US volunteer soldiers appear in Ukraine frontline footage – video

The footage suggests the international legion fighting alongside the Ukrainian military is playing an increasingly active role. The video clips show an American in combat gear posing in front of the burnt remains of what he said was a Russian tank. The videos were posted by James Vasquez, a US army veteran and building contractor from Connecticut, who according to his Twitter feed, arrived in Poland on 15 March, crossed into Ukraine the next day, bringing with him several surveillance drones. He was sent to the frontlines from Lviv on 18 March

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