Meet Ukrainian couples training for war: Report 21Mar 2022 NEI 2022

March 21, 2022

Meet Ukrainian couples training for war

At a training center in the southern city of Odessa, young city professionals, who usually choose where to meet friends for a drink of coffee, learn how to handle weapons and provide emergency relief to battlefield wounds.

A generation of Ukrainians who only knew about the war from history books and grandparents’ stories have been forced to prepare for battle, and some choose to do so with partners with whom they formed their lives just weeks ago.

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“Everyone needs to know how to fight, how to make medicine, help their relatives or other people,” said Olga Moroza, a 26-year-old graphic designer who is studying civil defense with her friend Maxim, a 32-year-old sales manager. Yushchenko.

The couple, who were planning their wedding in the summer, were in a dimly lit facility providing basic training for 80 to 150 people a day, and everyone was trying to somehow prepare for the day as Russian troops approached the city. finally arrive.

Odessa, the picturesque Black Sea port, which handles more than half of Ukraine’s imports and exports, is considered a major strategic and symbolic goal of Russia’s forces. On February 24, Russia invaded a country described by the Kremlin as a “special military operation.”

In three weeks, the capital, Kyiv, and major cities such as Odessa are still unconquered, and Russian troops are facing strong resistance from Ukrainian forces and defiant civilian resistance. However, some cities, such as the city of Mariupol east of Odessa, have experienced bombing days.

The reality of the war has shocked the people of Odessa, a bustling city with design studios and coffee shops specializing in individual bean roasts, interspersed with historic architecture and port cranes and railway yards.

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“To be honest, it’s very difficult for us to understand that there is a war right now,” said Murager Sharipov, a 26-year-old Internet marketing agency employee. “Now people are dying somewhere, people are dying, and they are our people,” he said.

Although the civil protection training offered at the center is rudimentary, Yushchenko said it has helped him prepare mentally.

“Ukraine is one now, and people who are watching it now must understand that the war is here, but it can be in your home, it can be with your friends and in your country.”