“Recruits say they are often waiting for weapons and training, leaving them feeling exposed.”
Training? They showed up to a war zone for training?...
For their sake I hope they are issued cyanide pills because they will wish they were dead if the Russian military catches them.
Cannon fodder
The famed Reddit Brigade thought they’d show up and be promoted to honorary colonels or get to do cool special forces stuff instead learned that fighting a modern conventional army was not what they imagined.
did they bring their own body bags with them?
It’s not like a video game with cool weapons laying in front of you when you level up... Or 3 lives and “spawn armor”.
“Foreign fighters in Ukraine await weapons in chaos of war”
More FAKE NEWS. Russia sent them 30 cruise missiles on Sunday morning.
“DUDE - I’m in Ukraine!!! See for yourself! Next week off to fight that EVIL PUTIN!!!”
...and with the metadata from that picture, and the posting in English (or some other non-local language), the coordinates for Russia’s cruise missiles were now set.
“Recruiting chats on the encrypted Telegram messaging app are run by the Azov Regiment, popular with neo-Nazis and white supremacists, and American neo-Nazis work to recruit for Azov, the respected SITE Intelligence Group says. Azov Regiment originated as a far-right paramilitary unit and is now a subset of the Ukrainian military, according to SITE.”
Didn’t the media pretty much tell us that Azov doesn’t exist and was a ‘conspiracy theory’ being propagated by those opposing intervention? I guess the NY Times found a reason to state the truth here.
“Recruits say they are often waiting for weapons and training, leaving them feeling exposed.”