Sixth Finnish fighter killed in Ukraine
25-Nov-2024 03:35 PM 7846
Kyiv, Nov 25 (Reporter) A sixth Finnish fighter, with a call sign "Sipa," has been killed in Ukraine, an organisation of Finnish militants engaged in the combat in Ukraine, Your Finnish Friends, said on Monday. "Once again, the life of a Finnish volunteer in eastern Ukraine has been claimed. 'Sipa' gave up all his possessions to enter Ukraine to defend peace, despite strong opposition from his mother. 'Sipa' had a goal, and he never gave up his goal," the organisation said on X. Jussi Tanner, the director of consular services in the Finnish Foreign Ministry, said in February that around 30 Finnish volunteers were fighting for Ukraine. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said that a number of Western countries had sent their military personnel to Ukraine under the guise of mercenaries. Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has warned the West that the presence of foreign fighters in Ukraine made it a co-belligerent. The Russian Defence Ministry has been warning foreign mercenaries against traveling to fight in Ukraine. Those who do not have the status of combatants under international law are not eligible for protection as prisoners of war, it said...////...
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