An American citizen fighting alongside Ukrainian forces was killed this week, CNN reported Thursday.⁠

Willy Joseph Cancel, a 22-year-old U.S. Marine veteran and corrections officer from Tennessee, was working with a private military contracting company in Ukraine when he was killed on Monday, his family said.⁠

Cancel is believed to be the first known U.S. citizen to die while fighting alongside Ukrainians in Ukraine. He is survived by his wife and their 7-month-old son.⁠

Cancel’s mother, Rebecca Cabrera, told CNN that he agreed to go to Ukraine in mid-March, several weeks after Russia’s invasion began.⁠

“He wanted to go over because he believed in what Ukraine was fighting for,” Cabrera said. “He wanted to be a part of it to contain it there so it didn’t come here, and that maybe our American soldiers wouldn’t have to be involved in it.”⁠

“He went there wanting to help people,” his wife, Brittany Cancel, told Fox News. “He had always felt that that was his main mission in life.”⁠

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✍️: Yahoo News⁠
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