Washington-Sana
An American who had previously joined the ranks of foreign mercenaries who flocked to Ukraine to support its regime in the face of Russian forces and the forces of the Donetsk and Lugansk republics, was killed.
The mother of the victim, Rebecca Cabrera, told CNN that Willie Joseph Kansel, whose death was announced last Monday, arrived in Ukraine in mid-March.
A former US Marine, he joined a private paramilitary company and went to Ukraine to fight as a mercenary.
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said the news of Kansel's killing was "sad" and urged Americans not to go to Ukraine.
Yesterday, a British Foreign Office spokesman announced the killing of a British mercenary in Ukraine and the loss of another.
The head of the Ukrainian regime, Vladimir Zelensky, announced the formation of an international corps of foreign mercenaries, while his foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, revealed in early March that the number of mercenaries in this corps was about 20,000.
The Russian Ministry of Defense had revealed earlier that the Kyiv government had recruited thousands of mercenaries from 63 countries, pointing out that the Russian forces, during their military operation to protect the residents of Donbass, were able to liquidate more than a thousand of them.
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