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EXCERPTS: Ukrainian painter Volo Bevza [...and...] his girlfriend, Ukrainian photographer Victoria Pidust; and her brother Mark are staying behind in Lviv to create spiky metal structures known as “hedgehogs” to block Russian tanks. ... A safe haven, Lviv has largely avoided Russian bombing and is currently functioning as a fallback capital, reported the Wall Street Journal’s Alan Cullison last week.
Lviv has become a central hub for Ukrainian defenders to retrieve medical supplies, food and weapons, per the Wall Street Journal, making it an appealing place for refugees, both diplomatic and Ukrainian, to seek shelter. The influx has put a strain on the city’s housing, forcing the government to utilize hospitals, university dormitories and even a soccer stadium for extra lodging.
Upon arriving in Lviv, Bevza and the Pidusts joined a local group of artists building the tank traps in an old workshop. Bevza and Mark helped carry, measure and cut the metal, while Victoria documented their efforts, according to Hyperallergic.
The anti-tank structures—specifically referred to as “Czech Hedgehogs” due to their original use at the Czech-German border during World War II—are made by piecing together metal I-beams and chains in way that resembles a giant toy jack. According to a U.S. Army Engineer correspondence course, cited by Kelsey D. Atherton of Popular Science, these obstacles puncture tires or flip vehicles, like tanks, that attempt to drive over them.The group was able to build about 100 hedgehogs to help protect cities across Ukraine, but ran out of materials and funding on the third day of production. Bevza tells Hyperallergic the group resorted to using old railroad tracks for construction.
Elsewhere in Lviv, bartenders have started making Molotov cocktails, a form of explosive, out of craft beer bottles... (MORE - missing details)
EXCERPTS: Ukrainian painter Volo Bevza [...and...] his girlfriend, Ukrainian photographer Victoria Pidust; and her brother Mark are staying behind in Lviv to create spiky metal structures known as “hedgehogs” to block Russian tanks. ... A safe haven, Lviv has largely avoided Russian bombing and is currently functioning as a fallback capital, reported the Wall Street Journal’s Alan Cullison last week.
Lviv has become a central hub for Ukrainian defenders to retrieve medical supplies, food and weapons, per the Wall Street Journal, making it an appealing place for refugees, both diplomatic and Ukrainian, to seek shelter. The influx has put a strain on the city’s housing, forcing the government to utilize hospitals, university dormitories and even a soccer stadium for extra lodging.
Upon arriving in Lviv, Bevza and the Pidusts joined a local group of artists building the tank traps in an old workshop. Bevza and Mark helped carry, measure and cut the metal, while Victoria documented their efforts, according to Hyperallergic.
The anti-tank structures—specifically referred to as “Czech Hedgehogs” due to their original use at the Czech-German border during World War II—are made by piecing together metal I-beams and chains in way that resembles a giant toy jack. According to a U.S. Army Engineer correspondence course, cited by Kelsey D. Atherton of Popular Science, these obstacles puncture tires or flip vehicles, like tanks, that attempt to drive over them.The group was able to build about 100 hedgehogs to help protect cities across Ukraine, but ran out of materials and funding on the third day of production. Bevza tells Hyperallergic the group resorted to using old railroad tracks for construction.
Elsewhere in Lviv, bartenders have started making Molotov cocktails, a form of explosive, out of craft beer bottles... (MORE - missing details)