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Ukrainians Return Home to Fight Russia: ‘I Have to Go’
wsj ^ | 28-FEB-2022 | Drew Hinshaw

Posted on 02/28/2022 9:03:23 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas

A Ukrainian tattoo artist blasting heavy metal in a black Opel pulled up to Poland’s border with Ukraine on Sunday, informing the immigration officers on duty that he was headed back to his home country to fight.

“Good,” a Polish officer told Nikita Azarkhin, 32, who stepped out and loaded a camouflage-print duffle bag full of first-aid kits onto a bus headed into Ukraine.

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Ukrainians from across Europe—part of a huge diaspora that has spread across the continent in the three decades since the former Soviet republic gained independence—are returning to their home country to pick up arms in their fight against Russia.

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[Polish and other European officials openly support the return of the Ukrainian émigrés, raising the possibility that Europe will become a staging ground for a war that could become a bloody, drawn-out conflict.

Non-Ukrainians are starting to join, too.]

Little Pukin is F*ed.

1 posted on 02/28/2022 9:03:23 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas
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[On one Facebook page that has been rallying volunteers to go and fight, a group of Belarusians living in Warsaw—a city that has long hosted that country’s exiled dissidents—said they had left for Kyiv: “They’ve gone to fight Russians,” said one of the Facebook organizers.]


2 posted on 02/28/2022 9:06:20 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas (Whenever a Russian soldier is killed, an Angel gets its wings)
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some 20,000 returned according to cable AM reports


3 posted on 02/28/2022 9:07:06 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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[Military transport trucks escorted by police have been driving back and forth across the Polish-Ukrainian border, dropping off weapons and ammunition. As they drive, they pass Ukrainian men seeking to hitchhike home.]


4 posted on 02/28/2022 9:07:48 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas (Whenever a Russian soldier is killed, an Angel gets its wings)
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To: All
FE7-E5-A90-14-F7-4314-8665-E9-DB6-A7894-AE
Here’s his chance!


5 posted on 02/28/2022 9:09:22 AM PST by AnthonySoprano (And the Wuhan Flu came from a food market and Joe Biden comes from the black community )
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[The stream of volunteers, and the full-throated support in European capitals, for Ukraine could herald a bloody guerrilla war against the Russian army.]


6 posted on 02/28/2022 9:09:35 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas (Whenever a Russian soldier is killed, an Angel gets its wings)
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The Ukes are Great. But Canadians are similar, its the reason why liberalsMarxist in Canada want to take our firearms away.

When government comes and wants to take all we earn via tax,redistibute wealth, take our land , run over our dogs , or borrow our wives, we turn into sprayers of lead. Thats why they call us hosers.

In Cnada the ex [pat aUkes are lining up at the Ukrainian embassey in Ottawa to go over and fight. I can hardly wait until the go and then return. They will aid greatly in the defeat of Trudeau and the Marxist Liberal party, along with the Freedom Convoy movement.


7 posted on 02/28/2022 9:11:12 AM PST by Candor7 (ObamaFascism:https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: PIF

“some 20,000 returned according to cable AM reports”

Warms my heart while Russian trolls are in tears.


8 posted on 02/28/2022 9:13:39 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas (Whenever a Russian soldier is killed, an Angel gets its wings)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

Yep!


9 posted on 02/28/2022 9:14:33 AM PST by rrrod (6)
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Sean Penn’s kid is going too. I heard that.


10 posted on 02/28/2022 9:18:16 AM PST by dforest (Freaking insane world.)
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Dear Vlad, please invade Mexico.


11 posted on 02/28/2022 9:18:55 AM PST by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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If only Vindman returned “home” to fight in a Penalty Brigade.


12 posted on 02/28/2022 9:19:00 AM PST by rlmorel (The concept of a "cashless society" is simply a vector for the exercise of tyranny.)
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It might, but don’t forget that guerillas need relatively safe sanctuary to rest, refit & re-supply. I don’t see that coming from NATO countries. An all the weapons that have been pledged? Where do you ship them?


13 posted on 02/28/2022 9:20:35 AM PST by Tallguy
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"Dear Vlad, please invade Mexico."

ROTFLMChristianFreeAmericanSuccessfulHairyWhiteUnsodomizedAO!!

14 posted on 02/28/2022 9:23:13 AM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country...


15 posted on 02/28/2022 9:23:41 AM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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Speedy - for all your yapping and war-mongering

Please tell us you are on your way to Ukraine now. Man up!


16 posted on 02/28/2022 9:23:50 AM PST by PGR88
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“It might, but don’t forget that guerillas need relatively safe sanctuary to rest, refit & re-supply. I don’t see that coming from NATO countries. An all the weapons that have been pledged? Where do you ship them?”

All the countries around Ukraine will provide safe haven, training, etc (Poland, Slovakia, Romania).

Weapons are shipped over land. Just truck the weapons to the border and hand them to the Ukrainians.


17 posted on 02/28/2022 9:26:31 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas (Whenever a Russian soldier is killed, an Angel gets its wings)
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To: dforest
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18 posted on 02/28/2022 9:26:34 AM PST by AnthonySoprano (And the Wuhan Flu came from a food market and Joe Biden comes from the black community )
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To: PGR88

Where do you live in Russia?


19 posted on 02/28/2022 9:27:01 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas (Whenever a Russian soldier is killed, an Angel gets its wings)
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To: Chode

“now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country

Typing class in high school.

Typed that sentence out many times.


20 posted on 02/28/2022 9:27:51 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas (Whenever a Russian soldier is killed, an Angel gets its wings)
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