Pavlo Ganovskyi, a 28-year-old patriotic educator who spent time in the military, gives free lessons several times a week in the use of AK47 rifles and hand grenades to groups of about 20 people in a Lviv theatre.
The students in his workshops are mostly men of all ages and backgrounds, with no prior military training, who want to be ready in case the Russian army arrives in the city.
“We are training people of all professions, everyone who wants it, a huge number of volunteers who are trying to enter the combat units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, territorial defense units.
Here we teach people basic military training.
We also teach them how to shoot and give basic medical care.
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Andrii Drobit, a young Ukrainian journalist who came to attend one of these workshops, hopes however that he will not end up having to use his weapon: “The current situation in Ukraine [is that] we have enough soldiers but nobody knows what 'It will be tomorrow and I want to be ready, to be ready, to go to war, you know.
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Oleksandr Krasivskiy, sales manager, chose to participate in situational training, in a building in the city: "Here, we receive tactical training on how to move with a firearm, on how to to operate inside a building with a firearm, about what we should expect when we fight inside buildings, he explains.
This is totally new to me, I've never done this before and wasn't even interested in any of this before this situation started.
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