Ukrainian parliamentarians are taking up arms and forming militias to defend their country.
“It was the first time in my life where I was even holding a gun,” Rudik said from Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital. “I haven’t fired [it] except for training, and I hope that I will never have to—but I need to know that I will be ready to protect my family, my house, my city and my country.
For her part, Rudik has assembled a militia composed of parliamentarians, party members and military veterans of the war against Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine, which broke out in 2014.
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