By Rachel Marsden,

PARIS — Have you grown bored of working from home over the past couple of pandemic-plagued years? Do you long for an adventurous and exciting overseas working vacation? Well, you’re in luck because the “Ukrainian rebels” are hiring! They aren’t called that, officially. But neither is Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy doing a good job of clearly explaining the ramifications of westerners answering his appeal to join the fight against Russian soldiers in Ukraine.

Within just four days of armed hostilities between the NATO-weaponized, neo-Nazi integrated Ukraine forces and the Russian army, the former actor turned Ukrainian president made a dramatic plea: “All citizens of the world, friends of Ukraine … anyone who wants to join the defense of Ukraine, Europe and the world can come and fight side by side with the Ukrainians against the Russian war criminals,” Zelenskyy said. The country’s foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, followed up with an explanation of just how easy one could avail oneself of the opportunity. “Foreigners willing to defend Ukraine and world order as part of the International Legion of Territorial Defense of Ukraine, I invite you to contact foreign diplomatic missions of Ukraine in your respective countries,” Kuleba said.

And apparently several westerners heeded the call. We know this because they took to both traditional and social media to broadcast their presence in Ukraine. For instance, a “Canadian sniper” described ridiculously in media headlines as the “world’s deadliest”, posed for photos “high above the streets of Kyiv ready to greet the first Russian invader he sees with his .338 rifle,” according to Britain’s Daily Mail. Which is the kind of behavior that screams professional, top-tier covert operator.

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