large remote control army /battle tanks-tracks

Like most plans, this one doesn’t last long and the bridge is blown too early.

The defenders will funnel the invaders into town, then blow up the bridge behind them.

Yevhenii, the thirtysomething mayor, and Andrii, his deputy, rally the ‘troops’, setting up a makeshift civil defence team in short order. When news breaks that the Russians have invaded Ukraine, a plan is quickly hatched. That places it directly on the intended Russian route to the port city of Odesa, whose capture would have given Moscow control of the Black Sea coast. Voznesensk, a farming community in the Mykolaiv region, lies close to where two rivers, the Southern Buh and Dead Water River, come together. It is, in other words, the story of the war writ small. It is instead the stirring tale of how one small southern town took it upon itself, with a motley collection of defenders young and old, male and female, civilian and military, to stop the Russians dead in their tracks. It is not a general history and nor does it dwell at length on the fraught and complicated story of Russia-Ukraine relations. Unlike most of the current crop of books about Ukraine, this pleasingly slim volume takes the narrowest focus. The starring role is taken by Svetlana, a magnificent, arthritic, round-shouldered babushkaĪ Small, Stubborn Town showcases his storytelling talents. He is just as likely to be on receive as transmit and understands that he is not the story. He is a much more understated reporter, and less prone to foreground himself at the expense of his interviewees. It is difficult to imagine Andrew Harding, a veteran BBC foreign correspondent, tweeting something like that. What it was really about, though, was John Simpson – how many world leaders he had interviewed (200), over how long (more than 50 years), and who he most admired (Zelensky, Nelson Mandela and Vaclav Havel). The other day, John Simpson, He Who Cannot Be Removed From The BBC, tweeted something purportedly about Volodymyr Zelensky.

Large remote control army /battle tanks-tracks