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Most foreign fighters joined the conflict during one of two waves. The first wave happened from 2014 to 2019 during the War in the Donbas and consisted of approximately 17,241 foreign fighters. [a] The second wave is considered by researchers to have been much larger and began in 2022 after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
While Rękawek said that some foreign fighters that traveled to Ukraine in 2014 held extremist political beliefs and supported the Azov Battalion or the Russian separatist forces in Donbas, the foreign fighters travelling to Ukraine in early 2022 "don't appear to be motivated, as a group, by a certain set of ideological tropes". [21]
Fighters of the battalion in Ukraine, October 2022. On 27 February 2022, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made an announcement declaring the establishment of an international fighting force to assist in defending the sovereignty and independence of Ukraine amidst the Russian invasion.
The American fighter who was in Severodonetsk said he and his unit were trapped in a trench for 14 hours on the front in Ukraine’s east due to constant Russian shelling, but the next day they ...
Foreign fighters from Georgia, France, Australia, Brazil, and other countries were pictured fighting on the front line in the eastern Ukrainian city of Sievierodonetsk in footage uploaded on June ...
Russian courts have sentenced more than 200 Ukrainian fighters to prison terms since Moscow started its military operation in Ukraine, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview with the ...
Over time many other fighters of different nationalities have joined the 2nd Battalion, which include: British, Indians, Canadians, Polish, Colombians, Americans, and many more. [ 5 ] [ 10 ] It was reported that the formation of the 2nd Battalion of the International Legion indicated that a fairly large number of foreign soldiers have joined ...
Legionnaires during training, November 2023. On 27 February 2022, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made an announcement declaring the establishment of an international fighting force to assist in defending the sovereignty and independence of Ukraine amidst the Russian invasion.