Ukrainians have proven they will never surrender, a former US marine who lives in the country has said, while warning Vladimir Putin will nevertheless keep on coming until his own people remove him from power.
John Sennett, 57, currently lives in western Ukraine with Belarusian wife Natasha – but, speaking days before Friday’s first anniversary of the invasion, he is already planning to return to the apartment they own in Kyiv.
Mr Sennett, who as a former soldier himself has specific insights into the way the conflict has developed, told Express.co.uk: “We were in Kyiv at that point which was the main focus of the attack and once we saw old people going out and standing in front of tanks we were like, ‘Oh, the Russians are gonna get nowhere at this point’.
“Now, of course, there was fear, because we didn’t know what they had in their arsenals, we didn’t know what kind of tactics they were going to use.
“But their tactics became very apparent very quickly, they didn’t even start really hitting us with heavy missiles until six months into the war.”
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