ukrainian refugees are coming to Poland. “I am ready to die for my country,” he said.
The man said, “I will legally fight for a liberal democracy. It is my duty,” he said.
Ukraine has banned all male citizens between the ages of 18 and 60 from leaving the country in response to a Russian invasion.
Former Ukrainian President Petro Porshenko holds up a rifle during an interview with CNN on the streets of Kiev, on the 25th (local time). © News1Former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko also took a rifle and took to the streets of Kiev with the National Guard.
In an interview with CNN that day, he said to Russian President Vladimir Putin that he was “crazy” and “he’s just a demon who came here to kill Ukrainians.”
“Everyone should know,” he said, adding that “Putin did not declare war on Ukraine, but on the whole world.”
He emphasized that his troops are located about two to three kilometers from battles between Russian and Ukrainian soldiers, and that the Ukrainians are ready to defend their country.
“It doesn’t matter how many soldiers he kills or how many missiles and nuclear weapons he has,” he said. “Ukrainians are free people with a great European future.”
Ukrainian lawmaker Olegsi Goncharenko, who had never served in the military, was also reported to have volunteered as a reserve force.
Rep. Goncharenko is not a reservist by law and is not eligible to join the National Guard, but he said that he applied to the reserve and was even given a rifle. “This law was supposed to be a time of peace,” he said, “but now is a special situation.”
(Washington = News 1)
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