Can foreign soldiers make a decisive difference on the battlefield for Ukraine? | DW News

Ukraine has made absolutely clear in recent months that it is running out of weapons, with growing concerns about recent Russian advances on the front lines.
After months of apparent stalemate, Ukraine withdrew its troops from the key eastern town of Avdiivka in mid-February. Moscow says it has since taken control of several villages around it. Kyiv is trying to reinforce its front lines - with soldiers from at least 30 different countries joining the fight.
DW’s Carolina Chimoy recently met two soldiers in the town of Kramatorsk in the Donetsk region who've traveled all the way from South America to help defend the country against Russia.

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[anantthakur]

A lot of them went back anyway, they realise that when it is an actual war and the enemy has the same firepower as yours and maybe sometimes more then they arent able to fight their way out. In the Middle East, asymmetrical warfare made easy work for mercenaries but when you fight fire with fire then you really come to grips that war is brutal and terrifying when we do get one.

[Logrowlf]

3000 a month is not much for putting your life on the line.

[johnnualda]

6:57 and Zelensky said 31k dead only?

[robertluvisia]

Many have moved back to their home countries.

[moonshah]

Ukrainian are living happily in UK and foreigners are fighting for Ukraine. Give an award to them.

[triglavbog]

But Zelensky said that he has 800 000 soldiers left.

[jammiefortier]

3K a month is hardly a mercenaries wage. The money is not the reason The Foreign Legion fighters are there, especially the North American and European soldiers.

[patrickgz]

outsourcing. its done in business, politics and wars, only referred with different labels

[jonathanjacob]

5:51 she responded. Just like you I am here making a living.

[herekitty]

Such a lack of diversity on the frontline

[Hexiad]

6:22 Love that she admits these are mercenaries.

[kirikoo]

I saw the strike on this house, There was a truck with soldiers on board that downloaded soldiers to this house immediately after the Russians blew it up completely.

[Kanvers_Martian]

Nato troops been fighting has mercenaries

[AH-fmrj]

With AI beginning to eliminate jobs at an exponentially increasing rate, by 2025, working as a foreign fighter may become the best job option for those currently employed in the finance and software sectors. 😅

[yyhkodu]

No. Ukraine is asking for weapons, not foreign soldiers.

[rajcallychurn]

How can we call kramatorsk ukranian when all the people that were interviewed spoke russian except the colombians.

[bobmalonza]

They are called mercenaries, not foreign fighters. And they can come in either as mercenaries or N_At_o

[johnofnz]

Aren't these guys technically mercenaries?

[DM_Laf]

Boris Johnson is going to the front ;)

[swimxyh]

For the point of correction, they are not international soldiers, they are machineries.