Warning about Ryan Routh: he is not, and never has been, associated with the International Legion or the Ukrainian Armed Forces at all. He is not, & never has been, a legion recruiter. He is misrepresenting himself and lying to many people.
Routh is currently posting on Facebook about getting Afghanistan citizens into the International Legion. He told the New York Times in 2023 that he wanted to get soldiers into Ukraine illegally.
Ryan Routh has many many public Facebook posts about getting soldiers into Ukraine in 2023 and 2024. He has no authority to act on behalf of Ukraine, and ignores laws about visas.
Routh is either human trafficking, scamming people, or attempting to break as many country’s laws as he can by trying to smuggle people into Ukraine to fight. This is unethical, unprofessional, and unacceptable. Worse, he is doing this by insisting he is helping Ukraine.
Other issues: Routh has posted soldiers phone numbers on websites without permission; given out recruiters phone numbers to people without permission; manipulates people to breaking laws. Avoid any contact with Routh, as he misrepresents what he can legally do.
I served in the International Legion for two years, and I've told Routh many times since 2022 that he's not helping and what he's going is illegaly. He doesn't listen.
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We need to talk about the Weatherman Foundation, both their work & their president. I first dealt with them in early 2023 while serving in the International Legion in Ukraine, & Weatherman was trying to take over different processes handling killed in action soldiers’.
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When I explained the Ukrainian army has a procedure for repatriation of soldier’s bodies & belongings to their home country, & involving a foreign NGO has legal & ethical issues, employees of Weatherman got argumentative & insulted Ukraine’s handling of soldier repatriation.
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Weatherman refused to listen & directly contacted funeral companies to ask to have KIA soldiers’ urn given to them. It's clear that Weatherman had no real idea how Ukrainian military procedures work & very little respect for Ukrainian soldiers or officers.
1🧵I’m an LGBT+ soldier and a 2 year veteran of the International Legion in Ukraine. I have serious concerns about the public behavior of Ukraine’s most well-known LGBT soldier, Sarah Ashton-Cirillo. Full disclosure: I met her in Aug 2022, & had some private issues with her.
2🧵 I first spoke to @SarahAshtonLV in Sep 2022, & met with her for an interview for LGBTQ+ Nation in Kharkiv on 30 Sep. She was interested in talking to another out soldier in Ukraine. I’d had a difficult 6 months in the legion, due to 2 missile strikes & homophobia I endured.
@SarahAshtonLV 3🧵 She pressed me for information, and I agreed to talk about the issues in the battalion I served with– but off the record, and she couldn’t record our conversation.
The interview she did with me never ran. When I reached out to her in October, she didn’t reply.