Terrifying

 NY Times: I’m in Kyiv, and It Is Terrifying By Veronika Melkozerova - Ms. Melkozerova is a Ukrainian journalist and the executive editor of The New Voice of Ukraine, an English-language news site.

Some 43 percent of Ukrainians, according to a recent poll, are ready to fight the Russians — and more than 100,000 have already joined defense units across the country. We will fight, as our foreign minister said on Wednesday, for every inch of our land. Proud citizens of one of Eastern Europe’s democracies, we refuse to be ruled by military diktat.