Conor Kennedy, 28, ‘talked his way’ into fighting as a volunteer in the Ukraine war despite having no combat experience because he ‘feels Putin is a gangster and a bully’ his father RFK Jr reveals
- Conor Kennedy joined the war in Ukraine despite having no military experience
- The grandson of RFK secretly enlisted and ‘talked his way’ into joining the war
- Conor Kennedy joined because he ‘does not like Putin, he does not like bullies’
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has revealed that his son Conor Kennedy ‘talked his way’ into enlisting for the war in Ukraine despite having no military experience.
Conor Kennedy, who is also the grandson of Robert F. Kennedy, secretly enlisted to join the war in Ukraine because he felt Vladimir Putin is a ‘gangster’ and a ‘bully’, his father said.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Conor’s father, appeared on The Megyn Kelly Show on Tuesday to speak about his son joining the fight in Ukraine. He revealed that he and his wife had no idea that Conor was joining the war effort, and that there was only one person on the ground in Ukraine who knew who Conor was.
RFK Jr. said Conor’s reason for wanting to fight in the war was because his son ‘does not like Putin, he does not like bullies’ and he doesn’t support Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Conor explained his reasons for joining the war in a post on his Instagram page.
‘He felt that he shouldn’t be arguing about it … unless he was willing to have skin in the game and take his own risk,’ RFK Jr. said of his son’s choice to go to the war zone.
‘He didn’t have any military experience and kind of talked his way into the unit,’ his father told Kelly.
‘He’s been in firefights, in mainly nighttime, and a lot of artillery fights with the Russians.’
Conor wanted to fight anonymously in the war. His father told Kelly that he only told one American that he was going to Ukraine to fight, and only one person in Ukraine knew his real identity.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. explained to Kelly: ‘He had a job for a law firm, a really good law firm in Los Angeles, and I was looking forward to him living with me for the summer.’
Conor Kennedy, who secretly fought in Ukraine, pictured with his girlfriend Giulia B.
But after asking Conor more about his plans, he said his son told him: ‘I’m not going. I want to talk to you. I don’t want you to ask me what I’m doing.’
‘I was like, ‘Um…,” RFJ Jr. explained. ‘He said, ‘I will explain it to you at some point, but I do not want you to ask me now, and if you could just respect that it would mean a lot to me.’ So I did.’
Understandably, Robert Kennedy and his wife, actress Cheryl Hines began to investigate Conor’s whereabouts after not hearing from him. The parents then stumbled upon his credit card bills.
‘The last one we saw was in Poland and then there was one in Ukraine and then they just stopped,’ he remembered. ‘He didn’t tell anyone where he was going or what he was doing.’
Conor had joined the International Legion which Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had set up in February to ask foreigners to help fight Russia.
Robert Kennedy also revealed to Kelly that his son was now back home in the US.
‘He came back a couple of days ago. I flew out to the East Coast to meet him and I heard about what he done,’ Kennedy said.
‘I’m very glad I didn’t know what he was up to.’
Conor with his girlfriend, Brazilian singer Giulia Be.
The 28-year-old previously wrote on his Instagram page about his decision to join the war effort: ‘Like many people, I was deeply moved by what I saw happening in Ukraine over the past year.
‘I wanted to help. When I heard about Ukraine’s International Legion, I knew I was going, and I went to the embassy to enlist the next day.’
The grandson of RFK added: ‘I told one person here where I was, and I told one person there my real name. I didn’t want my family or friends to worry, and I didn’t want to be treated differently there.’
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