Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said 16,000 foreigners have volunteered to fight for Ukraine against the Russian invasion
“We have nothing to lose but our own freedom,” Zelensky said, noting that Ukraine’s international allies are sending the country arms supplies each day.While foreign citizens have been fighting in Ukraine since 2014, when Russia-backed separatists seized parts of the Donbass region, experts who track foreign fighters say this push is a stepAdvertisement
It remains unclear where 16,000 volunteers are coming from, and Zelensky did not expand on the topic in his video. So far, most of the foreign fighters in Ukraine are from other post-Soviet states like Georgia and Belarus. But media reports suggest they’re from countries such as Japan, Britain and the United States., saying it was looking for people with combat experience who have “citizenship other than Ukrainian, but … are standing with Ukraine against [the] Russian invasion.
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