Russia's invasion has given Ukraine's embassy in Washington the task of fielding inquiries from thousands of Americans who want to help.
Willy Joseph Cancel was killed fighting alongside Ukrainian forces in Ukraine, his family confirmed.
Russia's invasion has given Ukraine's embassy in Washington the task of fielding inquiries from thousands of Americans who want to help in the fight, and Ukraine is using the internet to recruit volunteers for a foreign force, the International Legion of Defense of Ukraine. Osmon, 30, said her mother wants her home before September. But for now she's anxious to get out of the hotel where she is staying in Lviv and catch on with another fighting force nearer the action.U.S. Marine veteran Eddy Etue said he quit his job in the gig economy, found a friend in Colorado to watch his cat and gave up his home four blocks from the beach in San Diego, California, to help out in Ukraine, where he's been about two weeks.
"What's happening here will affect not only the people who are experiencing it but their children and grandchildren as well," he said."I know that from personal experience." But there's plenty of other work to do. Groups of volunteers are getting medical and food supplies to people in the nation of 44 million people, he said, and others are working with refugees and others who've had to flee their homes.
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