One year after Russian forces first invaded Ukraine, Ukrainian civilians are showing no signs of halting their resistance to the already-entrenched occupation, according to NBC News’ Richard Engel, who says that “fatigue is not an option” for Ukraine’s secret resistance.
“If they lose this fight, they lose their country, they lose their lives [and] they lose their homes,” the NBC News chief foreign correspondent told TheWrap, adding that Russia has destroyed any symbols of Ukrainian identity and engaged in campaigns of “extreme violence and repression” in occupied cities. “Russia set out to conquer this country, topple the government [and] put in its own government … Getting fatigue or losing morale isn’t an option for them.”