As Ukrainian and Russian envoys held peace talks, soldiers and volunteers in Kyiv were preparing for the worst.
KYIV, Ukraine — Along a highway flowing north from the capital, lined by businesses and tall apartment buildings, the Ukrainian fighters were taking no chances. The Russians were less than an hour’s drive up the road.
As Russia intensifies its military campaign, some Ukrainian civilians are taking up arms. Others are preparing food. Everyone, it seems, is doing something. Reports emerged of a large column of Russian military trucks and other weaponry and manpower moving toward Kyiv, presumably to reinforce the invasion forces in the northern portion of the highway.
At 5 p.m. a gray sedan pulled up to a checkpoint and a single gunshot was fired. Security forces pinned a man wearing black to the ground and dragged him out of the street and into a wooded area. Belinsky ordinarily works in advertising. He has some conflict experience but said he wanted to leave the most intense fighting to more experienced soldiers. He was offering his services during the daytime, building barricades and now petrol bombs.
If she could, she said, she’d be on the front line beside them. But her parents refused her demands that she be allowed to carry a weapon.
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