Video is circulating the internet with the watermark of FREEDOMNEWS.TV, showing young children in Kyiv preparing for tensions with Russia by learning how to properly use guns. @ScooterCasterNY tweeted the video with the caption, “Civilians including children as young as 9 years old are training in Kyiv today amid #Ukraine #Russia tensions.”
Civilians including children as young as 9 years old are training in Kyiv today amid #Ukraine #Russia tensions pic.twitter.com/eb3aCz7Tyd
— Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 (@ScooterCasterNY) February 13, 2022
In the video, young boys can be seen learning the proper ways to hold, load and unload machine guns. The roughly 50 second clip was taken from a long video just over 5 minutes, showing “kids & adults take arms, train for invasion.”
After one boy is filmed being taught how to correctly operate the gun, he speaks to the camera. Subtitles say the boy is saying, “I’m here to learn self-defense. So when you need to defend, you can be ready to fight.”
A slightly older-looking boy adds, “to know what to do, how to do it, how to carry it properly. To correctly help yourself.” Later in the video, he adds, “we’ll go to fight, because besides her (Ukraine) there is nothing else. She is in our hearts. And we always need to keep our hearts safe. So it would stay ours, same with Ukraine.”
Some drills are conducted, and then a woman who appears in her 50’s or 60’s, handles the machine gun and says, “that’s it Putin, get ready. Get ready because we are going to win.” She continues, “it’s very important to me because I’m already fighting for Ukraine with Freedom Party ‘Patriya Svobody.”
“I am very worried. I have a really large family, 18 people” she says. “7 Grandchildren, a great-grandchild – I want to leave them Ukraine as an inheritance.”