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Ukraine military turns volunteers away due to lack of weapons as 140,000 Ukrainians come home to fight Russia
Fox News ^ | 03/07/2022 | Tyler O' Neill

Posted on 03/07/2022 10:11:12 PM PST by SeekAndFind

Even while 1.5 million Ukrainians have fled the country amid the Russian invasion in the past two weeks, more than 100,000 Ukrainians and others have flocked to Ukraine in order to fight Russian President Vladimir Putin's forces, according to Ukraine Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov. Ukrainians on the ground tell Fox News Digital that volunteers have been turned away from the army because it lacks weapons.

"More than 140,000 Ukrainians, mostly men, have returned from Europe," Reznikov wrote in a Facebook post Monday. "Tens of thousands joined the Territorial Defense Forces. Of course, there are those who run away. But the whole world sees the Ukrainian people fighting for their country."

The defense minister added that the military has received "more than 20,000 appeals from foreigners who are ready to come to Ukraine and defend the world from the Russian Nazis on the Ukrainian front" in order to prevent "the Kremlin's evil" from spreading.

Mark Savchuk, Kyiv-based coordinator of the Ukraine Volunteer Journalists Initiative (UVJI), told Fox News Digital that he and a friend attempted to join the military, but they both were turned away.

"I can't join, because I was specifically told ‘no room,’" Savchuk said. "We are yelling for more weapons because we can't put more people on the front line. Please give us more weapons, so that all of us can fight."

"My friend in Iviv was told to f--- off," he added. "No guns, they can't accept more people."

Savchuk noted the viral images and videos of unarmed Ukrainians in the south crowding around Russian vehicles in order to slow or stop the advance. "Why would they come unarmed in front of a tank, if they wouldn't want to fight?" he asked.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: banglist; chechens; chechnya; putinsbuttboys; putinworshippers; russia; russianaggression; ukraine; volunteers; war; zottherussiantrolls
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1 posted on 03/07/2022 10:11:12 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
Ukrainians on the ground tell Fox News Digital that volunteers have been turned away from the army because it lacks weapons.

Wait, I thought they were able to give every Ukrainian citizen a gun?

2 posted on 03/07/2022 10:15:15 PM PST by McGruff (The first casualty when war comes is truth)
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To: SeekAndFind

Another feel good story that can’t be verified.


3 posted on 03/07/2022 10:31:35 PM PST by Revel
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To: Revel
IIRC, you could have a gun for hunting but not personal protection. It may be changed now.

Those pics we saw practicing with plywood guns...was the reality.

4 posted on 03/07/2022 10:40:48 PM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: SeekAndFind

A polish contractor we use, based in Krakow, use a lot of Ukraine labor for processing, warehouse, as truckers, etc...

They told me that indeed hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians are crossing their border. The majority of them, he told me, are young men - like we saw in Syria, they are fleeing conscription.

Ukraines borders are closed to men - if you are 18-65, you are not allowed to leave.


5 posted on 03/07/2022 10:52:04 PM PST by PGR88
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To: SeekAndFind

” and defend the world from the Russian Nazis on the Ukrainian front”

LOL, this must be the new propaganda memo that went out. I have seen numerous references to Russians as “nazis”. The Ukes must be stinging from more and more people learning about Azov and Svoboda and their power in the Uke nazi government.


6 posted on 03/07/2022 10:56:58 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: McGruff

They want to give all the militia a gun, but apparently the large cold war stocks of AK-47s are mostly gone, long since sold as surplus.

They seem to be getting weapons of all kinds over the E.European borders, leftovers from the Warsaw Pact stocks that some countries still have.


7 posted on 03/07/2022 11:17:37 PM PST by buwaya (EPA)
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To: buwaya

Why not pick up the AKs and ammo that the fleeing convoy Russians are leaving behind?


8 posted on 03/07/2022 11:32:00 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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To: Cobra64

No doubt they are doing just that. But weapons in Kharkiv does non mean weapons in Lviv, nor do scattered finds of 10-20,000 enemy weapons help much if you are trying to arm 1,000,000 men.


