My interview with Kanyuk, from Flash Battalion, on how he volunteered to fight for Ukraine, became a drone pilot, got injured... and how he wants to get back in the fight as soon as he recovers.
"It's just a flesh wound!" 😁
I filmed this about a month ago; for his safety I had to wait until he got out of hospital and left Kyiv to actually publish the video.
I didn't know it at the time. But it turns out I actually spoke to Kanyuk and another soldier at his position a few months ago. They had a problem with their generator, and I was helping them debug it. In the end I found a replacement generator small enough to fly into forward positions on a vampire drone, a technique that we used for a different forward position that had also lost its generator.
Most of the donations I've been getting have been through the $LADA memecoin. But I'm also accepting Bitcoin donations:
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Peter Todd
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