> On the ground in eastern Ukraine, my colleague, Carlotta Gall, interviewed an American who commands a unit of international and Ukrainian volunteers. “The Russians have been retreating,” said the commander, Rob Roy, 26, who uses the code name Borys. “We broke their lines and have been pursuing them since.”
Roy said that many of the Russian conscripts were in poor shape.
“Lots of times they were wearing flip-flops, malnourished,” he said. “It does not scream of a well-mobilized army. My feeling is they don’t want to be here.”