9 posted on 03/07/2022 11:57:11 PM PST by buwaya (EPA)
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To: SeekAndFind; Conservative4Life
It's weird how the dead get up and move around to adjust their body bags.
10 posted on 03/08/2022 12:30:29 AM PST by Trillian
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To: Trillian

Too neat, not enough blood, and they have zombies, which is never good.


11 posted on 03/08/2022 12:57:32 AM PST by buwaya (EPA)
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To: Trillian

https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.32486M8


12 posted on 03/08/2022 1:05:33 AM PST by MD Expat in PA (No. I am not a doctor nor have I ever played one on TV. The MD in my screen name stands for Maryland)
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To: MD Expat in PA

Did a news agency actually air that clip with the reporter acting like he was there? Is this official propaganda or just amateur propaganda? Or is someone trying to discredit the media more than they discredited themselves? So many questions.


13 posted on 03/08/2022 1:38:34 AM PST by Betty Jane
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To: DesertRhino
I have seen numerous references to Russians as “nazis”.

You've even seen photos of Russian "separatist" leaders wearing full on Nazi uniforms with swastikas, but since you're full blown propagandist on this forum, you will pretend it is a "new meme."

14 posted on 03/08/2022 1:47:08 AM PST by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: DesertRhino; All

🇺🇸 Know this is long for FR’s, and unlikely to be read, but as a true conservative who loves the truth, I will try again —

I have no doubt the Ukrainian people and government have picked up on the successful and pervasive Western narrative of Ukraine = NAZI. And they are pushing back.

Absolutely no doubt.

Having spent significant time in Kiev, Odessa, and several cities along the Dnieper River, LIKE RUSSIA, several of these cities have large monuments to the hundreds of thousands who died fighting the NAZI’s, as well as monuments to equal numbers of civilian Ukrainian and Jewish Ukrainian’s who were simply slaughtered by the NAZI’s.

As well, in 2019, I was on a team which discovered nearly two dozen more, often very large area mass graves, of mostly Jews, but also Ukrainian’s and Romanian’s in Southwestern Ukraine. This is explosive info, and resources have been spent to keep a lid on it.

It is complicated however, as it is true about NAZI’s once being significant in Ukraine, as the multiple communist revolutions conducted by both Lenin and Stalin were so ruthless, when Hitlers forces ran across the region, many Ukrainian’s did in fact support Hitler against Stalin. And further complicating the history, while they did slaughter Ukrainians and Jewish Ukrainian’s, the NAZI’s (national socialists) didn’t kill anywhere near the number Stalin’s CCCP (soviet socialists) had before WWII blew up between Hitler and Stalin in Europe.

It is clear, there were Ukrainian’s who hoped Hitler could take down Stalin.

As I studied their history from Moscow, I had two Russian History professors who placed the number of Ukrainian people either murdered or starved by Lenin and Stalin at 12.6 and 14.1 million respectively. This is significantly more than the 8 to 12 million dead often sited in Western sources.

Its also complicated, as hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian people from farm’s were sent to Siberia where they and their families died. As they were often sent to Siberia, “White Russians” were in turn sent to Ukraine to replace many of them.

As well, there were in Moscow, in the early 1990’s, small monuments placed at a half dozen Moscow Metro stations (deep under ground), dedicated to the Ukrainian, Polish, German, and Jewish slave labor largely utilized in digging the tunnels post WWII, where many thousands of them died. And that was Moscow proper not Siberia.

As well, Yekaterinburg (where Yeltsin was from), in the Southern Urals was a city largely made up of captured WWII, and forcibly transplanted East Germans. Today, it has remained one of the largest cities in Russia, since WWII. There are many actual German NAZI sympathizers within Yekaterinburg to this day. When young men are conscripted from this region, there will be at least a small cross section of Russian NAZI soldiers.

Years ago, while in Russia, this was truly not an issue for them, and I rubbed shoulders with officer training schools in Moscow.

Additionally, while I got along with the Russians bery well, there was a strong and longstanding hatred for Jews. This is also present within their history.

A couple more anecdotal points on this.

