A service member of the Ukrainian armed forces is seen at combat positions near the line of separation from Russian-backed rebels in the Donetsk region, Ukraine on February 6, 2022. (Photo by Oleksandr Klymenko/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 February 6, 2022. (Photo by Gleb Garanich/Reuters)





Civilians participate in a beginners combat and survival training course run by instructors from the Ukraine Territorial Defence units at a school in a Obukhiv on February 06, 2022 in Kyiv, Ukraine. Across Ukraine, civilians are participating in such groups to receive basic combat, medical and survival training. While Ukrainian officials have acknowledged the country has little chance to fend off a full Russian invasion, Russian occupation troops would likely face a deep-rooted, decentralized and prolonged insurgency. Russia has amassed tens of thousands of troops on its border to Ukraine. (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images)





Ukrainians attend an open military training for civilians on a training range in Kiev, Ukraine, 06 February 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/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Volunteers and veterans with the Ukrainian Territorial Defense Forces gathered for a training session at an abandoned youth center on February 5, 2022 in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine. Increasing tension with Russia, which has amassed thousands of troops along the Ukrainian border, has driven many residents to volunteer in the war effort. (Photo by Michael Robinson Chavez/The Washington Post)





Volunteers and veterans with the Ukrainian Territorial Defense Forces gathered for a training session at an abandoned youth center on February 5, 2022 in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine. (Photo by Michael Robinson Chavez/The Washington Post)





Volunteers and veterans with the Ukrainian Territorial Defense Forces gathered for a training session at an abandoned youth center on February 5, 2022 in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine. (Photo by Michael Robinson Chavez/The Washington Post)





Rumiya Romanenko, 59, trains with a wooden rifle during a training session at an abandoned youth center on February 5, 2022 in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine. (Photo by Michael Robinson Chavez/The Washington Post)





Volunteers and veterans with the Ukrainian Territorial Defense Forces get a briefing on various types of mine, many of them illegal under international law, that they say the Russians deploy, during a training session at an abandoned youth center on February 5, 2022 in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine. (Photo by Michael Robinson Chavez/The Washington Post)





Dmytro Myhas, helps his wife Olana with her weapon during a training session on February 5, 2022 outside of Kyiv, Ukraine. (Photo by Michael Robinson Chavez/The Washington Post)





A Ukrainian service member walks on the front line at the industrial zone of government-held town of Avdiyivka in Donetsk region, Ukraine on February 9, 2022. (Photo by Gleb Garanich/Reuters)





The dress rehearsal of the Cinderella opera by French composer Jules Massenet takes place on the stage of the Mykola Lysenko National Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre (Skhid Opera), Kharkiv, northeastern Ukraine on February 8, 2022. (Photo by Ukrinform/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Service members of the Ukrainian Armed Forces take part in military drills in the Kherson region, Ukraine, in this handout picture released February 10, 2022. (Photo by Ukrainian Armed Forces Press Service/Handout via Reuters)





Ukrainian army press officer Alena (R), 32, and Sgt. Natacha take a break in the dining room on February 9, 2022 in Pisky, Ukraine. Tensions between the NATO military alliance and Russia are intensifying due to Russia's move of tens of thousands of troops as well as heavy weapons to the Ukrainian border, causing international fears of a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by Gaelle Girbes/Getty Images)





A Ukrainian serviceman handles large caliber ammunitions for armored fighting vehicles mounted weapons during an exercise in a Joint Forces Operation controlled area in the Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Thursday, February 10, 2022. A peace agreement for the separatist conflict in eastern Ukraine that has never quite ended is back in the spotlight amid a Russian military buildup near the country's borders and rising tensions about whether Moscow will invade. (Photo by Vadim Ghirda/AP Photo)





A construction worker is backdropped by the yellow-blue colored “Ukraine” road sign as the walks over broken pavement in a repairs area outside the crossing point from Ukrainian government to pro-Russian separatists controlled territory in Stanytsia Luhanska, the only crossing point which is open daily, in the Luhansk region, eastern Ukraine, Friday, February 11, 2022. The chill of a Cold War hung over Eastern Europe again Friday, with Russian maneuvers and drills close to Ukraine, and NATO's chief boosting troop morale on the Black Sea. (Photo by Vadim Ghirda/AP Photo)





Ukrainians attend a rally in central Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, February 12, 2022, during a protest against the potential escalation of the tension between Russia and Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Joe Biden are to hold a high-stakes telephone call on Saturday as tensions over a possibility imminent invasion of Ukraine escalated sharply and the U.S. announced plans to evacuate its embassy in the Ukrainian capital. (Photo by Efrem Lukatsky/AP Photo)





A road sign with name of small city New York, pictured not far from a front line near pro-Russian militants controlled city of Donetsk, Ukraine, 12 February 2022. Since 2014 locals adapted to live close to the front line what bring some restrictions to their life. The settlement first appeared on maps in 1846 under its original name New York. In 1951 was renamed to Novgorodskoye due to the worsening of relations of USSR with USA was. In July of 2021 Ukrainian Parliament returned it's old name New York. (Photo by Stanislav Kozliuk/EPA/EFE)





An instructor shows a woman how to use a Kalashnikov assault rifle, as members of a Ukrainian far-right group train, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, February 13, 2022. Russia denies it intends to invade but has massed well over 100,000 troops near the Ukrainian border and has sent troops to exercises in neighboring Belarus, encircling Ukraine on three sides. U.S. officials say Russia's buildup of firepower has reached the point where it could invade on short notice. (Photo by Efrem Lukatsky/AP Photo)





A view of Ukraine's national flag waves above the capital with the Motherland Monument on the right, in Kyiv Sunday, February 13, 2022. Some airlines have halted or diverted flights to Ukraine amid heightened fears that an invasion by Russia is imminent despite intensive weekend talks between the Kremlin and the West. (Photo by Efrem Lukatsky/AP Photo)