"Russian President Vladimir Putin ... boasted that it would take only days for his powerful army to take Kyiv.
"Over the next month, enough Ukrainians found the will and means to resist him. They formed armed groups with whatever weapons they could lay their hands on. They fed and equipped fighters and billeted them in their homes. They shimmied up trees in search of cellphone reception to report on enemy movements. The result looked like something little seen in modern warfare—a domestic insurgency fused onto a traditional army....
"To a degree not fully appreciated, it was these citizen soldiers, teaming up with active-duty personnel, who turned the tide in the most consequential battle in Europe since World War II..."~ James Mason, from his article 'The Ragtag Army That Won the Battle of Kyiv and Saved Ukraine'
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