"Wolverines!": The secret foreign volunteer group training Ukrainians to fight Russia

For months, photos from Ukraine on social media have sparked international intrigue, showing destroyed Russian military vehicles spray-painted with the word "Wolverines."
It's the calling card of a secretive group of foreign volunteers, who are training Ukraine's civilians to fight Russian forces.
With exclusive access to the group, Jeff Semple reports from Ukraine on their operations, the Canadian veterans among them, and the classic Cold War-era movie behind their namesake.
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[@jggrimm]

Who was it that said "...don't send me a plane. send us ammo..." With that, a special thank you to the volunteer combat veterans who have come to Ukraine to train brave citizens defending their homeland.

[@cskye6529]

The President of Ukraine, Zelenskyy?

[@volfaninmi4370]

CSkye is correct.

[@matthewskudzienski888]

Some form fighters were from different Countries🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇫🇷🇵🇱🇬🇪🇪🇸🇮🇹🇹🇩

[@phant0m233]

"I need ammo, not a ride." -Volodomyr Zelensky, Kiev, UA, February 2022

[@pandos_bandos]

God Bless Wolverines! God Bless all Freedom Soldiers for Ukraine🇺🇸🇨🇦🇬🇧🇵🇱 Glory to Ukraine 🇺🇦 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

[@aeonsbeyond]

I saw this coming months ago and I was right??? Wow 'm so glad to see it's real WOLVERINES!!!

[@tomek5513.]

Putin, did not know he could motivate the rage of the world against himself. Slava Wolverines

[@guillermolimon9832]

glory to the wolverine...Slava 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 brothers

[@jggrimm]

Roger that.

[@bebeperoy7312]

THANK YOU FOR THE KINDNESS OF YOUR HEARTS❤ MAY THE WARRIORS ANGELS BE ON YOUR SIDE FOR PROTECTION..🙏🇺🇦🇺🇸❤

[@randallreed9048]

Since Ivan the Terrible, Russia has never known democracy, liberty, ethical governance, and the basic freedoms we hold so dear. From Czarist times, Communism and Lenin, the butcher Stalin, through the fall of the Soviet Union and the rise of Putin’s kleptocracy, the Russian people have never known moral or ethical leadership, whether from the politicians or the compromised Russian Orthodox Church. The consequence of this is that the Russians have never had a living, positive example of ethical training or development. From the lowest to the highest strata of Russian society, they are bereft of any effective moral compass. What does the future hold? It looks like a very grim future for Russia. How will they change? How will they mature? How will they every enjoy freedom?

[@GLA741]

"Even the smallest flea, can drive a Big dog crazy" ~ Red Dawn (2012)

[@dj4riseswithsunk4nekane80]

Thank you wolverines for training them much appreciate it ........ ty for the ukraine ppl who accept their help and learn from them ..slava ukraine

[@isaiahdial9262]

Lol watch the movie red dawn it’s where they got the name from

[@dj4riseswithsunk4nekane80]

@@isaiahdial9262 your point being ? most special ops teams or highly trained groups get it from something that means something ..i think the name is befitting especially what the movie represented. now stop trolling already

[@isaiahdial9262]

@@dj4riseswithsunk4nekane80 bro I’m just suggesting u watch the movie if u haven’t already 😂 why are you so mad

[@dj4riseswithsunk4nekane80]

@@isaiahdial9262 not mad and ik where they got the name from and ik the movie

[@isaiahdial9262]

@@dj4riseswithsunk4nekane80 u obviously are if u think I’m trolling 😂

[@toddj8125]

i saw "wolverines" spray painted on a destroyed russian vehicle, a couple months ago in one of the bazillion videos i've watched and i instantly recalled that old movie and assumed the current was somewhere tied to the past reference in the movie.

[@train_go_boom2065]

Red Dawn

[@envillakirima3885]

good luck guyz,,,may God give you strength and power to overcome that evil opponent.

