Ukrainian brewery ditches beer for Molotov cocktails in war against Russia

A volunteer demonstrates the preparation of Molotov cocktails on the Pravda - (Fact) brewery in Lviv.
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A Ukrainian brewery has switched craft beer for Molotov cocktails within the battle against advancing Russian troops.

The employees on the Pravda brewery in Lviv determined to provide the petrol bombs amid fears that Russian tanks will roll into the western metropolis of 720,000 residents close to the Polish border, Agence France-Presse reported.

The corporate started producing the incendiary weapons for the Ukrainian Territorial Protection Forces, which is made up of reservists who responded to President Volodymyr Zelensky’s name to take up arms.

“It's a must to look forward to the fabric to be nicely soaked. When it's, meaning the Molotov cocktail is prepared,” one smiling worker advised AFP as he stuffed the fabric deep right into a beer bottle stuffed with a combination of oil and gasoline.

The beers-to-bombs endeavor comes after officers within the capital of Kyiv urged locals final week to “neutralize the occupier” with the home made firebombs.

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Army instructors have been educating civilians to make use of Molotov cocktails in opposition to the closely armed Russian troops.

On the Pravda brewery, a number of dozen of the bombs have been positioned neatly on tables in order to guard them from the sunshine snowfall.

The staff of Pravda Brewery in Lviv got here up with the concept to start making Molotov cocktails.

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A volunteer collects Molotov cocktails from Pravda Brewery.

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The enterprise proprietor, Yuriy Zastavny, stated the concept to provide them got here from one in every of his staff.

“We do that as a result of somebody has to. We've the talents, we went by way of a avenue revolution in 2014,” he stated, referring to Kyiv’s pro-Western rebellion that ousted a Kremlin-backed regime.

“We needed to make and use Molotov cocktails then,” he stated, vowing to do “the whole lot we will to assist win this battle.”

Considered one of Pravda’s favourite brews is known as “Putin khuylo,” AFP reported — which roughly interprets to “Putin is a d—head.”

Pravda Brewery is one in every of Ukraine’s main breweries, identified for its beers with politically engaged messages in response to what the nation has been going by way of since 2014.

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Labels of Pravda Brewery’s profitable beers are displayed on February 18, 2022 in Lviv, Ukraine. As soon as the middle of Ukraine’s 2014 Revolution, Lviv is again within the highlight as a protected haven for diplomats evacuated from Kyiv amid ongoing tensions with Russia.

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