Important message for people thinking about volunteering to join the war in #Ukraine (🇺🇦).
“Advice to volunteers: This isn’t a game. What we are witnessing is a scale of combat that’s unprecedented in modern times. I’m an infantry veteran…
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… of the battles of Fallujah and Ramadi and even I’m questioning my qualifications for this. If you aren’t a professional soldier, don’t get involved.
Watching YouTube videos and receiving civilian level training just isn’t good enough. I’m sorry, I know…
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… you want to help, but it’s not good enough. You can help more by staying out of it.
Your ignorance of conventional warfare will get yourself, or those around you killed. Light discipline. Crossing danger areas. Treating sucking chest wounds. Self-aid, buddy aid.
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Eighteen Il-76 aircraft have reportedly taken off from Pskov and are heading to Kyiv, #Ukraine (🇺🇦).
The military transport aircraft will arrive in roughly one hour. Pskov a Russian city near the border with Estonia and Latvia.
These aircraft will likely try to land at the Hostomel military airport near Kyiv, which was reportedly taken by the Russian forces.
Let’s hope the Ukrainians have their Stingers ready to fire.
The Russian are able to airdrop an entire BMD-4M battalion with 15 Il-76 aircraft. This is a major reinforcement for Russia’s advance to the capital of #Ukraine.