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Frank Langfitt

Ukrainian soldiers are picking up new skills — even from YouTube — to fight Russia

Members of the Ukrainian Territorial Defense Forces examine new armaments including NLAW anti-tank systems and other portable anti-tank grenade launchers, in Kyiv on March 9. (Genya Savilov / AFP / Getty Images)

MYKOLAIV, Ukraine — On the second day of the war with Russia, Anatoliy Nikitin and Stas Volovyk, two Ukrainian army reservists, were ordered to deliver NLAW anti-tank missiles to fellow soldiers in the suburbs north of Kyiv. Then, as they stood exposed on a highway, Nikitin, who goes by the battle nickname Concrete, says they received new orders.

"A guy on the radio said, 'There are two Russian tanks coming at you. Try to hit one and livestream it!,'' recalls Nikitin, sitting on a park bench in the southern city of Mykolaiv, as artillery rumbles in the distance.

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