Russia Missile Attack On Ukraine American Fighter Base

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The Justice Department has probed seven US citizens for alleged war crimes committed in eastern Ukraine while some of them fought with far-right paramilitary forces, BuzzFeed News reported in October.

When they arrived at Yavoriv, the foreigners were interviewed about their past military experience and placed into groups based on that experience, the American soldier said.

The six foreigners all said they did not sign any contracts except for a document saying they accepted military uniforms. Many of the fighters were quickly offered weapons, but the groups of six interviewed by BuzzFeed News received what they described to be better weapons from a third party.

In the days before the attack, they trained together, practicing “small-scale tactics, how you’ve got to move… practicing medical procedures,” James said.

Another British fighter and former UK soldier described practicing triaging wounded soldiers and evacuating them.

“We hadn’t cemented it all down yet so everyone was just rotating through roles to see how it is. We’d only just started really,” said that British soldier, who asked not to be named because his family didn’t know he had come to Ukraine.

The group declined to describe the command structure of the foreign legion, citing military secrecy.

“Nothing was perfect. Nothing ever is. But some things could have been better,” said the other British fighter.

Still, the fighters are just happy to be alive.

“When the first couple came in, I was very surprised we didn’t get one on us,” referring to a missile, said yet another British soldier turned foreign fighter.

“It was one after the other. There were no simultaneous strikes,” he said. “It wasn’t like shock and awe in Baghdad where they all hit at the same time, perfectly organized by the allied forces where you’d have like five or six landing on any spot like bang-bang-bang-bang-bang,” he added, underscoring his point but showing an image of a burning structure that he said had been across the street from where he was staying in Iraq.

That soldier said that the group believed following the attack that Russian paratrooper landings were imminent near a helicopter landing site on the base. But that landing never happened, which was a relief: He ticked off a list of armaments that would typically be employed in such an assault.

The group decided to leave the base and go to Lviv in order to clear their heads and get away from the mayhem. They said they were asked to turn in their weapons before they left the base.

One of the Brits said he’s now torn between staying with the foreign legion and trying to join a humanitarian organization to focus exclusively on providing aid to people. The rest of the guys are still hell-bent on helping Ukraine fight against Russia.

“I’m not going home because of a few missiles,” James said.

Source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/christopherm51/russia-missile-attack-yavoriv-ukraine-american-fighters

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