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Times
19-05-2025
- Politics
- Times
‘A life of crime taught us how to kill on the front line'
When he pulled a knife and robbed a jewellery shop in President Zelensky's home city of Kryvyhi Rih, the convict and career criminal codenamed 'Makar' was not thinking of a future in the army. Yet since he was freed from prison along with thousands of other Ukrainian convicts last summer on condition they fought at the front, the 47-year-old, now a respected and wounded veteran of Ukraine's 71st Jaeger Brigade, is certain that his life of crime and prison prepared him well for the stresses of war. Makar is proud to have commanded three other convicted thieves — Zippo, Alavarez and Dronik — in an assault team sent up against Russian positions near the gutted city of Vovchansk. 'The adrenaline rush I get in crime
Yahoo
15-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Ukrainian defenders repel Russian large-scale attack on Novopavlivka front in Donetsk Oblast
Paratroopers of the 71st Separate Jaeger Brigade together with other units of the Ukrainian defence forces have repelled a large-scale Russian attack on the Novopavlivka front in Donetsk Oblast. Source: 71st Separate Jaeger Brigade; press service of the Air Assault Forces Details: The Russians launched an attack with more than 20 armoured vehicles – several tanks and more than a dozen infantry fighting vehicles manned by infantrymen. Quote: "The iron fist was aimed at our positions and the borders of neighbouring units. The audacity of the attack was enormous, as the occupiers were marching in a convoy, hoping to break through our defences. Ahead of the armoured vehicles were motorcyclists who manoeuvred and tried to break through the lines of our paratroopers at high speed. Intelligence spotted the enemy forces in time, and the coordinated actions of artillerymen and drone pilots of the 71st Jaeger Brigade and neighbouring units broke the enemy's battle formation and then methodically destroyed it. The equipment was left to burn on the battlefield. The scattered infantrymen tried to hide in the landing, but were killed by FPV drones and other explosives." Support Ukrainska Pravda on Patreon!
