Mykhailo Drapatyi: Can new Ukraine army chief alter Russia war’s direction?
- Kyiv, Ukraine — Ukrainian Colonel Mykhailo Drapatyi drove an armoured vehicle at breakneck speed through a barricade built by pro-Russian separatists who had just taken over the southeastern city of Mariupol.
- Another armoured vehicle followed Drapatyi’s to save police officers taken hostage by the separatists in an Interior Ministry building.
- It was May 9, 2014, and Ukrainian forces were locked in a battle for the country’s east against Russia, its soldiers, militias and local separatists backed by Moscow — a conflict that escalated into a full-blown war after Russia’s 2022 invasion.
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- Kyiv, Ukraine — Ukrainian Colonel Mykhailo Drapatyi drove an armoured vehicle at breakneck speed through a barricade built by pro-Russian separatists who had just taken over the southeastern city of Mariupol.
- Another armoured vehicle followed Drapatyi’s to save police officers taken hostage by the separatists in an Interior Ministry building.
- It was May 9, 2014, and Ukrainian forces were locked in a battle for the country’s east against Russia, its soldiers, militias and local separatists backed by Moscow — a conflict that escalated into a full-blown war after Russia’s 2022 invasion.
Sources: Al Jazeera