2024-02-20 15:35:00
In the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, there is resilience and a demand for more weapons
The Lychakiv Military Cemetery in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv was opened shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022. It is now a sea of hundreds of graves and flags of fallen soldiers.
Liubov told CNN that his son returned from abroad to volunteer for the fight. He was killed last month in the Donetsk region.
“He went to liberate our Ukraine,” he shouted. “He said, ‘Mom, I’m going to defend you.'”
“The boys have no weapons, they have nothing to fight with,” he said on a frigid winter morning. “Believe me, my son used to buy his uniform with his own money!”
Leading up to the second anniversary of the war, families struggle with the prolonged absence and often loss of loved ones.
This comes as parliament debates whether it is necessary to call for more troops to be mobilized to the front. Ukraine is under increasing pressure on the battlefield, where a lack of ammunition has become a crucial problem.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke candidly about this at the Munich Security Conference over the weekend.
“I tell you frankly that we do not have long-range weapons,” he told Amanpour. “Russia has them and we have very little of them.”
At a recruiting office for the Army’s Third Assault Brigade, CNN found Volodymyr, a 43-year-old builder, signing up for battle.
“Someone needs to defend our Ukraine,” he said.
When Sergeant Pavlo Dokin, who oversees recruiting in this office, was asked about morale, he said: “People must understand that we are fighting a strong enemy that should not be underestimated and that the general environment is tough for everyone. “But we have no choice, this is our home and we have nowhere to go.”
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