[@MrMarimero1234]

Thanks a million to the mighty Ukrainian braveheart Wolverines and their foreign trainers. Ukraine needs you. This battle between good and evil must be won. Victory to Ukraine. SLAVA UKRAINI...HEROYAM SLAVA !!!!

[@AbnSicario]

As a combat veteran myself , I totally undestand the meaning of defending what is right !!

[@truth6612]

As soon as the video started, I imediately thought of the movie Red Dawn. I seen that movie numerous times in High School. Then when they mentioned Red Dawn, I smiled. Then when they mentioned that the troops are required to watch Red Dawn for inspiration I thought that was so awesome

[@kylybeach6298]

Canadian soldiers are as tough as it gets in the military.

[@VT-tz5bm]

LMAO

[@ilovecops5499]

LOL! SOYEBOYE JUSTINE TRUDOW IS THEI RBOSS...LOL!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@VajrahahaShunyata]

Patrick Swaze tough?

[@kylybeach6298]

@@VajrahahaShunyata Yes

[@carmenlajoie2719]

U might want to follow anti-war journalist's like George Galloway on MOATS with Scott Ritter-Richard Medhurst. Grayzone with Aaron & Max. Telasur AKirk & Eva Bartlett

[@feliciastoia7126]

GOD BLESS SOLDIERS ! GOD BLESS UKRAINE 🇺🇦 GOD BLESS MR.PRESIDENT ZELENSKI ! AMEN !

[@scottcomaduran6549]

Nice I love it! Training is a very smart way to build a force - multiplied.

[@Mr.Skeleton.]

Glory to AZOV and the Wolverines!

[@kchishol1970]

Wolverines, a small Canadian animal that bears fear by being compact, tough, fearless and ferociously mean!

[@20alphabet]

Secret, huh? You kinda messed that up, didn't you?

[@scottcomaduran6549]

Good for you!

[@cristigeanta123]

Slavă Domnului pentru Ucraina slavă Domnului pentru cei ce vă ajută slavă Domnului multă stimă și respect din România

[@edbartlerr1745]

Congratulations for these great trainers in helping the great nation of Ukraine in destroying these bullies.Long live Ukraine from down under

[@user-hd9nc7zp1v]

Red Dawn 1984 film has a group called Wolverines. Weird huh?

[@nicksanta]

There was an 1980's action movie, Red Dawn. In the movie Russia attacked and occupied the U.S.. In the movie American patriots that started a counter insurgency that eventually stopped the Russians were called 'Wolverines".

[@notolerance9796]

Yea that's why they made it, its based off that.

[@kim-jong-poon]

Awesome movie with an all star cast. One of my favorite movies to this day.

[@probegt75]

Yea...thats what they said in the video..why you parroting what we just watched?

[@nathanjohnson7419]

@@probegt75 probably didn't watch the whole video

[@elemtielemtilamliu8097]

Thankyou Wolverines

[@museme6945]

That's the spirit! Knock them out of the park! The world has united against the aggressors, damn straight!

[@MrMattnis1]

The world actually isn't.

[@seantbr2019]

The chair is against the wall the chair is against the wall John has a long mustache John has a long mustache

[@jtothed8575]

Hmmm.. Gonna guess an iskander will be landing here pretty soon.. Just like the one that took out the barracks and facilities at Desna..

[@Spitfire_Cowboy]

LoL! Not this time. We learned to turn off all mobile devices and their GPS. We also have secured other systems that were previously breached. Bring it.

[@jtothed8575]

@@Spitfire_Cowboy the Desna facility was 2 days ago.. I guess those guys didn’t get the memo.. Might need to let them know..

[@elvinmashele6732]

Wolverines from the movie red dawn 1984

[@jtothed8575]

1:50 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician) patch on the chest.. Good job Global..

[@primmakinsofis614]

Somewhere, Klaus Schwab is smiling.

[@UkrainianPunk180]

☭🔫

[@schetchikstop]

Показуха . Фу

[@caseybutt5553]

Whatever gets the job done.

