Posted on 02/25/2022 6:57:45 PM PST by Jonty30
Former heavyweight boxing champion Vitali Klitschko said he would take up arms alongside his brother and fellow world beater, Wladimir, to fight in a “bloody war” following Russia’s invasion of their home country Ukraine.
Russia launched its invasion by land, air and sea on Thursday. An estimated 100,000 people have fled as explosions and gunfire rocked major cities. More than 100 have been reported killed.
Vitali Klitschko, who has been the mayor of Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, since 2014, said he was ready to fight.
Ukrainian soldiers take positions in downtown Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, Feb. 25, 2022. Russia pressed its invasion of Ukraine to the outskirts of the capital Friday after unleashing airstrikes on cities and military bases and sending in troops and tanks from three sides in an attack that could rewrite the global post-Cold War security order. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti) Fighting reaches Kyiv as Russian invasion of Ukraine intensifies Read more “I don’t have another choice, I have to do that. I’ll be fighting,” the 50-year-old, known as Dr Ironfist during his boxing days, told broadcaster ITV’s Good Morning Britain.
Vitali Klitschko said Kyiv was under threat and the main priority was to work with police and military forces to support critical infrastructure, including the delivery of electricity, gas and water for its citizens.
He said civilians were ready to defend Kyiv as soldiers.
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I heard they even let former President Poroshenko out of jail to fight in the streets.
Wow. That’s news.
This is where some convicts can pay their dues.
now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country...
“This is where some convicts can pay their dues.”
It make sense to empty the jails, and give them machine guns on the way out. Even criminals are patriots, and if the goal is a sustained insurgency any underground networks will be vital.
Would make a great movie—kind of a Rocky-Rambo crossover.
Where are the Vindman brothers???
Is Hunter going to the Ukraine to fight for his launder, um brother from another mother, country?
Always loved the Klitschko brothers.
OH Yeah...
You'd think that after Hunter was paid over $4 million by Burisma he'd consider himself an honorary Ukrainian and feel honor bound to join the fight. Even a crackhead should be worth something in a fight, even if just for cannon fodder.
Poroshenko was and is an idiot. His blatant attempts to erase Russian culture and ties in Ukraine is one of the reasons he will soon be staring down the barrel of a gun
One of them married Schumer.
That much I know.
LOLOL...
I am old and busted up but I may as well go out in a blaze of glory if Russia moves in to Poland. Bialystok or Gdansk will get me there. Even if I can’t do anything but help cook meals or wash the uniforms of the fighting men. It is sad I can’t say I would go defend our own southern border our tyrannical government would shoot me to defend the invasion of third world invaders.
Hunter can name himself Ramblow
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