Putin beordrar styrkor att gå in i Ukraina - INVASION NU (2022-02-24)

A third of the men Matthew Robinson meets have only a few weeks left to live.

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“This has become a TikTok war,” he says, referring to the video-sharing website. “You see the videos of expensive western kit taking out columns of Russian tanks, and that’s great, but the reality is very different.”

As if to illustrate the point, Robinson takes out his phone and shows a picture of a man whose facial features — his nose, mouth and eyes — have been blasted away in the fighting. In another video one of his volunteers is having shrapnel removed from the socket that once held his eye. The man was blinded because he did not have a pair of protective goggles on the front line.

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Zelensky has praised Britain and the US for answering Kyiv’s call for help, a point not ignored by Boris Johnson during his own leadership tumult.

Robinson argues that this too is false, however. “At the start of the war, I gave an interview to Fox News and lied. I said we had support, but we didn’t. I didn’t feel it would be in the interests of the war effort for me to be brutally honest and say we haven’t got the help we need. I felt it would play into the Russian’s hands from a propaganda point of view.