new york iryna solomko voice of america our next story is about an american of ukrainian origin bohdan olinaresoluntarily fought for six months as part of the azov battalion in the battles in donetsk region, a former marine was hit by a shell fragment , but miraculously he was not injured why did the man leave to fight in ukraine how service in the bolt differed from service in the usa and how he almost died from a russian tank bohdan olinares told voice of america when i arrived at the ukrainian border at the customs office i they asked what are you doing here? i said i came to fight and the woman is a border guard, why is the american bohdan olinarets fighting on the side of ukraine as a volunteer not at the very beginning of the full-scale invasion of russia , it was the beginning of the second week of the invasion. i arrived on the sixth or seventh day after the start of the war and stayed for six months bohdan was born in ukraine, but at the age of two he lives in the united states, he is a veteran of the us marine corps, i have no family , wife or children, i am of military age and i have