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A 18 -year -old British volunteer was killed and recruited to help defend Ukraine by a Russian drone just minutes away from his first mission, according to a report.
James Wellon, from Huddersfield, traveled to 17 -year -old Ukraine without previous military experience, as he was given a training course for disruption By Ukrainian trainers.
But his first mission on the Eastern Front of Ukraine on July 23, 2024 was also the last, after James and his companion found themselves hunting him by Russian drones in an open field without a cover to run for him.
“I will not overcome this. I didn’t want him to go, but his heart was placed on him. He wanted to help Ukraine,” his father Graham He said Sun.
“I have been told parts of the story of how he died, but I struggled to deal with it and I hope that we can change the places because he had his entire life in front of him.”
An American volunteer, who was called Jason, who risked his life to recover James’s body and lost his foot after he was four days away, said that his friend “has never stopped an opportunity” against Russian drones.
“This was the first and last task of James,” he told The Outlet, describing his team from the Six mission of crossing an open field in groups of two, every 20 meters, to return the provider of other soldiers.
“I and James were the last. I was the last man in the group. I was telling him to stay 20 meters in front of me. I could see that he was afraid and I was also afraid, but I told him that he would be fine.”
But Jason recalled his amazement when he suddenly saw his friend stopped in the middle of the road across the field.
He said: “Then I heard that – a stir in the air above us – and I thought:” Oh and ***. “It took me two or three seconds to discover it, then I saw it and realized that we are in the worst possible situation in which we could be – in an open field that is not running.
He added: “I could say it was” a drone armed “armed with a bomb and its pilot was trying to decide who kills – I or James.” “He wanted us to approach each other so that he could kill both of us with one bomb.”
“We started running with two drones above us – then a third back. Once the drone, James never stood on a chance. It was only 30 meters from the trench line when I saw the drone exploding.
“When I deviated to hold it, one of the other drones appeared over my head, 10 meters away and closed my eyes and thought:“ Oh, now I will die. ”I felt a quiet moment when I resigned from myself and grabbed my friend waiting for this.
“But after five seconds, I was pressed and left there – I still have any idea of the reason.”
This is the first time that James’s death has been reported, as Jason spoke to the post from the Superhumans Center in LVIV, a charitable facility supported by the wounded wounded in the Russian war.
His father said that it took some time to treat the death of his son, adding: “But I think it is time to pay a kind of general tribute and it is good to talk finally what happened.”
He describes his son-who completed a two-year course in caring for animals and caring for the Earth before he decides to travel to Ukraine-such as “such a comfortable, polite, easy and beloved young man,” Graham said: “I will always be proud of him.
“I brought his ashes home, but I may return to spread them there [in Ukraine]. I think this may be what he wants. “
In a rare update on the human cost of Vladimir Putin’s war, Ukrainian President Voludimir Zelinski said in December that Kiev had lost 43,000 soldiers killed in the battlefield since Russia’s full invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
“There were 370,000 medical aid cases. Mr. Zelinski said:
In addition, he said that about 198,000 Russian soldiers were killed and another 550,000 wounded were wounded.
At least 16 British volunteers have been reported so far after traveling to help defend Ukraine.
The current Foreign Ministry guidance warns that “if you travel to Ukraine to fight, or to help others involved in the war, your activities may rise to crimes under UK legislation” and “you can try upon your return to the United Kingdom.”
Since last May, British citizens who join the international armed forces or the Ukrainian armed forces have to serve at least six months and are not allowed to leave Ukraine during this period.
A warning of great risks to the lives of British citizens who travel to fight or do humanitarian work in Ukraine, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs warns that “the United Kingdom government’s ability to support you in these circumstances is very limited,” adding: “You cannot facilitate your journey from Ukraine, or return you Medical, or ending your military contract.
on monday, Independent He revealed that Jacques Labraste, the former Vice President of the Conservative Party, who lost his seat in the general elections last year, has now joined the Ukrainian International Corps.
The 55 -year -old is not in the infantry unit in the confrontation line but is doing support. Its military duties and focus of foreign and diplomatic relations, the purchase of weapons, some work with old warriors and charities working in Ukraine.