have additional materials in them to ensure the fire will stick to whatever it s thrown at. petrol alone isn t good enough. you want something sticky so it sticks on a person. when we got to the factory, there was a group of maybe 70 or so men who were all standing around a car. there was somebody in a uniform, ukrainian uniform, who was explaining to them how to throw a molotov cocktail inside a vehicle to the best effect. there s a lot of people here who are trying to get as much training as they can in order to face russian forces if and when they come. in another neighborhood, residents gather supplies and send them wherever they re needed. spike strips to puncture tires, flap jackets with metal plates inside. we re continually sending them to guys there throughout the day, he says.
plate to a firing range. and this is six liters in width. they tried different firearms and round, he was able to block some rifles but a sniper s rifle punched right through as did a machine gun. they re not using this width for their flap jackets. the team settled on a width of 8 millimeters. vitaly says this new model will go to a fighter within the hour. my normal work is to defend people in a court of law. now we have to defend people s lives from the enemy, from the killers who for some reason want to kill me, my little daughter, my grandmother and so on. reporter: this is one example of the collective war effort that has sprung up here. ordinary ukrainians doing their part to protect their homeland.
take orders requesting armor before they head to the front lines. before the war vitaly was a warren actor of scenes of the first world war when ukrainian nationalists not against russian bolsheviks. definitel several days after this war, he asked his grandmother to sew armor before heading off to combat. this operation relies on donations and improvisation. this is some padding for the flap jackets to go around the armor plates and they re made from the material they used for floor mats for cars. reporter: the armor plates come from scrap metal scavenged from old cars, welded and reworked by volunteer mechanics and field tested. so they have taken out a
allies, nato allies, part of a treaty alliance but the turks and kurds don t hold the same power against each other. it is not likely the kurds can hold out against a major offensive by the turks for very long. reporter: no, not in any kind of conventional war, no. they will have to go underground, they ll have to take up guerrilla tactics which will only make them look more like terrorists, which is what turkey says they are to begin with. going back to what you were saying, yes, the kurds have been u.s. allies a long time. i wouldn t say the chaos here started in 2011, it goes back to the iraq war, to 2003. and in the kurdish regions in northern iraq no u.s. soldiers or almost no u.s. soldiers were attacked. it was a safe area. u.s. troops could walk around the kurdish regions without their flap jackets. i remember in those areas they were sometimes american flags in
dead bodies, males in this case. but this came after a night of heavy airstrikes on the edge of that encampment and that continued that continued throughout the night into the morning when we saw this announcement from mustafaa bely, saying the battle had ended in victory and isis had been 100% eliminated. so we went into the camp. but actually as we were going in, there was still some gunfire. we saw a sniper on a rooftop trying to target the hillside, which was the final place where isis jihadis had hit out. we don t know the fate of those jihadis and their families. we were told there were families with them. no sign of them this morning. but what is clear, because we were walking around the encampment. there was no gunfire or nothing. we didn t have to put on flap