Ukraine war: Irish fighter ‘Rambo’ describes ‘terrifying’ Russian tank chase – ‘all of us were screaming’
Yahoo News – July 11, 2023
If Ukraine’s counteroffensive has moved more slowly than many in the West had hoped, it has also proven more costly in terms of human lives.
The fighting has been brutal – and bloody – as the Russians use mass artillery and minefields to defend territory seized earlier in the war.
An information blackout has been imposed by the Ukrainians to protect operational tactics, but post-battle accounts by individual combatants reveal the perilous nature of the fighting at the front.
The toll, both physically and emotionally, has been considerable.
Sky News has interviewed two foreign volunteers who have been fighting in the Ukrainian army for the past 17 months. Their accounts have been supported by additional testimony provided by several other foreign volunteers.
Rhys Byrne, codename ‘Rambo’, is a spirited 28-year-old from Dublin. He has fought for a number of units in Ukraine, including the 59th brigade in the Ukrainian territorial army where he operated a heavy machine gun.
He says the battle to reclaim territory has been horrific. “On ‘zero line’ it’s horror. It’s horror. There is just a genocide. It’s slaughter.
“There are dead people everywhere. Russians dead. Ukrainian people dead…. the biggest problem we get when we’re going into trenches is stepping over all the dead bodies that are already there from the last people [who] went in – that kind of stuff really haunts you.”
We met him at a respite centre in eastern Ukraine, a sanctuary used by army volunteers who have been granted leave from the front.
‘The final straw’
Byrne told us about an engagement that he called “the final straw” – an encounter with a Russian tank and Russian troops – that nearly got him killed.
He says: “We were told there [was] a Russian trench line and our job is to go into the trenches and clear them out and hold them until the auxiliary units come and then we go back.”
The unit, with 40 members – including Ukrainians, Americans and Britons – were taken to a staging area near the front or ‘zero line’ – but Byrne said they had no air cover, or drones, and a pair of Ukrainian tanks withdrew from their position.
In the distance, another tank approached them and unit members assumed it was friendly. Soldiers say it can be difficult to differentiate between Ukrainian and Russian vehicles.
Suddenly, it fired a shell into the middle of their position. Those who survived took cover in the woods.
In footage recorded on the Irishman’s body camera, we see a unit member on his radio calling for assistance, as the tank shells landed nearby.
Scrambling into back of truck
Amid the chaos, salvation appeared in the form of a Ukrainian pick-up truck, which had been driven into the area by a soldier looking for a missing satellite communication receiver.
Spotted by Byrne’s unit, they scrambled into the back but Byrne said they were spotted by the Russians. An enemy tank began to chase them.
“Now we have the tank literally coming out, starting to chase us. And that’s terrifying when you see a big T-72 coming for you and you’re in a Humvee pick-up.
“Yeah, it’s like a hot knife through butter. You’re finished. So, again, all of us are screaming, drive the Humvee, drive the Humvee. I was going mental.”
His friend and colleague, a Danish fighter nicknamed ‘Polar’, was sat next to him in the Humvee. He watched a Russian shell sail over their heads.
“We are not supposed to be alive. I mean, we were closer than close to death, it was closer than close… it was really f***** up.”
This sanctuary for soldiers is run by a muscular pastor called Owen Panoma. The New Zealander has also served as a chaplain to a number of Ukrainian brigades.
He says there are thousands of foreign volunteers fighting for Ukraine and many of them need someone to talk to.
“[The centre] is a source of some sort of support, you know, to sit there [and ask] where are you from? You got kids? You know, basically to take their mind off the war.”
No one is pressured to communicate but Panoma says the trauma generally makes itself known.
“They sleep talk. They scream. [In the] night-time you come out to go to the toilet, ‘you guys alright?’ and the guys wake up. You know, they don’t realise what they’re doing. They may not be aware of what they’re actually doing because it’s quiet here, out there it’s not.”
Byrne and his friend ‘Polar’ have had enough of the war. After 17 months in places like Bakhmut and Zaporizhzhia, we watched them make their way to the train station, at the beginning of their long journey home.
