18 year old Ukrainian volunteers off to war in Kyiv. Three days training and they will be on ...

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Cheryl Brooks Retweeted

18 year old Ukrainian volunteers off to war in Kyiv. Three days training and they will be on the front line.

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[femmedem]

1. Heartbreaking.

This tweet is from March 4. I hope they are all still alive.

[Throck]

2. Volunteers or voluntold?

I thought all Ukrainian men 18-60 were automatic conscripts? (Old news articles.)

[peggysue2]

3. Good God! I remember my own sons at eighteen

So young to be sent into a vicious war front.

May they come back home alive and whole!

[Aristus]

4. My grandson will be twenty-two in a few months, and he's still my baby.

I can't imagine him having to be thrust into situations like these young men are facing.

[peggysue2]

6. Absolutely agree!

My sons are grown men. They will always be my babies.

But yes, twenty-two is still so very young, first steps into adulthood.

After you've witnessed a baby to a child to a teenager grow and develop, it's heartbreaking to think of them on a battlefield.

Doesn't matter if it's always been this way--young men sent into horrific wars. For those who love them, know them?

Gut-wrenching. The stuff of nightmare. Even when the cause is righteous.

[Efilroft Sul]

5. These kids should instead be playing soccer with my 18-year-old son. Thanks, dipshit Putin.

Putin and Trump have been the twin engines of destruction for this world.

[BootinUp]

7. Hang in there lads. Nt