r/ukraineforeignlegion

Long story short, I’m on my 2 week vacation. I’m supposed to come back to Ukraine in three days. However, one of my family members recently got quite sick, and I wanted to spend some extra time with them. My platoon, company, and battalion commander all said it’s okay for me to come back 4 days after I was usually supposed to come back which is nice of them.

However, do you guys think I will have problems at the border, if the border guards see I’m 4 days late? Does anyone have experience with this? Will I get detained for being SZCh even though I have verbal permissions from all my COs?

Hello everyone!

I was wondering how I can deal with tinnitus caused by gunfire, it's been going on for several months due to some people giving the advice to not wear hearing protection for a variety of reasons. But now I am very young guy dealing with some bad tinnitus, this is someone that used to have excellent hearing.

I feel that I can listen to music, talk and hear, just fine. But I have this awful high pitched ring that has lasted for months. So it's probably permanent, and I'm not going to lie, I'm quite upset about it, but I know I need to move forward.

What are some steps I can take to get rid of it, or atleast make it better. It's fortunately not debilitating but slightly annoying. Also the place around my one ear just feels very weird, like congested, but it isn't, it's achy all the time, I can constantly feel it.

Please protect your ears and don't be an idiot like me, don't give in to peer pressure, no one is invincible and we are all physical people who have limits no matter how young or tough we think we are.

Thank you all for any help.

Slava Ukraini

Hello Hero's!

Just wanted to make a fun post on your different loadouts. I know it means little to nothing, just curious as to what you guys rock.

I see many others use extremely expensive equipment, like lasers and suppressors, yet iron sights. That really intrigues me! Or others who run open emitter optics that seem to never get clogged up, like the 510C from holosun! Others insist on using an lpvo with a small piggyback red dot. And dont even get me started on thermals, many run them as primary optics to.

What loadouts do you run, and why do you run them. How does it fit your role?

Hallo, ich möchte seit Kriegsbeginn helfen, bin aber definitiv kein Soldat. Ich verfüge über umfangreiche medizinische Erfahrung und bin in Labormedizin ausgebildet. Außerdem habe ich mehrere Jahre im OP gearbeitet und bin mit den dortigen Abläufen vertraut.

Gibt es freie Stellen für jemanden wie mich? Mein Leben ist mir sehr wichtig, deshalb möchte ich nicht an Kampfeinsätzen teilnehmen. Ich komme aus Deutschland und bin bereit, mein Land für längere Zeit zu verlassen.

I would also be interested in working with and recovering deceased individuals, provided that the recovery takes place outside of an active battlefield.

Certified fpv drone operator, software developer, expert in AI, 2 years volunteer in a European army, I ask if there are units/positions that deal with fixing construction and maintenance of drones. I want to come and help.

Hey guys, bit of a weird situation and im wondering if anyone here has actually dealt with something similar.
Im 31, born in Lviv in 1995. My dad was a Ukrainian citizen, my mum is Czech. I left Ukraine with her when I was 2 and grew up in Czechia. I live in Germany now and I’ve only ever had a Czech passport. No Ukrainian passport, no military papers, nothing like that.
I want to go to Uzhhorod next week to see my grandma. I haven’t been in Ukraine since 2019 and she’s not doing too well. I’d probably stay with my aunt for a while and help around the house because most of the men in the family aren’t around now.
The problem is my family there have kind of freaked me out: They keep telling me guys get checked by TCC all the time and the neighbours might snitch on me, if I stay around and because my Czech passport says UKR as place of birth and my dad was Ukrainian, somebody might decide im Ukrainian too and then I could have a problem getting out again.
I honestly always assumed I was just Czech because that’s the only passport I’ve ever had.
I emailed the Ukrainian consulate in Munich and they told me there’s a high chance I got Ukrainian citizenship by birth because my dad was Ukrainian when I was born, but they said it has to be officially checked, but that would take weeks.
I also contacted TCC because I can’t use Reserve+ to check if I am in the list, as I have no Ukrainian BankID to check myself.
What I really want to know is whether anyone here has actually been in this situation recently:
born in Ukraine, left as a little kid, only foreign passport, no Ukrainian documents.
Did you get into Ukraine normally with the foreign passport?
And more importantly, did you get back out again without problems?
Also did anyone ever get some kind of paper from a consulate/TCC/migration office before travelling that proved what their status was?
Any tips on how to prevent TCC officers checking you in the street?
Thanks

I'll keep it pretty brief. This might seem like a stupid question, but is there a way to discern which positions are offered to foreigners on unit recruiting sites?

Say I take the common drone units, 411 or 427 or Scythian: how would be able to figure out which roles are offered to (primarily) english speakers on the USF page?

I recognize that I can contact their respective recruiters, but I don't want to waste their time if it's something I can find out on my own.

I just turned 18 and I've been thinking about joining for a while. My original plan was to join my nations special ops but I have had moral conflicts with that. I am firefighter, emt, and hazmat certified due to volunteering for my local fire department. I'm able to run a mile in under 5 minutes (I do track as a main sport) bench 205, 10 pulls ups ect I think I'm physically able to do it but I'm not sure how realistic it is with my lack of military experience and age. Any advice is greatly appreciated

I quit my job, trained for months, even booked my flight...but few days before going my shoulder dislocated (first time).

Do I just pray my recovery is complete and in a reasonable time period? From what I see online, it can take from few weeks to months, and that is under the assumption Im lucky enough to recover fully.

My goal is to join assault infantry.

After reading and reading 411 seems the most fitting unit for me. Now the main question, funding I'll be coming from the UK how much is a sensible amount to bring to last me until I'm fully in the unit. My problem is my funds rn ain't crazy high right now. Worst case I can save for a few months. That thought fucking sucks though. I want to be doing something asap. Ill stop with the debbie downer moment and ask how have others felt working with 411 ? A normal day to day within 411 would be good to hear about too

Hello,

I tried looking up this question online and only got generic answers that I already tried (using the meds I brought), so I'm hoping that there are people here who have gone through what I'm going through and figured out a solution. I'm finally here and I have gotten sick already, the usual congestion, coughing, not feeling the best. I would say flu-like without the fever. Does anyone know of something from your local аптека that has helped them? I know that I will probably run into the same issues during training so getting the right meds now that has helped others will be really helpful.

Edit: thanks for all the responses guys I appreciate it a lot. Saved me a lot of time and headache

Update: for those who stumble on this post in the future in the same predicament, I got teraflu (Терафлю) and Bazooka intens (базука інтенс). In conjunction they worked extremely well and I feel a lot better.

Hi guys, Longtime lurker but your responses have helped me take the jump. I arrives in Ukraine last week and talking with a unit about working in a UAV workshop. I've read that the workstyle is quite intense and repetitive with up to 12 hours a day, 7 days a week. I'm willing to do this, however, for the cause. My question is for those who have done this role, how do you avoid burnout? I want to commit for at least a year but I'm worried about letting down the unit if I don't hold out for that long. Any advice is appeciated for learning to deal with that workload and keeping a healthy brain and body. Thanks

I have thought alot about joining. Many good friends of mine are in Ukraine and its a struggle I deeply empathize with. Obviously, it's a war and I could die, I know that, but it's not like I want to die. I do value my life but it's also a cause I belive in. Is it a death sentence?

I'm assuming training helps and I'm in good shape but I'm also still young and would like to do other things one day.

Edit: Thank you for answering. Dont want to come off as crazy, just thought I should get some insight from people who know more

I just saw a post saying Triton/Wave Raid is recruiting,from what I saw,they operate in the Black Sea.
Does anyone know more about them? Or know anyone from there?