
Ukrainians are making homemade body armor to send to frontline troops
CNN
Irina Protchenko, 68, sings the Ukrainian anthem while steadily working at her sewing machine in a small apartment in central Ukraine. She and her family are making flak jackets and balaclavas for Ukrainians traveling east to protect their country from Russian invasion.
She should be enjoying a life of leisure after decades of hard work. Instead, she's sewing flak jackets and balaclavas with her children and grandchildren for Ukrainians traveling east to protect their country from Russian invasion.
"I should be sewing tuxedos for weddings," not flak jackets, she told CNN. Her sewing machine is pushed against the corner of the living room, surrounded by rolls of fabric, Velcro, and cut-up car floor mats -- supplies either purchased by the family or donated.

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