Short memories and untrained civilians won’t do Ukraine any good

If volunteers for a Foreign Legion are ever to be anything more than simple cannon fodder, there needs to be a serious investment by Ukrainian authorities in equipping and training such a formation.
Early in the conflict, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called upon international volunteers to travel to Ukraine to fight the Russian invaders as part of a newly formed Foreign Legion.
OTTAWA—On Feb. 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin launched what is being called the “largest ground invasion of a European country” since the Second World War. The descriptors are carefully selected to make the current Russian breach of international law seem to be without precedent. For t...

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