American in western Ukraine describes 'bombs falling left and right'
An American who traveled to Ukraine to assist in the country's stand against the Russian invasion described the heavy bombardment parts of western Ukraine are now seeing.
Glock Dara, 29, was asleep at the military training ground in Yavoric, on the outskirts of Lviv, when he heard the first missiles begin to strike on Sunday morning.
"I didn’t have time to panic. I just focused on running as fast as I can," Dara told ABC News. "Hella chaos, bombs falling left and right -- you’re just praying to God it doesn’t happen to you."
The strikes left at least 35 dead and 134 wounded, according to Ukrainian officials. Russian officials claim 180 foreign mercenaries are dead.
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Dara is one of roughly two dozen soldiers evacuated from Yavoriv and brought to the Korczowa refugee center in Poland Sunday afternoon, about 15 miles away.
All of the men ABC News spoke with at the refugee center were volunteer foreign fighters from Ireland, France, Boston -- most dressed in uniforms bearing the Ukrainian flag. The base served as a launching pad for foreign fighters who were trained there and then deployed across the country, one medic from Ireland told ABC News.
"A lot" of Americans are at the American base as well, Dara said. He and some of the men he travelled with are now planning to re-group in Krakow, but Dara already intends to back to Lviv, he said.
"I came here as a volunteer counter-terrorist," he added.
The Korczowa refugee center has already seen a significant increase in the number of people coming in from western Ukraine in just the last couple days, volunteers at the shelter told ABC News.
-ABC News' Ines De La Cuerta