anything, to help ukraine. if you re not fighting on someone else s street, i will do anything. i m a trained infantry soldier. joining this war if you are a serving british soldier is illegal, but for others it s more of a grey area. cj, kieran and elliott say they were pulled aside by the police for a chat as they left the uk but then allowed to travel on. my name isjulia, and what are your names? julia is returning from the border, having helped her daughter to cross. we ve come to join the legion to help fight, if need be, to fight the russians. you are soldiers? you are fighters? yeah, we are ex army.
this is bbc news ? welcome if you re watching here in the uk or around the globe. i m rebecca jones. our top stories: the white house says president biden is not calling for regime change in russia, despite saying in a speech in poland that vladimir putin should not be allowed to stay in power. president zelensky has again urged western countries to supply more planes, tanks, and missile defence systems. we meet the former british soldiers who have travelled to ukraine as they prepare to make the journey to the front line. i ll do anything, i m a trained infantry soldier, i ll help out wherever i can in the field, anywhere from back to front.
up, and then dives down on the tank. it will come in on the target from a high angle of attack and hit the roof of the tank where the armor is very thin. reporter: the u.s. is one of 15 countries ships tens of thousands of antitank weapons to ukraine. you can see the ukrainian soldiers carrying them into combat. not all of them are are as sophisticated and deadly as the javelin, but in the right hands, a rocket-propelled grenade can disable a tank. reporter: you ll get what s called a mobility kill, which means the tank may not be completely destroyed, but it will not be able to move and it can be targeted with other weapons at that point. reporter: what s it like to go up against a tank when you re on foot? it s very, very terrifying for an infantry soldier. it takes a lot of courage and a lot of determination to fight tanks like that. reporter: the ukrainians are supplying the courage. it s up to the u.s. and its allies to supply the weapons. david martin, cbs news, the p
after they ve crossed the border from poland into ukraine. we met at the airport, and it s all been like we ve known each other for a lot longer than 2a hours. having taken a £20 flight to poland, they d slept overnight outside a railway station. cj and elliott had told their families where they were going. kieran, a father of four, had not. i didn t tell the mums, no. i didn t even tell my mum. what brought them together was a desire to do something, anything, to help ukraine. if you re not fighting on someone else s street, i will do anything. i m a trained infantry soldier. joining this war if you are a serving british soldier
of experience with the british army and have all served in afghanistan. we catch up with them just after they ve crossed the border from poland into ukraine. we met at the airport, and it s all been like we ve known each other for a lot longer than 2a hours. having taken a £20 flight to poland, they d slept overnight outside a railway station. cj and elliott had told their families where they were going. kieran, a father of four, had not. i didn t tell the mums, no. i didn t even tell my mum. what brought them together was a desire to do something, anything, to help ukraine. if you re not fighting on someone else s street, does it end up in yours? does it end up, you know, do my kids become a target? do my mates kids? i will do anything. i m a trained infantry soldier.