Armed with armor and armed with assault rifles, longtime MSNBC intelligence analyst Malcolm Nance revealed on Monday that he has joined Ukrainian forces fighting on the ground against Russian aggression.
“I spent a lot of time here before the war,” said Nancy, a U.S. Navy veteran. Told MSNBC Joy Reid via video link From Ukraine. “And when the invasion took place, I had friends in Donetsk who were in the Ukrainian army who wrote to us and said, ‘We can’t survive tonight. We were hit 500 times”.
“The more I watched the war, the more I thought, ‘I’m done talking, okay?’ It’s time to download it and move on ”.
He said he joined the Ukrainian International Defense Legion, a unit of the Ukrainian army opened by President Volodymyr Zelensky to allow foreigners to join the fight against Russia.
MSNBC Rep. Said. in the Daily Beast Nancy is no longer a network analyst now that she has joined the International Legion.
“I am here to help this country fight, which is essentially a war of destruction,” he said. “It was an existential war and Russia brought it to these people and they killed a lot of civilians. And there are people like me who are here to do something. “
He said the sole purpose of international troops was “to protect the innocent people of Ukraine from Russian aggression” against civilians.
“They kill men, women and children and this is the motive of everyone [in the legion] it’s here.”
He spoke directly to President Joe Biden using “long-range anti-battery artillery” to protect civilians from missile attacks.
“Russia has an advantage on the battlefield and it’s long-range artillery,” he said.
After serving in the Navy, Nancy, 61, began appearing on MSNBC and other national news networks as an intelligence and terrorism expert and foreign policy analyst. He wrote several books on the subject.
Source: Huffpost