“This bonded brotherhood of the Legion had been divided by the war amongst those who either deserted to go and fight or had already completed their service and went back to fight in Ukraine.”
Combatants whod previously served in the French Foreign Legion have been forced to fight on opposing sides on the Russia-Ukraine war, explains the Times’s senior foreign correspondent Anthony Loyd.
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