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Recruits say they are often waiting for weapons and training, leaving them feeling exposed

The foreign volunteers who joined an international brigade is now a ragtag army, recruits saying they are often waiting for weapons and training.

They are idealists who abandoned their jobs for the battlefields of Ukraine. They are looking for a cause or simply to fight. The Ukrainian president’s call for foreign volunteers to join an international brigade to help bolster his country’s defense with a new layer of resistance to Russia’s invasion is for now a ragtag army. Recruits say they are often waiting for weapons and training, leaving them feeling exposed. “Pure hell: fire, shouting, panic" is how Swedish volunteer Jesper Söder described Sunday’s attack on Yavoriv. A military training base in western Ukraine was poun...

He said he never believed that Putin would invade - and now felt he had to do something after seeing civilians bombed and killed.