United in defiance, residents fortify Lviv against Russian attack
Global News
Ukraine’s westernmost city, Lviv has a long history of defiance against invaders, making it a natural base for the fight to repel Russia’s invasion.
The billboard a worker hung from a vehicle overpass in Ukraine’s westernmost city on Monday was defiant. “Russian soldiers go f–k yourself, the people of Lviv,” it read.
Outside a shop, an electronic sign displayed a middle finger to the Russian forces, while in another part of the city, boxes of Molotov cocktails were ready for street battles.
With Russian troops in Ukraine’s second-largest city Kharkiv, on the doorstep of Kyiv, and bombarding other centres, Lviv was fast becoming a key base in the country’s fight to guard its independence.
It’s a familiar role for the city of 720,000, which stubbornly resisted Russian and Polish occupation in the first half of the 20th century.
Nazi rule in 1941 gave way to Soviet rule three years later. The red-and-black banner of the Ukrainian Resistance Army, which fought both occupiers, still flies around Lviv.
Independence came in 1991 but Russian President Vladimir Putin wants Ukraine, and since his latest invasion began on Feb. 24, Lvivites have quickly united in their defiance.
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