The past had been secured in the bottom of their rucksacks – but the Dubliner admits that he won’t be able to leave it all behind.
“It should become a memory for me. That’s all it will be. A memory that I’ll try to push, push, push behind, that I hopefully forget. [But] I know it’ll haunt me. It will come back.”
Sky News – July 12, 2023
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“Rhys Byrne, codename ‘Rambo’, is a spirited 28-year-old from Dublin.”
No he’s not. He’s a total creep who would rather go kill people he has no quarrel with rather than help defend his own country from mass invasion. A typical total left wing twat, in other words.
Full of lies. The Russians aren’t commiting genocide, unlike the UKrainian Nazis.
These men are not volunteers. They are mercenaries. Professional killers, and professional liars.
A standard Russian tactic, to withdraw, leaving a vacuum, thicko Nazis flood in, and Russia shells the Nazi tw@ts to death. The Nazis are so thicko, they keep advancing into death traps, because their Nazi leader, and his Nazi leaders in the West, demand they advance at any cost.
I think the Russians are happy for this to continue until the UKrainian Nazis are forced to pause. This could be any time, maybe a few weeks, and then Russia will be on the front foot, especially as Vilnius was a completely NATO failure. Bitch Nuland, we’re fecking laffing at you, you Jew retard. lol
plea for israel to stop all terrorism
from a british trade union
maybe we should start burning down synagogues and jews houses
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2023/07/15/707101/UK%E2%80%99s-2nd-largest-trade-union-backs-anti-Israel-boycott-movement
These people are idiots. Manipulated into believing they’re fighting for the “good guys”, and, of course, thinking they’re being “manly” by going to fight in a war that has nothing to do with them – “rambo” FFS. What exactly does someone like him think would be “good” about (if he could) killing any number of russians? I just bet he thinks that every russian wants to “take over the world”. He, like you, are just pathetic useless toys being played with by the handful of fascist scum that own you. If he, or you, had a brain, instead of going off to the other side of the world and killing strangers, he’d walk to “parliament” and kill the people in there.
A commenter on Canadian Prepper’s site says his nephew is a new marine and is heading to Poland next week. The neo-cons just can’t admit wrong or defeat, can they? I’m not religious but the bible is full of warnings about people like them.
He’s not Irish, under all those layers of camouflage, he is obviously Jewish. For anyone who doubts this, stop the video at the 1:47 and the 4:45 minute marks and take a close look at the head, mouth, black beard. Note the aggressive, in your face demeanor, wiggerish swagger, the absolute mess of tattoos. Despite the Irish name and accent, that’s not an Irishman. Byrne has the Jewish lower boot lip and wide philtrum/cupid bow upper lip which is somewhat concealed with hair. The Irish are very light skinned and have longish heads this guy has a roundish head and cappuccino hued skin. Not an Irishman.
In N. Ireland the Irish can even tell who is Catholic or Protestant on sight. What a laugh that a Irishman would go and fight for Ukraine while Ireland, thanks to Jews, is being invaded and inundated by black, brown, yellow, Muslim parasites. Kiev had twenty thousand invaders from India, why didn’t they fight for Ukraine instead of running like hell when the fighting started? To ask is to laugh.
The N. Zealand ‘pastor’ is another genetic piece of mystery meat.
That Dumb Mick should get a clue…
and spend more time defending Ireland’s borders from invasion 🙄
lrish Rambo..professional imbecile…
murders Russians for the same people that are turning his homeland into Haiti..
for shekels..
and if he’s lucky enough not to catch a Sarmat or go to pieces.. in some other manner…
..when he gets back home he can look forward to living on the streets of Dublin in a bin bag..his Oirish eyes full of tears..
..his ex-wife/partner pregnant with another Congolese leprechaun..
