[Link] Georgia Blocked Hundreds of Foreign Fighters from Joining the Defence of Ukraine

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The commander of a Georgian-led contingent of foreign fighters in Ukraine has condemned the government in Tbilisi as “slaves of Putin” after it blocked a charter flight transporting foreign volunteers to Ukraine.

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[Link] We Followed a Foreign Fighter on His Way to Join the War in Ukraine

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PRZEMYŚL, Poland - In the dead of night outside the Polish town of Przemyśl, an ex-British soldier named Luke hopped into a taxi after flying from Birmingham, England earlier that day, and made his way to a nearby border checkpoint with one goal in mind: Joining the Ukrainian war effort.

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