People are flocking to Ukraine to take on the Russians. Here's what foreign vets who've done it say
Russian military commanders invading Ukraine knew that their Ukrainian opponents had received significant training and weapons from the US and other Western countries.
Reports about the potential use of US-made FGM-148 Javelin anti-tank missiles and FIM-92 Stinger anti-aircraft missiles began surfacing as Russian President Vladimir Putin was amassing hundreds of thousands of troops along Ukraine's borders with Russia and Belarus.
More informed Russian military commanders also knew that in addition to the Ukrainian military and national guard, they could end up facing small groups of foreigners — mostly Westerners — who had gone to Ukraine to join the fight against Putin's aggression.
Ukraine's foreign legion
These foreign fighters first joined the Ukrainian military after Putin invaded and seized the Crimean Peninsula in 2014. An insurgency in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine began at about the same time, as Russian-backed separatists in the region sought to break away from Kyiv's rule.
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