Eyewitness Account of Volunteer Fighter at Ukraine Military Base Where Russian Airstrike Killed 35

'It was terribly chaotic. There was no command structure. Some people were running around, others were screaming.'

A Polish soldier who had joined as a foreign fighter in Ukraine prepares to return home after his base, Yavoriv International Peacekeeping and Security Centre, was bombed overnight in western Ukraine, on March 13, 2022. Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times

KOTY, Ukraine—The Russian missiles that slammed into a Ukrainian military facility four miles from the village of Koty, Ukraine, on March 13 lit the morning sky red and sent smoke billowing to the clouds.

As the village church bells rang in alarm, the windows of the farmhouses trembled, barn doors swung open, and terrified locals ran to their basements.