Travels to war: – He will kill Putin

MEDYKA (Dagbladet): – Will you fight, we ask.

Dressed in camouflage, two young Ukrainians, Roman and Mikhail, climbed to the border fence. It’s almost 23 on Saturday night.

– Yes, yes, yes, they say in unison.

President of Ukraine Sunday prays about it Foreign volunteers come to Ukraine and recruit as foreign fighters. The authorities formed a separate foreign war battalion to participate in the fight against the Russian invasion forces.

They previously refused all men between the ages of 16 and 60 to leave the country. Dagbladet spoke to several refugees who said refugee trains picked them up on their way to Poland and were ordered to fight back home.

wiping away tears: finally together again

ready for war

Here in Medica, one of the border posts between Poland and Ukraine, the fire brigade captured Dagbladet and ran all the way to the border fence late Saturday night.

Within half an hour, 5-10 young men in camouflage fatigues were ready late Saturday night, ready to fight—so far most of them were Ukrainians. But on social media, several initiatives have been circulating in the past few days to gather and coordinate foreign fighters who want to fight in Ukraine.

Trailer drivers Roman and Mikhail are the closest and go, at the height of adrenaline. They traveled from Denmark, where they delivered a trailer load.

– We’re going home. My daughter and brother are in Ukraine. I have family in several places in the country. My boss is already in Ukraine to fight.

– Do you have military experience yourself?

– Yes.

Putin will kill

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has himself dressed in camouflage, a combat jacket and a machine gun and is – along with many other members of the government – participating in the fight against Russia.

Roman and Mikhail seem to be doing well.

– The boss is good. He is young, trustworthy, gentle and a wonderful man.

– What do you want to say to President Putin?

– If I could get him, I would have killed him on the spot. Don’t shoot him. His hands held him. Listen to me – it’s a video that shows a Russian tank quietly driving over a Ukrainian car, says the trailer driver.

Fear of Chechnya

Watch Dagbladet’s video – and others similar. But she did not have the opportunity to check if it was original. Roman has no doubts.

Are Russian soldiers human at all? I do not think so. There’s no other way to look at it, he says.

Russia struggled to find allies to conquer it. But Belarus and Chechnya support Russia’s war of aggression. The Romans in particular fear the forces of Chechen President Ramzan Khadyrov. He says:

– Now the Chechens are coming. They don’t shoot you, they cut you and wrap the knife around your body. Like lamb kebabs at the butcher’s.

anarchism

Around them on the Polish side of the border, it’s cold, crowded, and relatively chaotic. But there is food, blankets and some basic equipment to get her. A large supermarket opened a short distance away late on Saturday night and people were allowed in. Several refugees and volunteers told Dagbladet that the situation on the Ukrainian side is much worse than in Poland.

– People stand in line for 20-30-40 hours. Without food, without water, aid worker Yuri Senenki tells Dagbladet.

We met him in an impromptu refugee camp in Przemysl – the last major city before the border, where refugee trains arrive from Kiev and Lviv.

Synenkyi usually works with marketing. Now he put his job aside and traveled with five comrades from Warsaw to contribute to volunteer work.

We distribute clothes, food, hygiene products, and set up tents where people can sleep. But many of those who come are so tired that they do not dare to eat, they just stand and look at us.

Volunteers wave posters and offer refugees a trip to Gdansk and Krakow – and to Berlin, Spain and Denmark.