Ei noista vapaaehtoispataljoonista näytä paljon välitettävän jos joutuvat pulaan. Apu kyllä kelpaa, kuten esim. tänään Mariuopolin lähistöllä Venäjän rajan tuntumassa.
Alla ote tuosta KyivPostin jutusta:
Abandoned Donbas Battalion fights on
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An experienced and respected photographer, Glyadelov has covered many wars, including the Moldovan Transdnistria and Russian Chechen conflicts. Exasperated with the heavily restricted access to the front granted by the Ukrainian government's press service, he joined the Donbas Battalion to see what was really going on.
He found that while volunteers motivated by principle and with a high fighting spirit are stranded in desperate circumstances, government and media claim the situation is under control and reinforcements are on their way. “They are frightened of the truth,” he said. “First, they need to actually provide the help they keep promising. And second, they need to stop lying.”
With the regular army in a disastrously impoverished state, Ukraine is reliant on the goodwill of volunteers to win its war with the Russian-backed ‘people’s republics’ in the east, the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic and Luhansk People's Republic.
Volunteers are providing the army with everything from food to body armour to medical kits. And volunteers are increasingly doing the actual fighting. Volunteer battalions have been in combat alongside regular troops since May.
