Russia-Ukraine War Updates: Ukrainian brewery goes from making beer to petrol bombs
India Today
Russia-Ukraine War News Updates: A brewery in Ukraine has gone from making beer to Molotov cocktails in the last few days in order to aid in the effort to fight against Russian forces who invaded the country on Thursday.
Until last week, the Pravda brewery in Ukraine’s Lviv was engaged, as it names suggests, in brewing beer. But since Russia invaded the country on Thursday, the establishment has quickly switched to making Molotov cocktails in an effort to aid Ukrainian fighters in the war.
A Molotov cocktail is a breakable glass bottle containing a flammable substance such as petrol or alcohol and usually a source of ignition such as a burning cloth wick. It is a bottle-based improvised incendiary weapon.
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“We will do everything we can to help win this war,” said Pravda brewery owner Yuriy Zastavny.
"We do this because someone has to. We have the skills, we went through a street revolution in 2014. We had to make and use Molotov cocktails then," he told AFP news agency, referring to Kyiv's pro-Western uprising that ousted a Kremlin-backed regime.
He said that the idea to make Molotov cocktails came from one of his employees who had participated in the 2014 uprising.
Hard at work, one smiling employee explained the process, “You have to wait for the cloth to be well soaked. When it is, that means the Molotov cocktail is ready.”
