{"id":41697,"date":"2022-03-04T01:17:50","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T01:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/uncategorized\/2022\/03\/04\/lviv-is-turning-its-factories-into-improvised-weapon-centers\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T03:30:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T03:30:47","slug":"lviv-is-turning-its-factories-into-improvised-weapon-centers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/news\/2022\/03\/04\/lviv-is-turning-its-factories-into-improvised-weapon-centers\/","title":{"rendered":"Lviv is turning its factories into improvised weapon centers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">LVIV, UKRAINE &#8211; Ihor Tokarivsky runs a successful business erecting mobile telephone towers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/ukraine\/2022\/03\/03\/war-crimes-investigation-launched-against-russia-as-ukraine-civilian-deaths-rise\/\" target=\"_blank\">across Ukraine<\/a>. His company manufactures the steel parts for the towers at a factory in Lviv, assembles them on site and then mount the electronic components.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But with 300 Belarussian tanks parked at the border 110 km to the north, Tokarivsky, 35, repurposed his production facilities this week to build tank traps and devices to shred the thick tires of military vehicles.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/your-military\/2022\/03\/03\/ukraine-invasion-live-updates-march-3\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP22061432744479.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Ukraine invasion live updates: March 3<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Follow along for continued coverage of the conflict in Ukraine.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He\u2019s one of the scores of residents assembled in Lviv\u2019s picturesque old town square devising imaginative ways to defend their city. Some made camouflage nets for the military while others manufactured hundreds of Molotov cocktails.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Experts in urban warfare such as the John Spencer, a retired Army major, have been sharing urban tactical knowledge online and in interviews with tips on how to protect their towns. This includes parking buses in main roads and breaking off the keys in the ignition to removing batteries from cars to immobilize them. All of it is aimed at slowing the Russian advance. Urban defense and insurgency ingenuity has few boundaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now, Ukrainian civilians pressed into this fight are using what they have on hand and getting creative as they go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"1280\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Askold3.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-78872\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Askold3.jpg.jpg 960w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Askold3.jpg.jpg?resize=225,300 225w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Askold3.jpg.jpg?resize=768,1024 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A box of homemade &#8220;hedgehog&#8221; devices designed to puncture military tires. (Askold Krushelnycky photo).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tokarivsky said that when Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s invasion of Ukraine started last week he immediately dispatched his wife and two year old son to safety across the Polish border some 60 miles away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the meantime, Tokarivsky decided the most useful thing he could do was to take the tools at his facilities to build devices to impede Russia\u2019s military vehicles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAlthough many people refused to believe that Putin would really attack, I was fairly certain he would,\u201d he said. \u201cI worked in Moscow for a couple of years and saw the twisted way they thought about Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since then, a group of seven employees and 10 other volunteers from neighboring businesses have manufactured more than 50 tank trap obstacles. The objects weigh about 400 kilograms each by welding steel girders into structures that hook and lift armored vehicles that drive into them. Tokarivsky said the devices not only immobilize the vehicles but and make the vehicles\u2019 underbellies more vulnerable to anti-tank weapons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The group is also turning out smaller devices they call \u201chedgehogs\u201d made of two lengths of construction-strength steel reinforcing rods that have been bent and welded together with all four ends sliced into sharp spikes. Tokarivsky explained that whichever way the hedgehog lands on the ground it always presents spikes that will puncture even the heaviest tires used by military vehicles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By Tuesday evening they had purchased enough steel to make more than 11,000 of the weapon. Each one takes about 10 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOf course I am ready to fight against the enemy if they come here,\u201d he said. \u201cBut I wondered if there was something more I could do than just pick up a gun. I raised we had the tools to make items that would help our military. &#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another man welded bars that were first cut by two of his colleagues, then bent into shape by a powerful hydraulic tool. \u201cEveryone in Lviv is trying to do something to defend our country against this invasion,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/your-military\/2022\/03\/03\/volunteer-fighters-arrive-in-ukraine-but-the-untrained-should-stay-home\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/UKR3.3.7.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Volunteer fighters arrive in Ukraine. But the untrained should stay home<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">A Ukrainian defense official said that they&#039;ve received more than 3,000 applications for U.S. citizens wanting to fight.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tokarivsky said \u201chundreds, maybe thousands\u201d of other small and medium businesses in Lviv and other towns all over Ukraine had rapidly transformed themselves to produce items helping in the country\u2019s defense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Much of Tokarivsky\u2019s production is dispatched to Kyiv and other cities under Russian attack. Volunteers from Lviv have daily been driving vans and trucks loaded with \u201chedgehogs,\u201d medicines, food, stretchers, tents, communications equipment and other supplies to the embattled capital. At another part of the industrial park a team of five men turned empty beer bottles into Molotov cocktails, an improvised gasoline bomb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tokarivsky said that Lviv\u2019s oldest and best know \u201cLvivske\u201d brewery, had offered 1,000 bottles for the task. \u201cThe bottles were already filled with beer and we had to tip 500 liters of that great stuff down the drains. That was heartbreaking!\u201d Now, the bottles have been filled with petrol and chunks of polystyrene that had been soaked in a solvent. Ripped up sheets were stuffed into the bottles acted as fuses. Then crates of the assembled cocktails were then driven to selected locations throughout the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019m sort of in the communications industry, building the mobile phone towers,\u201d and pointing to the bottles with their Lvivske labels, \u201cand this is our collective message in a bottle to Putin.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the city\u2019s picturesque, old market square, dozens of men and women worked turning hundreds of square yards of fishing-style net into camouflage for the Ukrainian military to conceal battlefield positions, buildings, tents and vehicles by tying in strips of different-colored material. Their work was interrupted by air raid sirens going off around the city and the volunteers sheltered some of the basements beneath each of the venerable old buildings fringing the square. But about 20 minutes after the all-clear sounded, people quickly returned to work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of them, a 20-year-old student, said: \u201cWe\u2019ve been preparing for the worst for weeks. I\u2019ve taken a first aid course and another to learn how to use firearms. We trained with pistols, rifles and Kalashnikov machine guns. But right now this is the most useful thing I can do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>Military Times editor-at-large Todd South contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scores of residents assembled in Lviv\u2019s picturesque old town square devising imaginative ways to defend their city. 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