The Molotov cocktail and the Russian tank have had an intimate relationship since their earliest days. Yet for all that is unique about this war, by resorting to the “poor man’s grenades”, the Ukrainian people are, in fact, joining a long tradition of guerillas, rioters and underdogs. He’s the manager of Pravda Brewery in Lviv, western Ukraine, which has gone from making “Putin the D-head” beer to petrol bombs. "Right now, nobody is drinking much beer anyway because of the war, so we decided to use the bottles to make Molotovs instead," Juri Zastavniy, told The Telegraph earlier this week. And there has been no greater symbol of the grim defiance with which Ukrainians have responded to the invasion than the Molotov cocktail.įrom mothers and students gathering together to distil the petrol bombs, to social media videos of drive-by Molotivings and official guides on how to make and use them, the improvised weapon has become an essential way for Ukrainian civilians to oppose their would-be occupiers. Analysts talk of never having seen such high morale or determination from a civilian population. In ordering the invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin’s biggest miscalculation may have been his apparent assumption that the Ukrainian people would immediately give in to Russian troops – or even welcome them as liberators.
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