HUFFINGTON POST: 'Ordinary People, Extraordinary Things': Civilian Resistance Is Key To Ukraine’s Defense

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Period7 Apr 2022

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  • Title'Ordinary People, Extraordinary Things': Civilian Resistance Is Key To Ukraine’s Defense
    Media name/outletHuffington Post
    Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
    Date7/04/22
    Description“There’s no way to over-exaggerate the extreme bravery that these ordinary citizens are demonstrating,” said Olga Onuch, an associate professor at the University of Manchester.

    The civilian resistance to Russia is using time-honored tactics, like daily demonstrations, and foiling occupiers’ plans to consolidate their rule by refusing to cooperate. The resistance is also developing covert, informal efforts to ease humanitarian suffering and hurt Russia’s military capabilities by gathering intelligence and training citizens in small-scale guerilla tactics...
    URLhttps://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/ukraine-civilian-resistance-russia_n_624e0748e4b0e44de9ca9a6d
    PersonsOlga Onuch
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  • Russia-Ukraine war