Members of Ukraine’s Territorial Defense Forces, volunteer military units of the Armed Forces, train close to Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, January 29, 2022. Dozens of civilians have been joining Ukraine’s army reserves in recent weeks amid fears about Russian invasion. (Photo by Efrem Lukatsky/AP Photo)
Ukrainians attend an open military training for civilians on a training range in Kiev, Ukraine, 30 January 2022. According to a survey conducted by the Kiev International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) from December 2021, 50.2 percent of Ukrainians said they would resist in case of a Russian military intervention into their city, town or village. Every third respondent to the poll said they were ready to engage in armed resistance, and 21.7 percent said they were ready to participate in civil resistance actions. (Photo by Sergey Dolzhenko/EPA/EFE)
A military instructor teaches civilians holding wooden replicas of Kalashnikov rifles, during a training session at an abandoned factory in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv on January 30, 2022. As fears grow of a potential invasion by Russian troops massed on Ukraine’s border, within the framework of the training there were classes on tactics, paramedics, training on the obstacle course. The training is conducted by instructors with combat experience, members of the public initiative “Total Resistance”. (Photo by Sergei Supinsky/AFP Photo)
A veteran of the Ukrainian National Guard Azov battalion conducts military exercises for civilians amid threat of Russian invasion in Kyiv, Ukraine on January 30, 2022. (Photo by Gleb Garanich/Reuters)
People take part in a military exercise for civilians conducted by veterans of the Ukrainian National Guard Azov battalion, amid threat of Russian invasion, in Kyiv, Ukraine on January 30, 2022. (Photo by Gleb Garanich/Reuters)
A veteran of the Ukrainian National Guard Azov battalion conducts military exercises for civilians amid threat of Russian invasion in Kyiv, Ukraine on January 30, 2022. (Photo by Gleb Garanich/Reuters)
A veteran of the Ukrainian National Guard Azov battalion conducts military exercises for civilians amid threat of Russian invasion in Kyiv, Ukraine on January 30, 2022. (Photo by Gleb Garanich/Reuters)
People take part in a military exercise for civilians conducted by veterans of the Ukrainian National Guard Azov battalion, amid threat of Russian invasion, in Kyiv, Ukraine on January 30, 2022. (Photo by Gleb Garanich/Reuters)
People take part in a military exercise for civilians conducted by veterans of the Ukrainian National Guard Azov battalion, amid threat of Russian invasion, in Kyiv, Ukraine on January 30, 2022. (Photo by Gleb Garanich/Reuters)
An Ukrainian serviceman checks the situation at the positions on a front line, not far from pro-Russian militants controlled city of Donetsk, Ukraine, 29 January 2022. Russia has recently strengthened its groups near the border with Ukraine and Belarus, with no signs of de-escalation, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said on 24 January 2022. (Photo by Stas Kozlyuk/EPA/EFE)
A woman walks by a building destroyed during fighting between the Ukrainian military and pro Russian separatists in 2014 on the outskirts of Slovyansk, in the Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Sunday, January 30, 2022. The U.S. sought to step up pressure on Russia over Ukraine on Sunday, promising to put Moscow on the defensive at the U.N. Security Council as lawmakers on Capitol Hill said they were nearing agreement on “the mother of all sanctions”. (Photo by Vadim Ghirda/AP Photo)
