KYIV, Ukraine — The ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine has left many Ukrainian soldiers feeling war weary but unwilling or unable to give up the fight.
“I will return to my brigade and maybe I will fight again.”
It’s not a fear of getting killed that has him hesitant to return to the front lines, he says. It’s a lack of leadership from some officers that has him worried. “In autumn, I was in the sniper’s group and we good missions, bad missions, but we don’t lose anyone. I was transferred into another squad to do communications, but we already don’t have the right soldiers from assault squads.”Article content
“I was fighting in Bakhmut, but we don’t have machine-guns and they say that you don’t have qualifications for machine-guns. Why do you need them?”
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