photo: screenshot of the video message of Belarusians
A Belarusian unit was created under the «Azov» territorial defence. This is the first unit of foreign volunteers, Lviv Now’s Telegram media-ally Ukrainian Freedom News reports.
«We encourage you to join us and fight shoulder to shoulder with Ukrainian for the ideals of freedom and value of sovereignty» – the members of the unit told in their video message.
We will add that Dzhokhar Dudaev Battalion of Chechen volunteers has been fighting for Ukraine against the orcs since 2014. It mostly consists of the Chechen soldiers who participated in the First and Second Chechen wars against Russia and is named after the first President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria Dzhokhar Dudaev.
Let us also recall that President Zelenskyi urged soldiers from all over the world to join the international legion of territorial defence against Russia. Already hundreds of foreigners from Europe and America are ready to join the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Ukrainian TV-channel TSN reports. The governments of Denmark, Latvia and even the United Kingdom, supported the appeal. Latvia’s parliament has voted unanimously to allow its citizens to fight in Ukraine if they wish, and the Danish prime minister has said that citizens will be allowed to fight against Russian troops.
Here is the video of a volunteer from Croatia who has been fighting for Ukraine since 2014 and defends Mariupol. «Katsaps [Russians], you don’t know how to fight, you escape from the battlefield. You only know how to kill civilians, to attack schools, kindergartens with missiles and artillery, to kill children. Russians, you are motherfuckers, bitches, shit» – says the Croatian volunteer.
By Vitalii Holich
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