Defending Ukraine

From the DW:
"Enlisting to defend Ukraine"

As the crisis in Crimea continues, Ukrainian men and women are increasingly signing up for so-called volunteer defense forces. They want to back up their country's army should there indeed be war with Russia. Ukraine has since November when protests began against former president Victor Yanukovych, who later bowed to the pressure and fled to Russia. At his request, armed Russian troops descended on the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea to "protect the ethnic Russian community there," according to Moscow. For Ukraine this show of force was a declaration of war, setting many Ukrainians on the defensive. As a result, young Ukrainians are flooding army recruitment centers. Hundreds of self-declared defense forces have sprung up around the country. "The National Guards arrive when the army is not effective," Igor Didkovskiy, coordinator of The National Guards of Ukraine said. "We have 3,000 people now from all of Ukraine. We have total mobilization in recruiting centers." Men and women alike are preparing for grave consequences.

^ This is the real story throughout all of this: what the Ukrainian people are doing while Russia occupies part of their country. It has the same feeling of reading about the Nazi occupations during World War 2. While these people are currently not in Russian-occupied Ukraine it is safe to say that that could change at a moment's notice and these men and women are willing to risk everything to make sure that doesn't happen. ^

http://www.dw.de/enlisting-to-defend-ukraine/a-17503101