NB: of course Oirish Rambo..may very well be a theatrical production courtesy or the Yahoo Yahudists..in fact very likely…
But my previous comment stands as testament to the absolute fucking ‘aimlessness’ of most of imbecile kind…
Rambo is going back to Ireland maybe back on his game-boy or he could switch on his TV and watch as his country is invaded by the turd world. No doubt the fat kiwi will be saying a few hail Mary’s for his parishioners back home as they languish in Ardern’s prison island. Them Ruskies obviously haven’t read the script it should read wrap a towel round your head,put on sandals and just fight with an AK47
No-one learning from history: Yid-man kills as many Whites as he can, and draws out the conflict as long as possible; the distracting details are all to that purpose
What a wanker – what the xxxx is he doing there – it’s not his fight – let’s face it – he’s nothing but a murderer for hire – the lowest of the low
Rhys Byrne, codename ‘Bimbo’.
Looks more like an Irish Sambo! 🤣
I have no sympathies for mercenaries. They choose to engage in this war. Any fool who ignores how this whole war is run by the globalists for their own gains cannot be pitied. Now BlackRock and JPMorgan Chase, and a slew of others, are all set to step in and reap the trillions from “rebuilding Ukraine.” It was always only ever about the money, taking it from tax payers and funneling it to wealthy oligarchs and corporate heads. WTFU, people!
I find it highly unlikely that this thing is a yid. Flat out, it’s a paddy-mic irish thing ….. they haven’t been called “Inside Out N-ggers”, for centuries, without very good reason.
So, some inside out n-gger runs around calling itself “rambo” and we’re not supposed to KNOW that only a paddy-mic inside out n-gger irish thing is the only thing stupid enough to do that?
TOO forkin’ funny!
Anything coming out of Yahoo News should be viewed with the knowledge that it is owned by Verizon, which in turn is owned by the Predator Class. They are very obviously pushing the Woke Agenda – which includes the current theatre in Ukraine.
Caveat Emptor.
“his multinational unit…”
Wait, I thought diversity was their strength? LOL. You can imagine how it went easily enough can’t you? “No, no, you hold the machine gun, because you’re blacker.” Or perhaps: “let me go first because my ancestors enslaved yours”. Or more likely, they just didn’t understand each other’s language or accent, or else they thought the muslim would save the christian, or the catholic would save the satanist.
It’s nice for all these multinational “fighters” to be able to get on a train and leave isn’t it? It’s not so nice for the jew-kranians that have nowhere to go…
Not just this jerk. All past & present.
(mercenary types)
‘Terrified’ ‘screaming in fear’ well yeah duhhhhh !
1461, Towton, Horrific. barbaric in the extreme.
Hell on earth, you don’t need to know anything more,
no one needs to be there, who hasn’t been forced into the dilemma.
@ Tony O’Neil, Bang on,
Brit Navy same, Looking out for the ‘welfare’ of Jimmy Grant, while they should be defending the coast line. (I ask, Just what is the reason for passports anymore & border crossing ‘checks’ ?)
When people scoff at the , “They made Good as Evil, Evil as good” statement, That’s it right there in reality, the 180o flip.
Didn’t watch/hear any of it, only about 50,000 waking seconds per day and so many things to learn and think about.
What’s he going to tell that would be of any worth to me?
Btw, this guy is gay (obvious) and his motives for jumping into trenches are a bit murky, wouldn’t you think?
How could Rambo survive 17 months in the east? Pretty well made video. The guy with the video camera had to be the more ballsy if the whole thing wasn’t fake.
Western leaders met in Warsaw not so long ago to decide how to carve up the Russian empire when Russia is defeated. Mercenaries arriving in Kiev, when asked, why are you here? all say the same thing, “we are here to kill Russians”. they say ignorance is bliss, totally oblivious to history! Is it no wonder why Putin has 95% backing from Russian people.
I attended a big Irish Cultural Festival yesterday in the American Midwest. Attendees were almost all Irish-Americans. Some musicians and dancers were from Ireland.
I didn’t see anybody who resembled “Rambo.”
As I looked around, studying the physical characteristics, aka phenotypes, of the people around me, I was saddened that they were all apparently unaware of what the Jews are doing to Ireland. I did make one comment to the woman at the ticket booth. She hadn’t any idea what I was talking about.
“Rambo.’ Yeah. He resembles Johnathan Greenblat. “Schlomo” is more like it.