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US volunteer in Ukraine says he's so close to action he can 'smell Russians'

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Ukraine in April to fight against Vladimir Putin's Russian invaders.He's now in the thick of it, and took to Twitter on April 30 to describe the apocalyptic scenes he and other fighters have to endure, most likely in the east of Ukraine, Russia."No base to go back to.

You’re in the shit. Mortars all around day and night, no bathroom, no shower nothing. So close to the front I can smell Russians," he said.Vasquez, who served two tours in Iraq and one in Afghanistan, was explaining the difference between fighting in Kyiv and his new post, outside the capital. "At my new duty station.

This is definitely roughing it. Lots of mortar fire. The fresh air has been replaced with the smell of gunpowder," the father-of-four said.A few weeks ago, Vasquez bemoaned the state of the weaponry that his unit has had to put up with, saying in a now deleted tweet that "we will not win with trash weapons.""Give us some f****** weapons please.

We will not win with trash weapons. We need m-16’s M-4’s, ACOG’s, red dots, ammunition, ammunition, ammunition, javelins, f****** old AT-4s I know are probably in some storage unit."Frag grenades, and if not… may as well bring Body bags," the full tweet read.After arriving in Warsaw on March 14, Mr Vasquez joined up with the Foreign Legion and appears to have been in the thick of the fighting ever since.For more of the latest showbiz and TV news from the Daily Star, make sure you sign up to one of our newsletters here.In early April he claimed that Russian soldiers had been abandoning their dead to the mercy of wild dogs.He said: "Russians refuse to take their dead.

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