Ukraine’s Territorial Defense forces, steeled in battle, try to make up with motivation what they lack in experience
RUSKA LOZOVA, Ukraine—When, Vsevolod Kozhemiako, one of Ukraine’s leading businessmen, was skiing with his family in the Austrian Alps.
These days, Mr. Kozhemiako’s unit is fighting on its first combat mission in Ruska Lozova, just north of Ukraine’s second-largest city of Kharkiv. The village, along the main highway to Russia, was recaptured from the Russians on April 29, at the outset of the unfolding Ukrainian counteroffensive in this part of the country.liberate several towns and villages in the Kharkiv
Members of a Ukrainian Territorial Defense unit commanded by businessman Vsevolod Kozhemiako in Ruska Lozova, Ukraine, on Saturday. Established in January, Territorial Defense forces are part of the Ukrainian military, following the overall chain of command and operating jointly with other services in the battlefield. Unlike the regular army, they recruited civilians through a simplified procedure once the war began. The force’s membership cuts across class lines, ranging from business tycoons like Mr. Kozhemiako to teachers, cabdrivers and music stars.
Taras Topolia, a popular Ukrainian singer and Ukrainian Territorial Defense paramedic, at a military position in Kharkiv on Saturday.Recent legislation has allowed Ukraine’s Territorial Defense troops to be moved from their home region across the country, and the forces deployed on the Kharkiv front now include the 130th battalion of the Territorial Defense from Kyiv.
The 130th battalion fought Russian forces in Bucha and Irpin, where Mr. Topolia recorded part of a recent clip released in collaboration with British pop star Ed Sheeran. After Russian forces withdrew from the Kyiv region in late March, the battalion redeployed to protect the northern and eastern approaches to Kharkiv, including the north Saltivka district that until Ukrainian advances this weekend was in the immediate vicinity of Russian positions in the town of Tsyrkuny. On Sunday, Mr.
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