Addtheed the desire to fight. it is a youunified force. reporter: james vasquez told cnn he was moving around loosely. right now, me and a british soldier have been going from unit to unit where we re needed the most. reporter: but u.s. officials are again warning americans don t go to ukraine to fight. this is an active war zone, this is not the place to be traveling to. reporter: state department officials say russian forces could single out americans fighting in ukraine, one official warning that captured americans could be subject to heightened risk of mistreatment. it is not hard to imagine a situation in way american soldier is tortured, executed on the battlefield or tent back to moscow to be some type of pawn
Now more than two months of fighting has obviously taken a heavy toll on ukraine s infrastructure. hospitals, depots, water systems have all been targets of russian bombs and missiles. you can see some of that in the video there from kharkiv. one ukrainian soldier says he s still stunned bit sheer amount of instruction. translator: i couldn t even imagine that something like this could happen. everything is destroyed. not one house will remain in tact after this. no windows, craters everywhere. i understood the situation here, but not at this level. but president zelenskyy says the infrastructure is not just a collateral damage, he says the russian attacks are all part of a plan. translator: in donbas, the occupiers are doing everything to destroy any life in this area. constant brutal bombings,
Full-time job as a corrections officer in tennessee when he signed town work for a private military contracting company shortly before the ukraine war broke out. when the conflict began, cancel agreed to go. he flew to ploind on march 12th. he was being paid while he was fighting there. that s a horse of a different color than being directly in some kind of ukrainian foreign legion, and that begs the question, who s the client for the contracting company, is it for the government of ukraine? reporter: no immediate answers to those questions, and u.s. officials don t have an exact count of how many americans are fighting in ukraine. an official told cnn in early martha at march, that at that time, more than 20,000 people had express a
And u.s. officials say that they don t have an exact count of how many americans are fighting in ukraine. ukrainian defense official told cnn in early march that at that time more than 20,000 people from more than 50 countries had expressed a desire to join the fight. cnn has interviewed some americans who volunteered. former tv analyst malcolm nance described fighting in a special ukrainian unit called the international legion. it is not just people running around grabbing rifles and going on the battlefield. it is a unified force that is a component of the ukrainian army key empl deployed on the battle front. reporter: but james vasquez says he was moving around loosely. i m pretty much a ghost. me and a british soldier, him and i have been going unit to unit, you know, wherever needed the most. reporter: but u.s. officials are again warning americans don t go to ukraine to fight. this is an active warzone, this is not the place to be
Former-tv analyst, malcolm nance, described fighting in a special ukrainian unit called the international legion. it is not just people running around, grabbing rifles, and going on the battlefield. it is a unified force, that is a component of the ukrainian army that is fdeployed on the battle front. but another maeshor american fighting there, james vasquez, told cnn he was moving around loosely. right now, i am pretty much a ghost. me me and a british soldier him and i have been kind of going from unit to unit, you know, wherever we are needed the most. reporter: but u.s. officials are, again, warning americans don t go to ukraine to fight. this is an active war zone. this is not the place to be traveling to. reporter: state department officials say russian forces could single out americans fighting in ukraine. one official warning that captured americans could be subject to, quote, heightened risk of mistreatment. it is hard to imagine a situation, in which a capt