A Ukrainian man who enlisted after Russia’s invasion gives an update, a week later

By Bill Chappell

Volodymyr Omelyan says he believes that defending the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, is important. It is a city he feels like he belongs to.

“People are getting furious and people are ready to kill Russians,” Volodymyr Omelyan told NPR on Wednesday. “Even civilians which never took any kind of gun in their hands.”

(Image credit: Volodymyr Omelyan)

Source: A Ukrainian man who enlisted after Russia’s invasion gives an update, a week later