Kharkiv residents know what capitulation to Russia threatens them with - in the first days of the war, their relatives survived the occupation in the Kharkiv region: Russian soldiers shot civilians, arrested and tortured them for their pro-Ukrainian position, robbed their homes...

To be able to fight for their children, women receive basic military training at the Kharkiv Regional Center for Preparing the Population for National Resistance.

By bombing the city daily, destroying residential buildings and hospitals, Russia makes it clear that it is ready to kill civilians and it will do it.