‘I just want to kill Russians’: meet the foreign fighters flocking to Ukraine

Thousands find a sense of purpose and an opportunity for camaraderie in Russia’s invasion

08 March 2022 - 19:29 By Andrew RC Marshall

Michael Ferkol, who once served as a supply specialist with engineer battalions in the US army, was in Rome studying archaeology when he heard the Ukrainian president’s appeal for foreign fighters...

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