A pro-Russian separatist teaches boys how to use a Kalashnikov machine gun, in the eastern Ukrainian city of Khartsyzk, Donetsk region -© AFP / by Yulia Silina
KHARTSYZK, UKRAINE: He is only 14 but already knows how to assemble a Kalashnikov rifle. Denis is a child soldier in the making — eager to join the pro-Russian militants fighting Ukrainian troops.
“If I were an adult, I would fight,” the skinny boy with a dishevelled crew-cut said in a war-scarred town deep in the heart of the rebel-run east of the ex-Soviet state.
“I want to see war, to learn how to shoot, to …read more
Source: The Borneo Post
