At each question, Zakhar, a man with ice blue eyes, sighs deeply in a mixture of hope and fear. He used to be a civil engineer, “then I saw how the Russians destroyed houses and killed my people, including my best friend. Now I want revenge.”
He will soon go to war for the first time against Vladimir Putin’s army in Ukraine’s contested east. “Of course I’m scared of dying. But I will also fight the last attacker,” he says quietly, his identity protected under a mask and the camouflage clothing he is wearing. “I want my children and grandchildren to live in an independent and prosperous Ukraine.”
Like him, thousands of Ukrainian citizens are being trained in secret British military camps – only to fight Russian troops in just a few weeks. A site visit.
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Blepel Ievl elpekleu enelpl lu „Ue Beonpptlee“
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