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According to a Ukrainian government spokesman, foreign volunteers who join Ukrainian forces in the fight against Russia will receive citizenship from the Ukrainian government if they choose.
Supporters who go to Ukraine and sign up for volunteer units will receive a military ID from the State Border Service, and in the future the volunteers will be included in the group of foreign citizens who are eligible for citizenship, – First Deputy Interior Minister Yevhen Ukrinform.
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⚡️Foreign volunteers, if they wish, will be able to obtain Ukrainian citizenship, First Deputy Interior Minister Yevgeny Enin said on March 9.
Twenty thousand foreign volunteers have joined Ukrainian forces to fight Russia since March 6.
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) March 9, 2022
Last month, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that he was forming an “international brigade” of volunteers who would join him in the fight against Russia.
The announcement came in tandem with loud frustration at the international community and its apparent lack of help.
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The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba specified that the military formations will “defend Ukraine and the world order as part of the International Legion of Territorial Defense of Ukraine.”
Since the Feb. 27 announcement, more than 20,000 volunteers from 52 countries have signed up to fight in Ukraine, Kuleba said on Sunday, Time reported.
Soldiers stand next to the coffin containing the body of Colonel Volodymyr Zhoga, commander of a reconnaissance battalion in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, during a farewell ceremony in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, Monday, March 7, 2022. (AP Photo)
The militants were joined by European countries, including Poland, Denmark and Latvia, whose governments made it easier for their citizens to join the fighting.
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Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen called on citizens to join the fighting during a press conference on 27 February. Frederiksen called it “a choice anyone can make,” according to Time.
Ukrainian soldiers take positions outside a military facility as two vehicles burn, on a street in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, February 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti) #
On February 28, the Latvian government also called on its citizens to participate.
“Our citizens who want to support Ukraine and volunteer to serve there to defend Ukraine’s independence and our common security should be able to do so,” the message says.