Ukraine's resilience 'unwavering' despite Russia's targeting of civilian infrastructure
Russia's targeting of civilian infrastructure is making the Ukrainian people "stronger", according to a former Royal Marine reporting from Kyiv.
Documentary filmmaker Emile Ghessen told Forces News that Russia has been attacking civilian targets across Ukraine for the "last couple of months" using Iranian Shahed-136 drones.
Mr Ghessen said he can "imagine this is what it was like during World War Two" when after attacks by German bombers, civilians would get "back to normal".
"That's very much life in Kyiv and a lot of cities across Ukraine now, where the Russians will carry out their attacks, once it's all quiet again, people go out, clear up the mess and everyone just carries on."
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However, he did say the Shahed-136 drones are having a psychological effect on Ukrainian people.
"With these kamikaze drones that they used last week, that's a new fear," he said.
"These are loitering drones, they come across and then they just hit – all the targets they hit last week were all civilian targets. There was nothing militarily that they hit.
"That's a massive fear amongst people now that they put their kids to bed in the evening and then in the early hours of the morning they don't know if they're going to be waking up."
The Iranian-made suicide drones can be heard as they approach, says Mr Ghessen: "You can hear them coming, they're quite prominent in their sound and they're not as fast as the missiles, cruise missiles, that come in.
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"You hear them go over and I've told people, if you hear it going over, potentially it's not going to hit you because it has gone past you by that time and is going to hit another target.
"The psychological impact [from] the sound that they have is massive."
However, Mr Ghessen said despite the fear of Russia's attacks on civilian targets, the resilience of Ukrainians is "unwavering".
"Every time the Russians strike a civilian area in Ukraine, it just makes the people here stronger," he said.
"The fact is that [with] every attack, they just get angry and they go 'let's continue this fight'.
"So I don't think the Russians are doing themselves any favours by attacking civilian areas."
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