Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba MOSCOW, Feb 27 Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba said that foreigners who want to defend Ukraine as part of a new unit, the «International Legion of Territorial Defense», can apply to Ukrainian diplomatic missions in their countries of residence for this purpose. According to the Ukrainian agency UNIAN, Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday announced the formation of the Defense of Ukraine», which will be completed from foreigners who want to defend the country.
Foreigners willing to defend Ukraine and world order as part of the International Legion of Territorial Defense of Ukraine, I invite you to contact foreign diplomatic missions of Ukraine in your respective countries. Together we defeated Hitler, and we will defeat Putin, too.
— Dmytro Kuleba (@DmytroKuleba) February 27, 2022 «Foreigners who want to defend Ukraine and the world order as part of the International Legion of Territorial Defense of Ukraine, I urge you to contact the foreign diplomatic missions of Ukraine in your countries,» Kuleba wrote on Twitter.Russia launched a military operation to demilitarize Ukraine on 24 February. In a televised address to the Russians, President Vladimir Putin said that circumstances «require decisive and immediate action from us, the people's republics of Donbass have asked for help.» The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation emphasized that the Russian Armed Forces do not strike at the cities of Ukraine: military infrastructure is disabled with high-precision means.