Citizens of Odessa decided to help troopers of Southern Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to dig trenches around the city.

The call to come and help troopers appeared on Tuesday in “Grazhdanskiy Manifest” Facebook community. Southern Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine notified us about the need to build defences at several important points of the Odessa region. We all are hoping for peace, but it does not mean that we should not go outside the city and build several kilometers of trenches under management of troopers, engineers and architects.

Translated by Eugenia Zlamanuk, edited by Larry Field