Almost 40,000 volunteers joined the Territorial Defense Forces in the first two days after the invasion began, according to the Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces.
He was scared, he said -- everybody there was scared. "One thing is having soldiers coming at you, but when there are rockets flying from the sky and you have no control over that, that is another thing," he said.Rostislav, or Rostia for short, is not a military man. Just a week ago, in his pre-invasion life -- a life that seems completely alien right now -- he worked as a hot air balloon pilot.Roman and Rostislav man the guard post outside the TV tower on March 2.
The treadmills, stationary bikes and elliptical machines inside were all covered with a thick layer of dust, and smoke was still rising from the building.Five people were killed in the attack on Tuesday, according to Ukrainian authorities. Their blood was still clearly visible on the street on Wednesday.They died near the site of another massacre. The TV tower stands in Kyiv's Babyn Yar neighborhood.
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