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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
Andrew R.C. Marshall

Pro-Europe western Ukraine provides both sanctuary and strength to fight Russia

Maksym Kozytsky, head of the Lviv regional military administration is photographed during an interview with Reuters, following the Russian invasion at his office in Lviv, Ukraine, March 3, 2022. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach

In his grandparents' time, said Maksym Kozytsky, there was a saying: In every cellar you should hide a gun to fight the Russians.

Today, Kozytsky, 41, sits in a semi-fortified building in Lviv, a city in western Ukraine, where as regional governor he is preparing his country's most emphatically pro-European region for the possible arrival of Russian soldiers.

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