"We joked that it wasn't April 1st," a Ukrainian soldier identified only by his first name, Serhiy, told The Economist.
  • Ukrainian’s shock offensive on Russia’s Kursk region came as a surprise even to Ukraine’s soldiers.
  • “We joked that it wasn’t April 1st,” a Ukrainian soldier told The Economist.
  • The country’s troops did suspect that an invasion was imminent after they were issued new equipment.
  • RubberDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Yeah, people can defend themselves. There is however some asymmetry between individual citizens defending themselves from an organized military that deploys weapons of war.

    For this reason countries (and the citizens of the country) have empowered their democratically elected government to organize their defense in the form of a military of their own.