While in Moscow, on my free time, I volunteered to teach finance and economics on the Central East side of Moscow, inside a literal walled ghetto from WWII time frame. Jewish high school and college students were often not allowed to attend campuses outside of the ghetto (one of the reasons I chose to teach there). This got me in lots of “hot water” with local government officials, and consequently caused some people at the US Embassy to run interference for me. While teaching in the ghetto, we put together a basketball team, with funding from several churches stareside. We trained these guys hard for a couple of years, gave them a name and and nice uniforms, and had them travel all over Russia. Those guys played their hearts out, and had a lot of support. Eventually, they were set to play the Russian National Team, and they played very well. However, someone tipped off the Russian National coach, and they were angry they were playing Jewish students, and we had a fiasco.

I saw lots of persecution against Jewish students and people in Moscow.

In line with this, right up to the mid 1990’s, there was a PLO Embassy/consulate government center (what it was referred to as, was dependent on who you were speaking with), but Israel didn’t until pressure was applied early on in Yeltsin’s puppet tenure.

So there are layers here.

However, TRUE leftist fascism involves CORPORATISM.

In Russia, and its 9 member (10 with Ukraine) CIS recipricate’s, they phave since 1991 been subordinate CIS member states, and no corporation can operate without majority RUSFED control.

In the near decade I spent there, every American and foreign corporation had to restructure their Russian or CIS corporate endeavors anywhere investments were made within the CIS, specifically because of this state mandated corporatism, so not to SUBJECT their entire US or Foreign corporation to Russian Federation state control, or CIS government state control.

*This is real fascism, in our modern tome, at a level far greater today than Germany’s fascist governance before and during WWII.

What we are really dealing with here, is true lack of knowledge of the roots within CIS’s Belavezha Accord and Alma Ata Protocols, and member adherent policies, and as well, a true fundamental western illiteracy as to CIS economic, military, and battlespace subordination and requirements under CIS Military HQ in Moscow.

This is not an American specific problem, but true across Western societies as a whole.

(CIS HQ is in Minsk, but CIS Military Command and finance is under the Russian Federation in Moscow, and all member “states” are subordinate)

Banking, finance, economic trade, state policing, and judiciaries are also reciprocate, or “special consideration” determined in Moscow.

Unless we are going to redefine fascism, the Russian Federation is a true fascist government organization.



Already put this out, as some on here know, but will do it again.

I am neither NEO-CON, or moderate, let alone Deep State.

I am a hard core Believer and conservative, and life long Soldier and Marine, and haven’t stopped serving -

I’ll probably repeat this again, but to the historically illiterate making arguments about Ukraine and NAZI’s (National Socialist), my following point will NOT get into real contextual detail of the Lenin/Stalin (Union of Soviet Socialist) Ukrainian genocides, and replacement of Ukrainians with obedient CCCP transplants, only to be followed by a NAZI takeover (which eliminated more Ukrainians and Jews, just not as many as Lenin and Stalin), just to be retaken by Stalin with more death.

Historical context is critical, but not my points here.

To the point about “NAZI’s, depending on who you listen to, there are between about 350-400 all the way up to few thousand neo nazi Ukrainians in the Ukraine army out of what was closer to 300,000 personnel (today the real number is closer to 500,000 personnel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azov_Battalion
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There are an estimated 50,000-70,000 Neo-Nazis in the Russian Army according to multiple sources, including from Russia.

I specifically recall reading this from my time researching military “biographical” subject matter, while fortunate enough to have gained access to highly controlled records (with tag’sover my shoulder), while at RIA Novosti in downtown Moscow.

Somw of the site’s getting into this is here, but not comprehensive

https://borgenproject.org/neo-nazis-russia/
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Why are German neo-Nazis training in Russia?
https://www.dw.com/en/why-are-german-neo-nazis-training-in-russia/a-53702613
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Signs of Neo-Nazi Ideology Amongst Russian Mercenaries
https://informnapalm.org/en/neo-nazi-ideology-amongst-russian-mercenaries/
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As.well, it is true, President Zalensky is Jewish and was actually elected with well over 60% of the vote to fight corrupt oligarchs who were alternately in bed with Putin-connected Russian oligarchs, and trying through Gorbachev’s now Moscow and Geneva based “Green Cross”, to (beside Moscow) influence rapid reduction of EU energy purchases from UA.

