The former U.S. marine left behind a 7-month-old baby and his wife.
Willy Joseph Cancel, 22, and originally from Orange County, New York, was a former U.S. marine and a corrections officer in Tennessee, according to his mother Rebecca Cabrera.
Cabrera said Cancel"wanted to go over" because he believed in what the Ukrainians were fighting for and"wanted to be a part of it." He arrived in Ukraine through Poland on March 12 or 13, according to CNN, where he was fighting with a group of men all from different nationalities.
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