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Here's a glimpse of the reality. We live in a democracy so we can criticize even our own side. Can you believe this? If you have issues with this statement, you might be in Putin's footsteps.
A man reclines in a chair in the restaurant of the Holiday Inn in Rzeszow, Poland, a beer in one hand and his phone in the other.
He has just gotten off a flight from New York, initially intending to head straight for the Ukrainian border, about 65 kilometres to the east. But his body armour was lost on the flight. While he contemplated going in without it, he’s decided to wait and see if it arrives tomorrow.
The man, Cody Heard, from Texas, speaks openly about his background — a former U.S. infantryman, he was medically discharged from the army in 2018. He has no combat experience, no overseas tours under his belt. This is his first international trip ever. He is annoyed about the hoops he had to jump through to get into the country without a COVID-19 vaccination.
He holds up his phone, opening the TikTok app to show off his videos readying for his Ukraine trip. He has 75,000 followers.
“See, since I last checked, I’ve had 433 new followers. All from this video I posted on Ukraine,” Heard says. The video in question, shares his motivations for fighting in a war to which he has no real connection, while pleading for followers and donations. It has 1.4 million views.
He posted another video on March 20, telling his followers he made it to Ukraine. He never got his body armour. He’s gone on without it.
Heard is one of the thousands of foreign fighters who have arrived into Ukraine to take up arms — some with military experience, some without.
Social media platforms are awash with queries from people with no military experience asking for donations and passports to get them there, drawing ire from the general public and Ukrainian volunteer battalions alike.
This has led experts and battalion organizers to question the motivations of these soldiers entering a war they usually have no connection with. They’re concerned many are simply “glory-seekers” or right-wing extremists looking for an excuse to kill.
For this reason, many volunteer battalions are now tightening their screening processes. The International Legion of Territorial Defence of Ukraine, the official channel for foreign fighters, will only consider recruits with combat experience. The Ukrainian military is now urging those without military experience to stay at home.
“Our main priority is combat experience and all of them have to understand their role and place,” Anton Myronovych, a spokesperson for Ukraine’s Armed Forces, tells Global News.
Full article:
*https://globalnews.ca/news/8721221/foreign-fighters-ukraine-canada/
"A true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him."
A man reclines in a chair in the restaurant of the Holiday Inn in Rzeszow, Poland, a beer in one hand and his phone in the other.
He has just gotten off a flight from New York, initially intending to head straight for the Ukrainian border, about 65 kilometres to the east. But his body armour was lost on the flight. While he contemplated going in without it, he’s decided to wait and see if it arrives tomorrow.
The man, Cody Heard, from Texas, speaks openly about his background — a former U.S. infantryman, he was medically discharged from the army in 2018. He has no combat experience, no overseas tours under his belt. This is his first international trip ever. He is annoyed about the hoops he had to jump through to get into the country without a COVID-19 vaccination.
He holds up his phone, opening the TikTok app to show off his videos readying for his Ukraine trip. He has 75,000 followers.
“See, since I last checked, I’ve had 433 new followers. All from this video I posted on Ukraine,” Heard says. The video in question, shares his motivations for fighting in a war to which he has no real connection, while pleading for followers and donations. It has 1.4 million views.
He posted another video on March 20, telling his followers he made it to Ukraine. He never got his body armour. He’s gone on without it.
Heard is one of the thousands of foreign fighters who have arrived into Ukraine to take up arms — some with military experience, some without.
Social media platforms are awash with queries from people with no military experience asking for donations and passports to get them there, drawing ire from the general public and Ukrainian volunteer battalions alike.
This has led experts and battalion organizers to question the motivations of these soldiers entering a war they usually have no connection with. They’re concerned many are simply “glory-seekers” or right-wing extremists looking for an excuse to kill.
For this reason, many volunteer battalions are now tightening their screening processes. The International Legion of Territorial Defence of Ukraine, the official channel for foreign fighters, will only consider recruits with combat experience. The Ukrainian military is now urging those without military experience to stay at home.
“Our main priority is combat experience and all of them have to understand their role and place,” Anton Myronovych, a spokesperson for Ukraine’s Armed Forces, tells Global News.
Full article:
*https://globalnews.ca/news/8721221/foreign-fighters-ukraine-canada/
"A true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him."
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