Ukraine is unfortunately considered the 3rd most corrupt nation in Europe, after Russia and Moldova.

Also keep in mind Ukrainian President Zalensky stood staunchly with Trump, and defended Trump against the deep state coup d’etat efforts.

INVERSELY, poc’s from Putins Kremlin axis 🇷🇺🇨🇳 provided multiple fraudulent documents to the British and US deep state, in an effort to end Trumps candidacy and presidency 🇺🇸 -

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2020/04/20/newly-declassified-evidence-russia-didnt-try-to-help-elect-trump-in-2016-n385165

As well, while certainly not alone, both Russia and China conducted remote penetration and manipulation of NOV 3, 2020 election. This is a huge and covered up effort and subject itself.

Getting past the NAZI subject we also had e this —



Special Address by Vladimir Putin with Klaus Scwab at WEF 2021

https://www.weforum.org/events/the-davos-agenda-2021/sessions/special-address-by-vladimir-putin-president-of-the-russian-federation

I caught the following from the same WEF/Schwab speech, as I understood much of his Russian, but wanted the link so not my own words (when possible)

From this same Schwab WEF address, Putin pushes global vaccination, and a new world order constructed around central banks -

As such, this discussion is legitimate
https://cairnsnews.org/2022/02/27/putin-is-another-of-klaus-schwabs-followers/

Not even getting into the pre Gorbachev/Putin KGB efforts to gain power within the Roman Catholic Church, which has resulted in the current Pope, who is allied with Schwab and the ROC —

*Putin met, and has worked with Klaus Schwab from his pre arranged Gorbechev appointment and new cover as mayor of St Petersburg, following his time as ranking KGB officer in East Germany - 1992 -

From my own study -
While an East German KGB chief, Putin met in person multiple times with Schroeder (NOW THE HEAD OF MAJORITY RUSSIAN STATE OWNED ROSNEFT AND GAZPROM and behind Nordstreams 1 and 2), and recruited heavily from University of Leipzig where Angela Merkel had been a student, as well as the Central Institute for Physical Chemistry, Academy of Sciences from 1978 to 1990

https://truth11.com/2021/12/24/vladimir-putin-and-klaus-schwab-go-way-back/

https://theamericanreport.org/2022/01/30/klaus-schwab-brags-that-trudeau-merkel-putin-are-former-world-economic-forum-young-global-leaders-we-penetrate-the-cabinets/

Didn’t want to see a war of any kind, ng it there is obviously far more at play than many are even aware.

There is much more...


15 posted on 03/08/2022 2:10:05 AM PST by patriotfury ((May the fleas of a thousand camels occupy mo' ham mads tents!) )
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To: SeekAndFind

That Ukrainian dancer is really getting roasted for having fled back to the US instead of staying and fighting .


16 posted on 03/08/2022 2:41:38 AM PST by RummyChick ( )
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To: patriotfury

Thanks for posting. I didn’t read all of it, but I read the meat of the article. Good information.


17 posted on 03/08/2022 3:13:51 AM PST by Hardastarboard (Don't wish your enemy ill; plan it. )
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To: Betty Jane

A link to this doctored video was posted and posted several times on Q threads.

The original video is from an Austrian news outlet and is of a climate change protest.

https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-ukraine-body-bags/fact-check-video-shows-climate-demonstration-not-staged-body-bags-in-ukraine-war-idUSL2N2V6241

The doctored video has been cropped and overdubbed in English to make it appear to be of “fake” Ukrainian casualties. The origins for the doctored video appear to stem from pro-Putin social media.


18 posted on 03/08/2022 3:15:46 AM PST by MD Expat in PA (No. I am not a doctor nor have I ever played one on TV. The MD in my screen name stands for Maryland)
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To: McGruff

Why can’t the Mexicans donate to the Ukrainians all those guns we gave them via Fast ‘n Furious?


19 posted on 03/08/2022 3:16:35 AM PST by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: Trillian

That video had nothing to do with Ukraine. Its an Austrian climate change protest.


20 posted on 03/08/2022 4:37:02 AM PST by FreshPrince
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