Ukraine plans to effectively dismantle one of the main structures that has brought foreign volunteers into its ranks, the International Legion under the Ground Forces, according to sources, leaving legionnaires worried they will lose the unit’s hard-won identity and be scattered into unfamiliar structures in a way they say could cost lives.
“Our biggest worry is just that we’ll be moved around and units will be pulled apart, and we’ll basically be funneled into where they feel like they need to put us in order to make this work,” a soldier who has fought with the Legion for a year and a half told the Kyiv Independent on condition of anonymity.
“This is (about a thousand soldiers) being moved into different areas, falling under their command, and with that kind of change will come mistakes. Mistakes that could have been prevented by just keeping the structure that we have now," he added.
The Ground Forces, which the Legion is subordinate to, has not responded to the Kyiv Independent’s request for reasons or more details about the expected structural change by publication time. The plan does not impact the other International Legion under the Defense Ministry’s military intelligence (HUR).
Founded in February 2022 at the request of President Volodymyr Zelensky, the Legion allowed foreigners to fight alongside the Ukrainian army, and has had both battlefield and political impact throughout the war.
The current plan involves the Legion’s three combat battalions being transferred separately to an assault regiment or brigade, an officer familiar with the matter told the Kyiv Independent on condition of anonymity. The officer, along with several legionnaires interviewed, said they are speaking out in an effort to preserve the Legion in its current form, arguing there is no need for a change.
It is unclear whether the assault regiment or brigade to which the legionnaires would be transferred will be under the command of Ground Forces or the newly created Assault Forces, according to the officer. The transfer is expected to be completed by the end of the year, the officer said, adding that the units would cease to exist under an independent umbrella of the Legion.
Surprised it took them this long tbh, the Reddit Brigade was an absolute opsec nightmare
i like how outgunned they were on other platforms like here on lemmy and tiktok.
i guess they were a litmus test that showed how pervasive western propaganda was on your social media platform and i’m glad that the ones i patronize repelled them successfully.
By brigade, they mean actual forces sent by reddit to Ukraine. They were some of the first people wiped out by a missile strike in training. As mercenaries are not afforded humanitarian privileges like soldiers.
Since day one…
Not enough western libs want to put their deeds where their mouths are?
2 questions to you:
- Are you pro Palestine?
- Are you in Palestine?
Trying to imply that what’s happening in Ukraine is the same as what’s happening in Palestine is truly braindead, and i think you know that or you’d have said something.more specific.
Oh, you are perfectly right, Ukraine and Palestine are not the same. Ukraine never attacked Russia before Russia started the war.
And no that doesn’t mean that Israel is right in what they are doing, it is still wrong and a genocide. But Hamas did attack Israel (which they led happen to have a reason for their conquest). Israel is sadly just more effective than Russia at what they are doing. Both are invading other countries for bullshit reasons though.
So no, I don’t think like you.
Ukraine never attacked Russia before Russia started the war.
Yeah they were just doing ten years of ethnic cleansing against ethnic Russians in their own country, not like Israel at all🤷♂️
Both are invading other countries for bullshit reasons though.
Damn, whitewashing two genocidal regimes with one sentence, that’s real efficiency baybee
So no, I don’t think like you.
You people all try to do mic drops like lyrical miracle rappers and it’s so embarassing
OK, I know tankies live in a different reality, but you seriously need to explain to me how you interpret me as defending Israel.
OK, I know tankies live in a different reality
You can just call it reality
how you interpret me as defending Israel.
Whitewashing, I said. Pay attention, because words mean things. By referring to what the zionist entity is doing as “an invasion” and not a genocide, and especially in order to try and draw a comparison to Russia’s decidedly non genocidal actions, you are downplaying the full on extermination campaign being waged by Israel, much like how people calling it the “Israel-Hamas War” in the beginning were downplaying it.
Now address the Ukranian coup government’s ten years of ethnic cleansing.
OK, thanks for proving that you don’t even read what I write. Please read again my admittedly longer than 3 word comment.
If it is still too long, small hint: search for the word genocide, you will find it in there, I promise. And before you accuse me of editing it in, just check the log files and you will see, it was there before you wrote your comment.
So with that said, have a nice day.
Are you?
Why though? I didn’t say people need to risk their own lifes? That was you?
Edit: oh nice, editing your comment after realising you were talking bullshit. Funnily enough my comment still works, even after you changed yours XD
Wow it took you 3 seconds to read the comment, UA could really use you in their reddit brigade.
Nah, my app is slow and showed me your unedited comment in the mail box and I only saw you edited your comment after I send mine, because my app only then refreshed it.
So just an aspect of the decentralised way the fediverse works.
And I forgot to ask: why are you not answering my question but rather try to evade? Not owning up to your own words regarding certain actions and words?
Nah, my app is slow and showed me your unedited comment in the mail box and I only saw you edited your comment after I send mine, because my app only then refreshed it.
It took me few seconds to edit it, so you still very fast
And I forgot to ask: why are you not answering my question but rather try to evade? Not owning up to your own words regarding certain actions and words?
Why aren’t you answering to my question first, it might not be specifically aimed to you, but you turned out to be the scissors that sounded very triggered by the question, so i would assume you are posting this from Pokrovsk after all?
Why am I not answering your question? Because I question the basic premise of it. You proposed it. Stand by your own words first, before asking others to adhere to your standards, that you apparently don’t hold yourself to.
