Chortkiv should be finishing off preparations for its 500th anniversary celebrations this summer — but instead the small medieval town in western is preparing for war.Road signs are being removed, street lights switched off, checkpoints built on entry points, battle plans drawn up and hundreds of men drafted into military units.Today, the police plan to give lessons to volunteers on how to make and throw Molotov cocktails — although they call them kokteli shchastya (‘happiness cocktails’) since they do not want to sully their mouths by using the name of a Russian Soviet-era politician.
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