this is how 30-year-old american wolfgang hegarty explains his motivation to fight for ukraine. the californian joined the armed forces of ukraine in the summer of 2022. wolfgang is a third- generation military man. since 2012, he served for 5 years at us infantry and participated in operations in the middle east. i served in the infantry, but i was engaged in security, so i did not take part in anything dangerous, nothing like ukraine. in the middle east, no one sits for hours under constant artillery fire. in the fall of 2022, wolfgang took part in the liberation of kharkiv region together with the special unit of the main intelligence department, also helped in the liberation. mykolaiv oblast, is currently fighting in one of the air reconnaissance units of the armed forces of ukraine in donbas. i am, as they say, a nerd, everything happened by itself with drones. i fought alongside the kraken special forces, near balaklia, and saw how they worked with them, and i thought to myself, this is the way of the future. one of wolfgang's brothers and close friends, jericho magalon fo