Maksym and Nazar, aged 10 and 11, wear camouflage jackets, carry wooden rifles and plastic machine guns. When they are not attending classes online, they man a fake checkpoint on the roadside, stopping passers-by and checking their credentials in an effort to, as Maksym puts it, "help people and make them laugh". One driver stopped, Oleksander, says "we are very proud that there is a generation of youth growing up to be patriotic". IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES