The given passage is an extract from the book “To the Last Ukrainian: An American War” by Régis Le Sommier, who was embedded in both Ukrainian and Russian armies.
The book chronicles the perfidy of politicians and the tragedy of ordinary soldiers who are caught up as pawns in the machinations of geopolitics. The book is available for purchase on Amazon or Barnes and Noble.
In a different article, the author narrates an encounter with an American military veteran named Carl Larson, who was in charge of selecting international recruits and training a unit deployed to the Kharkiv front.
The author, who was a journalist, and his companions, who were French volunteers, encountered Larson, who was referred to as “the Grinch” due to his grumpy personality.
Larson initially mistook the journalist and his partner for volunteers and instructed them to turn off their international phones or get local SIM cards.
However, upon learning that they were journalists, he asked them to leave. The author later discovered that Larson was one of the American instructors who came to help the Ukrainian army fight against Russia.
