War in Ukraine: in Odessa, the population organizes the resistance against the Russian army

They are a hundred, men from the city of Odessa (Ukraine), loyal to Ukraine. Every evening, they patrol the streets, organize car checkpoints to check that strangers are not carrying weapons. In his rounds, Alexandre does not want to leave anything to chance and stops a passer-by who was sitting on a bench. He could be a Russian army spy. “There’s a man outside at midnight, he claims to be homeless, but he’s too clean to be.”thinks Alexander. He and his men take her to the police station.

In another neighborhood, women are erasing fluorescent tags that would be markers for drones programmed by the Russians. “If everyone did that, we would be safer.”said one of them. Part of the population is pro-Russian in Odessa, but they are not the majority. In a courtyard, young people make Molotov cocktails to defend themselves against the Russian army.