Former Marine Is The First U S Citizen Known To Have Died Fighting In The Russia Ukraine War Us Army

Willy Joseph Cancel, 22, was killed Monday while working for a military company that sent him to Ukraine, his mother, Rebecca Cabrera, told CNN. Cabrera said her son was working as a penitentiary in Tennessee and had registered to work with a private military contractor shortly before the fighting in Ukraine began in late February. He told CNN he had agreed to go to Ukraine. “He wanted to go because he believed in what Ukraine was fighting for and he wanted to be a part of it to limit it there so that he would not come here, and that maybe our American soldiers should not be involved in that,” he said. Cabrera said her son’s body was not found. “They did not find his body,” he said. “The men who were with him are trying to grab his body or kill him, but we would like him to come back to us.” She said her son flew to Poland on March 12 and shortly afterwards entered Ukraine, where he fought alongside men from various countries. The United States has not confirmed the reports. On Friday, the State Department said it was aware of the reports and was “closely monitoring the situation.” For privacy reasons, we have no further comments. We reiterate that US citizens should not travel to Ukraine due to the active armed conflict and the expulsion of US citizens to Ukraine by Russian security officials, and that US citizens in Ukraine should leave immediately if it is safe. to do so using any commercial or other privately available ground transportation options. “ Cancel’s widow, Brittany Cancel, told Fox News that she was leaving a young son behind and that she saw her husband as a hero. “My husband died in Ukraine,” said Brittany Cancel. “He went there wanting to help people, he always felt that this was his main mission in life.” She said her husband volunteered to go to Ukraine, but also had ambitions to become a police officer or firefighter. “He had dreams and ambitions to become a police officer or join the FDNY,” he told Fox. “Of course when he learned about what was happening in Ukraine he was willing to volunteer.” Tens of thousands of Ukrainians are believed to have died in the war. Other non-combatants from the U.S. were killed, including a documentary that was killed when his vehicle came under fire at a checkpoint and a man was killed while waiting in line for bread.