Intressant intervju med "Wali", en kanadensisk legosoldat som åkte till Ukraina för att slåss för Zelensky, men lämnade och är tillbaka i Kanada:
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Dissension quickly set in among the troops and a large number of fighters deserted the Norman Brigade.
Three people who requested anonymity described to La Presse promises of arms and protective equipment made by the head of the Norman Brigade which never materialized. Some of the volunteers found themselves about 40 kilometers from the Russian front without any protective equipment. “If there had been a Russian breakthrough, everyone would have been at risk. It was an irresponsible attitude on the part of the Brigade, ”says one of its former soldiers, who asked that his name be withheld for security reasons.
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In the end, he himself said he only fired two bullets into windows “to scare people” and never really came within enemy firing range. "It's a war of machines", where the "extremely brave" Ukrainian soldiers suffer very heavy losses from shelling, but "miss many opportunities" to weaken the enemy because they lack knowledge technical military, he summarizes. “If the Ukrainians had the procedures we had in Afghanistan to communicate with the artillery, we could have caused carnage,” he believes.
https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/2022-05-06/retour-du-tireur-d-elite-wali/la-guerre-c-est-une-deception-terrible.php
Det finns nog få ställen i världen där kriget går så bra för Ukraina som på svenska flashback. Det verkar rent allmänt gå bättre för Ukraina ju längre bedömarna är från situationen, och ju mindre de vet. Märkligt det där.