[@sergeikhripun]

@@caseybutt5553 Whatever gets the job done? Yeah, like burning civilians alive.

[@matthewskudzienski888]

Just like in the movie “Red Dawn”(2:10)

[@albertalberto9988]

Hugs from Italy!

[@albertalberto9988]

@New Car Smell Don't ask me. I do not manufacture weapons.

[@mrwalle4u]

Really awesome story 🤙🏼

[@petersmith6974]

Show us a update on these guys.

[@MrStoolfire]

Yes!

[@ramonantoniodejuanbennett6239]

Life imitating art! Who would've thought? WOLVERINES!!!!!!! SLAVA UKRAINE!!!!!!!

[@drakesucks]

Does anyone have a link to the music video?

[@jeffese]

Powerful

[@kchishol1970]

Red Dawn may be inspiring, as long as the new recruits remember that the Wolverines are eventually ground down and largely wiped out by the end of the story.

[@thuglifeoutdoor1293]

Great job keep it up kill all those Evil the Good will Win God is with you all

[@michaelmaldonado6]

...No. Myself and about 7 others went there and abandoned them after 3 weeks in 2022. They had us do nothing in the time we were there waiting. We left an trained people and then saw combat. I'm still here almost 2 years later.

[@foxgaming1084]

Reminds me of the movie red dawn where a group of resistance where called wolverines

[@tedyard7577]

Love it

[@stephenpeel6469]

Wolverine from the 1984 red dawn who fought the Russian (Soviet Union) and the wolverines in the 2012 red dawn who fought North Korea and Russian special forces and now the wolverines are back to aid ⛑️ there Allie's of Ukraine with military tactics and surprising ambush and Gabriella warfare tactics

[@movienerd202]

Wolverines!!

[@urszulavon9400]

Today is 23 February 2023. I would like to know how many Wolverines are alive today?

[@veronicalogotheti5416]

Good They know things that can save their lifes

[@chadbrad8100]

I like your grammar lives*

[@rhodesiansneverdie7515]

Would anyone know how a forigner without combat experience could join this group?

[@NeroLeMorte]

Inb4 marvel starts to cennsor the wolverine like they did the punisher logo due to the military association with the punisher logo.

[@matthewwolfe9417]

When you’re an American veteran but recognize one of the voices…😅

[@ihsefoundationptyltdnonepr1080]

excellent 👌 not to much transparency for Russia

[@raymondyee2008]

Wished Jed and his gang were there to train them.

[@vsohmen]

Ukrainian civilians and foreign volunteer fighters could become 'cannon fodder' without intensive weapons training, and skills in demining, night warfare, and first aid.

[@markhesbrook5794]

Straight out of the movie red dawn

[@Spitfire_Cowboy]

*mr burns voice* exxxxcellent! Wolv-er-ines!

[@nathandennis709]

So funny. Best comedy Global has ever made.

[@dredging4oysters]

What.....

[@CAxPH]

Goddamn trolls like you are the real jokes

[@VT-tz5bm]

I honestly laughed so hard 😂

[@fabricio4794]

Russettes are Nervous?very good..

[@brose2323]

Hey, when I did Afghanistan I had some Tina Karol music videos on my laptop also.

[@train_go_boom2065]

I love the Red Dawn movie

[@primmakinsofis614]

When can we expect an in-depth look at the Azov Battalion?

[@nathandennis709]

It’s already been done by various western media outlets.

[@UkrainianPunk180]

As soon as Dmitry Utkin documentary comes out.

[@schetchikstop]

Нет больше Азова 😁😂😅🤣. Обкакались они )

[@caseybutt5553]

I'd love to see another. They're the bravest fighters on Earth.

[@UkrainianPunk180]

@Ouchwitz Summer Camp LLC him and Putin are pretty close. Wouldn't surprise me...

[@milutinsmiljkovic6199]

Those supersoldiers were allready beaten in Lisichansk😁.

