Posted on 05/31/2022 10:12:45 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Patron the Jack Russell has become a billboard worthy war hero as his bomb disposal skills have helped the team find over 200 Russian landmines and unexploded bombs
Russian special forces Belgian Malinois dog switches sides after it was found abandoned and close to death by Ukrainian soldiers
-Belgian Malinois Max, 3, was found starving by Ukrainians in the Mykolaiv region
-He has been redeployed as a mine clearer after being Ukrainian commands
-Ukrainian troops said could not understand why the Russians left Max behind
An abandoned Russian war dog has swapped sides - and is now saving Ukrainian soldiers on the battlefield.
Belgian Malinois Max, 3, was found starving by Ukrainians in the Mykolaiv region and was nursed back to health.
He has now been redeployed as a minesweeping dog after being taught to understand Ukrainian commands.
Dmitry, a member of the National Guard of Ukraine, said: 'From now on, Max will serve on the right side, defending Ukraine and nibbling Russian asses.'
His comrade added: 'Max has become a real favorite with the guards.
'We can't understand why the Russians would leave behind such as lovely animal.
'Ukrainians love dogs, they regard them as part of the family.'
Max was found still wearing a camouflaged collar issued to the Russian hounds.
A British special forces soldier told the Daily Star: 'Malinois are the same breed used by the SAS and the SBS. They are brave, highly intelligent and athletic animals.
'They are tremendously loyal but Max has obviously been convinced that the Ukrainians are now his new masters.'
He added: 'I'm very surprised that one of these animals was actually abandoned by the Russians because they are a highly-prized asset.
'Also the bond between a dog and its handler is very strong.
'It would be like leaving a member of your family behind.'
Max is not the only pooch who is making an effort to protect Ukrainians.
Jack Russell Patron is a national hero, having recently been awarded a medal for valour by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, has 250,000 Instagram followers and is the star of billboards symbolising his country’s defiance of Vladimir Putin.
Originally bought to appear in pedigree dog shows, Patron has detected more than 200 deadly Russian landmines and unexploded bombs.
Wagging his tail, Patron – whose name translates to Bullet in English – earns his reward of a piece of cheese from his owner and handler Mykhailo Iliev. He has to be careful with the treats. Patron weighs 4kg, handily less than the 5kg that sets off most Russian munitions.
The two-year-old pet found fame when Ukraine’s State Emergency Service posted a video online of their mascot working in the war-torn northern city of Chernihiv. He received his medal at the presidential palace in Kyiv with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who was visiting, looking on.
As we travel to the landmine- strewn forests around Chernihiv, troops and police officers at checkpoints cheer Patron and pose for selfies. ‘He gets a lot more tired now because of all the attention,’ says Mykhailo. ‘But it’s good to keep up the guys’ morale.’
Reaching a clearing, Patron soon finds abandoned Russian trenches crammed with empty cases of missiles for Russia’s Grad truck-mounted rocket launchers. Wearing his blue military harness, adorned with an embroidered bullet, Patron darts through the thicket to sniff out live munitions.
After buying Patron, Mykhailo soon realised the dog could help his work as a bomb disposal expert.
‘My wife is also in the services and there was no one at home to look after him, so I have taken him to work with me every day since he was two months old,’ he says.
‘This is his life, it is all he has known. It is just a matter of chance that we have such a capable dog. He is not a service dog, he is my pet, but he has an amazing nose and is an avid learner. He was meant to be a show dog but his destiny was to save people’s lives, not to win prizes.’
From six months, Patron was trained to detect TNT and gunpowder. When he does, he stops rigid and stands with his nose down until Mykhailo and his team approach.
Translation: A soldier found a dog on the battlefield.
This propaganda is just getting comical now.
A Ukrainian soldier deactivates anti tank mines before repositioning them to the frontline closer to Russian troops 
This is embarrassing.
The dog probably sees no difference between his Ukrainian handlers and the Russian handlers. Try letting the Arabs or Africans in the area handle him.
Even a dog can tell what Russia is doing is evil.
I guess it takes a while to haul $40 billion to the laundromat.
Kind of sounds familiar:
Abandoned dogs get new handlers after US pullout from Afghanistan
By Yaron Steinbuch
September 13, 2021
https://nypost.com/2021/09/13/abandoned-dogs-get-new-homes-after-afghanistan-withdrawal/
There’s a problem with the ownership of these dogs though, because these two comments about the dogs do not mesh with one another:
1)
Azizi said he is not sure about the identity of the previous owners — and is instead just focused on getting the canines back to work when the airport returns to normal.
“We have done training with them to find out what they are used for exactly,” he told AFP, adding that they have realized “they are bomb dogs.”
2)
“Photos circulating online were animals under the care of the Kabul Small Animal Rescue, not dogs under the care of the U.S. military,” US Army Lt. Col. Karen Roxberry, a spokesperson for US Central Command, told The Post.
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Kabul Small Animal Rescue would only be rescuing Detection Dogs AFTER they were abandoned:
Hewad Azizi, who works for a company handling security at the airport, told Agence France-Presse that he looked for abandoned dogs as soon as the last American soldier left.
“When I saw (the soldiers leaving), I went to save the dogs,” he told AFP at a makeshift training center at the airport, which faces hangars once used for US aircraft and military equipment.
Azizi said he found 30 dogs, half of them in the area that was controlled by the Americans, and others were discovered in zones that belonged to former Afghan police.
I believe nothing about this dog being abandoned.
It’s so sappy the intended audience must be saps.
A group of Ukrainian soldiers has found a new recruit in the form of a sweet stray dog. In a viral video, the servicemen introduce their newest “recruit”: a puppy they are calling Rambo. They found Rambo on the street and decided to take him in. “We felt sorry for him. It was freezing outside,” the soldiers explain on camera. “We took him into our post, and he stayed with us.” Rambo is an adorable pup who is absolutely dwarfed by the soldiers in their combat gear. But still, he commands a presence (as puppies do), which might be why the troop refers to him as their “protector.” According to the soldiers, Rambo acts as a watchdog who can hear if a stranger is nearby. Great hearing might be the most physical protection he can offer, but Rambo is undoubtedly helping to preserve their morale as the fighting stretches on. The joy of a puppy certainly brings a little relief to dark days. 
VIDEO Meet Rambo and Other Adorable "Trench Pups" From Donbass https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEddHJkrKKs
Agree. Your comment does not ‘mesh’
So that’s what a Nazi dog looks like.
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Bomb-sniffing dog called hero after uncovering over 200 Russian bombs
VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIFc3yy2iKU
Agree. It's probably going to get a lot worse as reality sets in.
What a cuty! Did you see the stories a while ago about Hero Rat. This was a very large rat-like creature that was trained to find things like mines. Southeast Asia I think.
I'm very surprised it was not sourced from Daily Mail.
I like to say that they are so bad, that if the entire Ukraine Army surrended to the Russians, the Daily Mail headline would be
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