It will come back.The AMX-10 RC is a French armoured fighting vehicle manufactured by Nexter Systems for armoured reconnaissance purposes. A memory that I'll try to push, push, push behind, that I hopefully forget. The past had been secured in the bottom of their rucksacks - but the Dubliner admits that he won't be able to leave it all behind. After 17 months in places like Bakhmut and Zaporizhzhia, we watched them make their way to the train station, at the beginning of their long journey home. They may not be aware of what they're actually doing because it's quiet here, out there it's not."īyrne and his friend 'Polar' have had enough of the war. You know, they don't realise what they're doing. night-time you come out to go to the toilet, 'you guys alright?' and the guys wake up. No one is pressured to communicate but Panoma says the trauma generally makes itself known.
" is a source of some sort of support, you know, to sit there where are you from? You got kids? You know, basically to take their mind off the war." He says there are thousands of foreign volunteers fighting for Ukraine and many of them need someone to talk to. So, again, all of us are screaming, drive the Humvee, drive the Humvee. "Yeah, it's like a hot knife through butter. And that's terrifying when you see a big T-72 coming for you and you're in a Humvee pick-up. "Now we have the tank literally coming out, starting to chase us.
Spotted by Byrne's unit, they scrambled into the back but Byrne said they were spotted by the Russians.
In footage recorded on the Irishman's body camera, we see a unit member on his radio calling for assistance, as the tank shells landed nearby.Īmid the chaos, salvation appeared in the form of a Ukrainian pick-up truck, which had been driven into the area by a soldier looking for a missing satellite communication receiver. Those who survived took cover in the woods. Suddenly, it fired a shell into the middle of their position. Soldiers say it can be difficult to differentiate between Ukrainian and Russian vehicles. In the distance, another tank approached them and unit members assumed it was friendly. Image: Irishman Rhys Byrne, codename 'Rambo', has been fighting for Ukraine
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