[@patrickmurdock803]

i want to go

[@Cr0nkR]

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth a war, is much worse. When a people are used as mere human instruments for firing cannon or thrusting bayonets, in the service and for the selfish purposes of a master, such war degrades a people. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their free choice, - is often the means of their regeneration. A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever-renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.

[@syfyhq9878]

The rise of wolverines

[@syfyhq9878]

I have only seen the 2010s red dawn is the 1984 red dawn good

[@mr6johnclark]

better.

[@damiion666]

Required to watch the movie 😂😂 Hey whatever motivates them lol

[@jonm2416]

I love it!!!!!

[@thomashenshallhydraxis]

How odd… this article was interesting in many ways

[@mohamedabdullahi6125]

Crazy….

[@Spitfire_Cowboy]

Wolverines baby! Fun fact, Wolverine was from Canada.

[@jillylove101]

Insane 😔

[@JackieBillyTom]

all their trucks have urine in the radiator

[@renatobrito3455]

Marvel WOLVERINE ❤❤❤ 🇺🇲🇺🇦♥️♥️

[@wvr653]

Well, they are not secret anymore, thanks global news XD

[@aungkyi6635]

good luck volunteer god blass ukrainian people

[@davidshears1449]

Another name for mercenaries

[@nativeamerican7424]

Wolverines ❤️

[@BlindFury00]

The "Wolf Pack" sounds better in my opinion. Then have units of wolf packs lol. I unno.

[@GenX1964]

Also don't even try to tell me how special they all are. No military man would intentionally put himself in an untenable situation like that. These are Larpers.

[@maxsoon1097]

Wolverine the animal, fear no ones

[@labrat2306]

"Former" special forces.

[@santinobos345]

funny story, you know that movie Red Dawn? the resistance group called wolverines.

[@lindawhittle4943]

Thank-you for the support of a great country ..so many Hero's

[@alexandriashown5745]

Everyone who supports Ukraine, please watch this video, here is the whole truth that is being hidden from you (video titled "What you don't know about the war in Ukraine")

[@swingnamiss8130]

Incredible, a fictional masterpiece became reality. It really was Red Dawn in Ukraine

[@stankudry6381]

Rumors have it that the Wolverines tactically retreated from Solidar Bahmut all the way back to America and secured their positions around a flat screen TV with coffee

[@Cotac_Rastic]

More western rocket practice, Russia should be paying them for all that generosity.

[@anwarsadat2334]

Good luck and happy hunting.

[@mkvideos8499]

Of course no one notice SS ,,galizien,,division emblems...

[@saxytb]

Hey Global News, any news on the Canadian General Trevor Cadieu captured by the Russians in Mariupol?

[@Karma-fp7ho]

This is an odd report. Very rah rah war.

[@Spitfire_Cowboy]

Wolv-er-ines!

[@noormadibmdnoormdnoor6477]

first,we watch the movie,second this is not movie coz this is war and we dont want to die yet.

[@markovovchok6767]

Wolverine's!!!

[@I_Like_Turtle390]

Leading them to a bloodbath.....

[@SaraK_69]

Wolverines!

[@factorybear5264]

Wagner is a thousand times cooler than the poser wolverines. Even Swayze would have agreed! Slava Charlie Sheen!!

[@littlejuiceworldjr8118]

If you every watched the movie red dawn and they fight Russia well it looks like it today

[@rinalokumana9754]

Wolverines 💥💥 knock em out

[@vaninec]

Those got from Africa? Any progress in Ukraine? Krymea is "free" just like Yemen or Lybia?

[@jimmychoo8907]

Ok

[@sliderstruth]

Red dawn

[@factsdontcareaboutyourfeel7204]

They’re gonna show them patriot next lmao

[@Flexb123]

hahaha theyre so secret they're doing interviews for MSM.

[@oskat8981]

Flexb123 do you mean what means by coming forward? they used to keep it be a secret

[@VT-tz5bm]

Yeah I cringed..

[@georgekostaras]

so the wolverines are basically a bunch of mercenaries fighting in a foreign conflict