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Den ligger hos the Economist.
Mycket i den handlar om kommunikation, en del trodde de inte skulle skickas direkt till fronten och skulle få skriva på ofördelaktiga kontrakt och det reagerade de på. Men det verkar att ha blivit bättre. Artikeln är från 11:e Mars.
The foreign legion does now appear to be adapting. Online application forms for new recruits ask for candidates with “military/combat/medical experience”. 1843 magazine has heard reports that a new commander has been appointed. Veterans are now being winnowed out from those who have never seen combat – the latter now receive three weeks of training. A spokesman for Ukraine’s ministry of defence said that “we are focused on trained people. Untrained people are not going to be sent to the front”.
A Lithuanian volunteer seasoned in anti-tank warfare wears a sweatshirt that reads, in blue-and-yellow letters “Русский военный корабль, иди нахуй” (“Russian Warship, Go Fuck Yourself”), the response of the Ukrainian soldiers stationed on Snake Island in the Black Sea when a Russian naval vessel ordered them, hours into the invasion, to lay down their arms.
“I worry that if Putin conquers Ukraine, he will turn to Lithuania next,” he told me. “So I’m here fighting for my own country as much as I am for Ukraine.”