An MSNBC commentator has reportedly left the network to join an international legion fighting on the side of Ukraine
as it seeks to repel a Russian invasion.
Malcolm Nance, the former naval intelligence officer who has served as an on-air analyst at the Comcast-owned cable network since 2007, appeared on
Monday’s episode of Joy Reid’s nightly show “The ReidOut” wearing military fatigues and combat gear.
Nance also appeared while carrying what appeared to be a Kalashnikov assault rifle.
He told Reid on Monday that he has joined the International Legion of Territorial Defense in Ukraine.
According to Reid, the legion is comprised of 20,000 volunteers from 52 countries who enlisted to
help Ukrainian forces fight the Russian military.
“I spent quite a bit of time here in the pre-war period and when the invasion happened, I had friends who were in Donetsk, who were in the Ukrainian army, who were writing to us and telling us, ‘We’re not going to survive tonight. We’ve been hit 500 times,'” Nance told Reid on Monday.
