This has been the case since late February, when the 56-year-old from Kyiv was called up by the Ukrainian army to resume a career he left in 1986. Working as an industrial dumpster, Pokropyvayi left the Soviet army 36 years ago and never imagined he would they called him. “We can not compete in terms of equipment, but our forces are better trained and more determined than the invaders,” he said after transporting Soviet-era tanks to forests where they could not be found near the village of Novomykolaivka, about 90 miles west of
