After the war began last month, Ukrainian President Zelenskiy began to recruit "volunteers" to fight on a large scale, and a so-called "foreign legion" was specially formed. The legion is said to have retired soldiers (also civilians) from many countries in Europe, the Americas and Africa, and there is not even a unified language, but the enthusiasm for combat is very high. To some extent, the Zelensky government spent a lot of energy, time and money to publicize the presence of foreign "volunteers" in their army in order to earn more sympathy, and even exposed that very few people in this army were "inspired" to come, many of whom were hired soldiers with high salaries, who came to Ukraine in pursuit of war stimuli and salaries.
One key point is that the Russian state media has been almost completely "banned" on foreign websites, and all they can see is unilateral reports from Ukraine. In the Report of the Ukrainian media, Russia has to pay hundreds or even thousands of casualties every day, more than 60% of the troops are damaged, tanks, tanks, thousands of people, more than 60% of the troops, more than 60% of the troops, more than 60% of the casualties, more than 60% of the casualties, more than 60 This gives mercenaries from other countries to Ukraine an illusion: the Russian army is like the United States in Vietnam and Afghanistan in the tug-of-war and mud, Ukraine has a huge advantage.
Yesterday morning, Rose, a former Brazilian soldier who escaped from Ukraine, filmed a video about his real encounter as a mercenary in Ukraine. A former shooting instructor, he has belittled the Russian military on various video platforms, demanding that government forces intervene and declaring that he is not afraid of war. Later, he traveled to Ukraine through various means and was "in a base with people from different countries such as France, South Korea, and Chile". According to Ross, the real situation is completely different from the propaganda, he has been bombarded from the first day, and he has been killed and wounded before he can go to the front.
Ross said that after yesterday morning's airstrike (a missile attack by Russian troops on a large mercenary military base in the western lviv region, allegedly killing many people), most of his comrades who had not yet been on the battlefield were killed or wounded, his squad was "basically annihilated", and he and the remaining survivors took a bus to Poland to leave. Michel, another French mercenary, was also directly frightened to cry, and he said with tears, "I have to cheer up and then hurry up", and then spent a day running to Sweden; although many people fled as soon as possible after the air raid, Pulino, who was in the same squad as Ross, revealed that many of his friends had died in the bombing, and this place was "definitely not Disney".
It is also worth mentioning that in addition to these mercenaries who fled in a hurry before the war, there are now "volunteers" on the Internet abroad who have come to Ukraine to complain that the Zelenskiy government has been spreading false information to deceive the outside world. They had thought that when they arrived in Ukraine, they could immediately engage in a tense battle to attack the Russian army, but they found that "they did not see any defensive forces on their side at all", there was no signal contact on the battlefield, they were bombed almost every day, and their comrades died one after another without even seeing a Russian army, and they suggested that the people "can provide moral support, but never come to Ukraine." ”