[....] Some Russian soldiers are demoralized after being confronted by angry working people, the opposite of what they had been told to expect. Some Russian prisoners of war say they had been used as “cannon fodder.” A number of Moscow’s units have refused to shell Ukrainian towns unless civilians left.
Moscow admitted that 498 troops were killed by March 2, but losses are likely to be in the thousands.
Thousands of residents of Melitopol, a city of a quarter of a million near the Sea of Azov, shouted “Go home” at a Russian column. Dozens blocked vehicles. When soldiers fired into the air they chanted, “Who are you shooting at? We are unarmed,” and “leave our land!”
A 40-mile-long Russian military column amassed 17 miles north of Kyiv has been stalled since March 1.
Emigrants are returning to Ukraine from across Europe to join the fight for their country’s sovereignty. In the week after the invasion, some 22,000 headed back across the Polish border....
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