The Legion released the names of a Dutchman, an Australian, a German and a Frenchman, without specifying the dates or the circumstances of their deaths.
Ukrainian authorities and the International Defense Legion of Ukraine, the official body of foreign fighters taking part in the war, announced the deaths of four foreign volunteers on Saturday.
The Legion released the names of a Dutchman, an Australian, a German and a Frenchman, without specifying the dates or the circumstances of their deaths.
“We lost our brothers in battle but their bravery, their memory and their legacy will inspire us forever,” the Legion said on its Facebook account, uploading photos of the four men in camouflage uniforms and light weapons.
The French Foreign Ministry confirmed on Friday that a French “fighter who had volunteered” in Ukraine had been killed “in battle”.
The German Foreign Ministry said the country’s embassy in Kyiv was trying to clear up the situation and was “in contact with the Ukrainian authorities”.
French Agency journalists attended the funeral of the Dutchman Ronald Fochelar on May 21st. According to his colleagues who spoke during the ceremony, he was killed a few days earlier in an artillery bombardment.
The Australian was killed in May and his death was confirmed by a Foreign Ministry spokesman in Canberra.
Tasmania’s Mercury newspaper named him Michael Charles O’Neill, 47. According to his obituary on the social networking site Facebook, he was a carrier.
The Legion says on the website it has created that its ranks include citizens of countries such as Denmark, Israel, Poland, Latvia, Croatia, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Canada.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced the formation of this force when the war broke out. Ukrainian authorities say they have received about 20,000 applications.
The armed conflict, which has lasted more than a hundred days, also attracted large numbers of volunteers from Georgia, a former Soviet republic that experienced a lightning war with Russia in 2008, following Moscow’s recognition of two of its controlled areas. by pro-Russian separatists in Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said this week that “hundreds” of foreign fighters – “mercenaries” from its own point of view – had been killed since the invasion began on February 24 and that the flow of foreign fighters to Ukraine had doubled.
