Commenting on the status of the weapons and equipment, a Ukrainian soldier said.
“The equipment may be old, but we will make it work. Even if it’s only a shoe or a stick.”
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WRT Winston Churchill’s “We will fight them on the beaches” 1940 speech to Parliament, immediately after Dunkirk:
"Allegedly, in the immediate aftermath of his speech, Churchill turned and whispered to a colleague: “And we’ll fight them with the butt ends of broken beer bottles because that’s bloody well all we’ve got!” https://winstonchurchill.org/resources/speeches/1940-the-fin…
–sutton
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