Odessa's warrior women await: Meet the fearsome females who are armed to the teeth and ready to defend the port from seaborn invasion
- Women are training to use rifles in Odessa determined to repel Russian invaders
- Soldiers man barricades on Ukraine's beaches as Russian warships lurk nearby
- Residents fear Odessa - a key stronghold - could be taken by a naval assault
By IAN GALLAGHER IN ODESSA FOR THE DAILY MAIL
PUBLISHED: 09:59 AEDT, 23 March 2022 | UPDATED: 09:59 AEDT, 23 March 2022
They may not be dressed for war, but these women training to use assault rifles show Odessa is determined to repel invaders.
A soldier manning a sandbagged barricade on the beach was even reminiscent of Normandy in 1944.
But Russian warships lurk over the horizon. Strategically vital, the Black Sea port may shape the course of the war.
Members of the public learn to handle weapons during a civilian firearms training class in Odessa, southern Ukraine, yesterday
One of the participants in the Odessa training class takes aim at a target
Ukrainians in Odessa have resorted to training themselves to repel enemy invaders
Residents fear Odessa will be taken in an amphibious assault combined with paratrooper landings, effectively making Ukraine landlocked.
On Monday it was shelled from the sea – the first time the Russian navy had turned its guns on the city since the invasion.
Yesterday it was on high alert, its air defences blasting Russian reconnaissance drones out of the sky.
A Ukrainian soldier stands guard with his gun next to barricades at the beachfront near Lusanivka in Ukraine
Participants of a civilian firearms training class take aim at a target
Local factory owner Ruslan Popkov, 50, admitted: ‘My dominant emotion is fear. Do the Russians intend to kill all 35million of us?
‘Yet 10 per cent of me feels oddly joyful because the war will sever our ties with Russia once and for all.'
Meet the fearsome women armed to the teeth ready to defend the port of Odessa from seaborn invasion
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