A senior US administration official told reporters on a call Friday that Russia had only committed half of the troops it had massed around Ukraine. If the initial Russian plan was to take over key cities and force the central government to surrender or be overthrown, it has largely failed. A Ukrainian military that has grown to more than 220,000 active-duty soldiers, plus tens of thousands more National Guard troops, police, reservists, and Territorial Defense brigades of civilian volunteers is still dwarfed by Russia's million-person-strong military.
The Ukrainians have defeated the Russian forces trying to get to the seat of government and the office of Zelensky.
It is the third day when we all made sure that the Ukrainian spirit is strong.
Ukrainians fought pitched battles across the country as Russian forces bombarded the cities with air strikes and fire. Zelensky said that the fate of the Ukrainian nation is being decided right now.
Alexander, a 50-year-old man with an American-made shotgun, was guarding a checkpoint on the outskirts of Kyiv on Saturday. He moved to eastern Ukraine when he was 8 years old.
I said that I was a Ukrainian because I saw what Russia was trying to do with the country.
The former owner of a women's fashion shop described his new profession as a hunter of Russian inhabitants.
Alexander had never fought in a war or fired a gun before this week, but he said he was ready to defend his country of birth. We will fight if it is anything less than a tank.
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