The valiant, never-say-die, pretty-much-doomed defense of Ukranian soldiers against the Russian invaders is reminding me of the “fuck it” attitude of William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Warren Oates and Ben Johnson at the finale of Sam Peckinpah‘s The Wild Bunch.
As they start firing at General Mapache and his surrounding troops, these four bad hombres know they’re totally outgunned and as good as dead. But they’re determined to take as many of Mapache’s men with them as possible.
“Ukrainians vow to ‘give Putin hell'”, a 2.25 Daily Mail story by Jennifer Smith
“Defiant Ukrainian soldiers and civilians are preparing to fight Russia’s army to the death, vowing on Friday to ‘give Putin hell from every house’ when his men make their advance through the major city of Kyiv in a stunning show of resilience.
“Among them was a marine who blew himself up along with a bridge in the Kherson region near Crimea in a heroic act that slowed down Russian troops. The marine was named by the General Staff of the Armed Forces as Vitaly Shakun. He was manning the Henichesk bridge in the Kherson region when Russians advanced and mined it.
“According to the General Staff’s Facebook page, the battalion decided the only way to stop them was to blow up the bridge. Shakun had no time to escape. He told his comrades he was going to detonate, and second later they heard an explosion.”