{"id":1376660,"date":"2022-03-14T19:22:58","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T23:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1376660"},"modified":"2022-03-14T19:23:03","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T23:23:03","slug":"dozens-of-foreign-volunteers-abandon-ukraine-for-poland-after-russian-missiles-strike-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dozens-of-foreign-volunteers-abandon-ukraine-for-poland-after-russian-missiles-strike-base\/","title":{"rendered":"Dozens of Foreign Volunteers Abandon Ukraine for Poland After Russian Missiles Strike Base"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdozens-of-foreign-volunteers-abandon-ukraine-for-poland-after-russian-missiles-strike-base%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1376660&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Dozens of foreigners who volunteered to fight for the International Legion in Ukraine have abandoned the country and recrossed the border into Poland following a Russian missile strike on their training base, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>At least <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/03\/13\/russians-blast-base-training-foreign-volunteers-near-polish-border-35-dead\/\">30 cruise missiles<\/a> pounded the International Peacekeeping and Security Center in\u00a0Yavoriv, just 15 miles from the border of Poland \u2014 a NATO and European Union member-state \u2014 over the weekend, with the Ukrainian authorities admitting to 35 fatalities while the Russians <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mod_russia\/status\/1503231542444896264\">claim<\/a> they inflicted \u201cup to 180\u201d fatalities on \u201cforeign mercenaries\u201d and destroyed a large stockpile of Western armaments.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe destruction of foreign mercenaries will continue,\u201d a Russian defence ministry spokesman <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mod_russia\/status\/1503231542444896264\">warned<\/a> in a Monday press briefing shared on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Britain\u2019s right-leaning <em>Telegraph<\/em> newspaper, which is close to the British government, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/world-news\/2022\/03\/13\/fight-not-foreign-volunteers-deadly-russian-attack-ukraine-training\/?li_source=LI&#038;li_medium=liftigniter-rhr\">reported<\/a> that \u201ca few dozen dazed survivors from the strike began returning over the Polish border, many apparently re-assessing their decision to take up arms\u201d on Sunday night in the wake of the strike.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">These images have emerged of the Yavoriv military training base in western Ukraine. A Russian airstrike hit the base  which is just 25 km from the Polish border.\u00a0At least 35\u00a0people have been killed and 134 wounded <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UkraineWar?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UkraineWar<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/h4rxrEANmk\">pic.twitter.com\/h4rxrEANmk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Yalda Hakim (@BBCYaldaHakim) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCYaldaHakim\/status\/1502983608038047747?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 13, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Before becoming a training site for foreign volunteers, the Yavoriv facility was used to train members of the Ukrainian armed forces, with instructors often supplied by the United States and other NATO members \u2014 to the chagrin of a Russian government keen to see Ukraine remain a Russia-aligned or at least neutral buffer state rather than a hostile NATO ally.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Telegraph<\/em> said they heard \u201caccents from the U.S., Ireland, America, Germany, and Britain\u201d among the \u201cbedraggled figures\u201d who survived the Russian strike, and at least one Swedish volunteer with experience fighting alongside\u00a0Kurdish People\u2019s Protection Units in Syria.<\/p>\n<p>The British news outlet said the veteran returned to Poland with no intention of returning to Ukraine, paraphrasing him as having said that the current war \u201cwas nothing like Syria and Iraq\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>One volunteer described their experience of the strike as \u201cHell on Earth\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We condemn the Russian Federation\u2019s missile attack on the International Center for Peacekeeping and Security in Yavoriv, close to Ukraine\u2019s border with Poland. The brutality must stop.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Secretary Antony Blinken (@SecBlinken) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SecBlinken\/status\/1503127191713984517?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 13, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>With the war in Ukraine having previously been concentrated in the country\u2019s east, the strike so close to NATO territory has heightened tensions with the bloc, which has not entered the bloc directly but is supplying Ukraine with armaments and punishing Russia with sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. President Joe Biden\u2019s Secretary of State Antony Blinken <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SecBlinken\/status\/1503127191713984517?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1503127191713984517%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fwp-admin%2Fpost-new.php\">tweeted<\/a> American condemnation of the strike, declaring that \u201c[t]he brutality must stop\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan has claimed that NATO would retaliate in the event even of an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/russian-missile-western-ukraine-35-0884935a-ec2c-49c5-a94c-aaa31676f9dc.html\">accidental<\/a> shot by the Russians into NATO territory.<\/p>\n<p>Sajid Javid, a senior member of Prime Minister Boris Johnson\u2019s government in the United Kingdom, also\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/live\/2022\/mar\/14\/uk-politics-live-boris-johnson-russia-ukraine-nato-sajid-javid-michael-gove?page=with:block-622efd118f087f6d099f6a0c#block-622efd118f087f6d099f6a0c\">stressed<\/a> that \u201cEven if a single Russian toecap steps into NATO territory, then it will be considered an act of war,\u201d likely due to Yavoriv\u2019s close proximity to Poland.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I want to be clear: We will defend every inch of NATO territory with the full might of a united and galvanized NATO.<\/p>\n<p>But we will not fight a war against Russia in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>A direct confrontation between NATO and Russia is World War III. And something we must strive to prevent.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 President Biden (@POTUS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/POTUS\/status\/1502353759455821833?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 11, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h5 class=\"western\"><em><span>Follow Jack Montgomery on Twitter:<\/span><\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackBMontgomery\"><span>@JackBM<\/span><\/a><\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackBMontgomery\"><span>ontgomery<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n<h5 class=\"western\"><em><span>Follow Breitbart London on Facebook:<\/span><\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BreitbartLondon\/\"><span>Breitbart London<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dozens of foreigners who volunteered to fight for the International Legion in Ukraine have abandoned the country and recrossed the border into Poland following a Russian missile strike on their<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1376660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1376660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1376660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1376660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1376660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}