War in Ukraine: French among the volunteers of the international legion – The HuffPost

dia images via Getty ImagesLike many Ukrainian civilians, French people have decided to take up arms to help Ukraine confront Russian troops.UKRAINE – While nearly two million refugees have already left Ukraine on Tuesday, March 8, others make the opposite route, towards the front. Since the entry of Russian troops into Ukraine on February 24, in France as elsewhere, the outpouring of support for the Ukrainian population has taken on different more or less radical forms. In this sense, on February 28, President Volodymyr Zelensky announced the creation of an “international legion” also called the international brigade, with the aim of calling on volunteers from all over the world to help repel the Russian army.Dmytro Kouleba the Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs declared this Sunday March 6 that nearly 20,000 fighters had already volunteered to lend a hand, and according to a source from a European intelligence service quoted by BFMTV, they would even be 30,000. Ukraine’s objective would be to reach the symbolic bar of 100,000 fighters. “They come mainly from European countries”, also specified Dmytro Kouleba on the American channel CNN. “Formally not recommended to go there” For now, it is still very difficult to estimate the proportion of French people who have decided to take up arms to defend Ukraine alongside its inhabitants. To BFMTV, the Ukrainian embassy in France, does not give a precise answer but a spokesperson indicates having received “very many requests from French nationals”. Liberation summarizes for its part the first echoes of the French commitment in Ukraine, citing the many examples reported in the French press since Zelensky’s appeal. Checknews also mentions the existence of a private Facebook group called “French Volunteers in Ukraine” which currently has more than 10,000 members. Since the tipping of the conflict in an armed war, on the side of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the watchword is caution. On its website, the Quai d’Orsay states that it “remains formally advised not to travel to Ukraine until further notice”. While Denmark or the United Kingdom (which later backtracked by calling the move “illegal and unnecessary”) agreed to let the volunteers join Ukraine to fight, the French ministry tells HuffPost that the official recommendation still remains to formally advise against travel to Ukraine, including for French volunteers, aligning itself with the position of countries such as Australia. The Quai d’Orsay also specifies that it does not have an exact figure on the number of these French volunteers. An active mobilization campaign Moreover, volunteers who wish to join this “international legion of territorial defense of Ukraine” are invited to contact the Ukrainian embassies directly to report themselves. Ukraine is doing everything possible to allow a rapid mobilization of this squad. A website has recently been created to direct each future fighter to the appropriate contacts in his country, and even gives the seven steps to easily join the international legion, as you can see in the visual below. screenshot fightforuaOn this official website of the Ukrainian government, all the steps to join the fights are methodically listed. A QR Code system has also been deployed to directly download an online registration form in order to start the administrative procedures without going to an embassy. As BFMTV points out, the wall of the Ukrainian embassy in France is covered with a poster informing “foreigners ready to fight”. A practice applied in different forms in all the countries listed (57 in total) on the Ukrainian site mentioned earlier. Screenshot Ukraine embassy registration formAn example of a form to fill out to join the “international legion” for Ukraine.Once this document and the supporting documents are in order, future soldiers are required to pass an interview before seeing their application for enlistment accepted or not. And even if a military background is advisable, nothing prevents you from enlisting without the slightest experience in combat. light. A number of French people have already taken the road to Ukraine to actively help. These are essentially professionals, such as firefighters, nurses or stretcher-bearers who decide to fill their vehicles with equipment and take the road to the East and by their own means to provide logistical support. But going to the front to fight also implies that French insurance does not cover war costs, especially in the event of engagement under a foreign banner. A trip at one’s own risk and peril which also involves increased surveillance by the internal intelligence services. typical profile does not seem to stand out for the moment apart from the high number of soldiers or former members of the army, “the returnees could be implicated for mercenary activity or association of terrorist criminals if their actions in Ukraine contravene French laws ”.But this is not the only risk that these French people run. If some of them were captured by Russian troops during the clashes, the spokesperson for the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that they would be prosecuted. “I would like to officially stress that mercenaries sent by the West to help the Ukrainian regime will not be entitled to prisoner of war status,” he said according to Russian news agency Interfax. that the members of the “international legion” will not have the status of prisoners of war but that of mercenaries, a decision which goes completely against the Geneva Convention on prisoners of war, as its article clearly states 4. See also on The HuffPost: During the war in Ukraine, she recounts her daily life in a bomb shelter

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