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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums18 year old Ukrainian volunteers off to war in Kyiv. Three days training and they will be on ...
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femmedem
(8,203 posts)This tweet is from March 4. I hope they are all still alive.
Throck
(2,520 posts)I thought all Ukrainian men 18-60 were automatic conscripts? (Old news articles.)
peggysue2
(10,828 posts)So young to be sent into a vicious war front.
May they come back home alive and whole!
Aristus
(66,369 posts)I can't imagine him having to be thrust into situations like these young men are facing.
peggysue2
(10,828 posts)My sons are grown men. They will always be my babies.
But yes, twenty-two is still so very young, first steps into adulthood.
After you've witnessed a baby to a child to a teenager grow and develop, it's heartbreaking to think of them on a battlefield.
Doesn't matter if it's always been this way--young men sent into horrific wars. For those who love them, know them?
Gut-wrenching. The stuff of nightmare. Even when the cause is righteous.
Efilroft Sul
(3,579 posts)Putin and Trump have been the twin engines of destruction for this world.