"One Paramedic's War in Ukraine, From Maidan to Debaltseve" Topic
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Tango01 | 27 Feb 2015 11:00 p.m. PST |
"A column of Ukrainian troop trucks rumbled across the frozen, pitted ground. Slowed by a full load of soldiers each, their drivers strained to see through mud-spattered windscreens in the early morning light. Thousands of Ukrainian soldiers had started their retreat from the besieged city of Debaltseve in the dead of night on 18 February, but the rising sun was making the trucks and their trails increasingly obvious. As they left the strategic rail and road junction, the soldiers didn't know where the Russian forces and their separatist allies were, but they knew they were close. Vehicles started peeling off from the column across the fields, hoping to provide a smaller target. As one four-truck convoy trundled onwards, metal-clad shapes loomed on a snow-capped ridge ahead. Within moments tank rounds and rocket-propelled grenades had ripped into three of the trucks, explosions sending their human cargo sprawling and shattered into the field.Machine gunfire clattered into the engine block of the last vehicle, bringing it grinding to a halt…" Full article here link Amicalement Armand |
GNREP8 | 28 Feb 2015 6:34 a.m. PST |
interesting line 'During training by mysterious former members of UK and US special forces' all members of Sf are mysterious. Of course actually when one thinks about the no. of people who leave UK/US SF and the military more generally every year, that some should end up as PMCs training other militaries either with or withous UK blessing is not surprising. The UK at least has no monitoring in that sense of peoples movements to know whether ex soldier A's trip to Malaga is for a holiday or is en route to Kyiv. And as long as he's breaking no laws (which training isn't) so what really. |
GeoffQRF | 28 Feb 2015 7:16 a.m. PST |
Would there be a difference if he was still an active member doing it whole on 'vacation'? |
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