When Ukrainian troops drove into liberated Kherson in November, greeted by ecstatic and tearful residents after eight months of repressive Russian occupation, the 22-year-old Vladislav had only one question for the soldiers. “I asked them, ‘How can I join you?’”
Six months later, after his first trip abroad for military training on Salisbury Plain, Vladislav is preparing for a new liberation, that of the hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians still living under occupation in the south and east claimed by Vladimir Putin as part of Russia.
#Ukraine: A Russian T-72B3 tank was destroyed by the Ukrainian 56th Motorized Brigade near Dubovo-Vasylivka, #Donetsk Oblast, after running over an anti-tank mine and then being finished off by AT fire. pic.twitter.com/BoYU23QBM3
— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) May 8, 2023
