Ukrainian/Irish zoomer droned in Ukraine
>The remains of a Dubliner missing in Ukraine since August, when he was killed by a Russian drone on the frontline, have been recovered and identified using DNA testing.
>Mr Ryzhuk, an Irish citizen born in the Coombe Hospital, Dublin, to Ukrainian parents, travelled to Ukraine to join the Ukrainian Foreign Legion after turning 18.
>In a video posted on the Butusov Plus YouTube channel on March 23rd, he is seen speaking in Ukrainian in a military bunker in eastern Ukraine. He says he is an Irish citizen from south Dublin and does not have Ukrainian citizenship but that at home he always spoke Ukrainian with his parents.
>In the video, Mr Ryzhuk says he was 17 years old when the Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022 and was eager to be involved in the war effort.
>He says his parents confiscated his Irish passport in an attempt to stop him travelling to Ukraine but he says he applied for a new one and went to Ukraine to join the Ukrainian Foreign Legion when he turned 18.
>“I tricked my parents a bit. I hope they will forgive me,” he says.
>Mr Ryzhuk was awarded by his commander earlier in the year for setting a new record for his unit by using first-person-view drones (FPVs) to hit six Russian artillery guns and kill two Russian soldiers in Avdiivka in Ukraine’s war-torn Donetsk region.
Should have listened to his parents