Taiwanese volunteer killed in war for Ukraine
Taiwanese volunteer killed in war for Ukraine (illustrative photo: Getty Images)
Taiwanese volunteer soldier killed in Ukraine. A retired special forces soldier was killed by Russian shelling, reports China Times News.
According to the newspaper, six mercenaries who joined the Ukrainian Regular Volunteer Army remain in Ukraine.
At the same time, the newspaper reported that Wu Zhongda, a mercenary who resigned from the army special forces and joined the Ukrainian army, was killed yesterday during a brutal shelling on the Ukrainian battlefield.
Wu Zhongda, a resigned mercenary (photo: chinatimes.com)
He became the second Chinese citizen to be killed on the Ukrainian battlefield.
The first Chinese citizen to be killed on the battlefield in Ukraine was a 25-year-old man, Tseng Sheng-kuang, who lived in Hualien.
After joining the Ukrainian Volunteer Army, he fought in Luhansk in eastern Ukraine but died of blood loss in November 2022.
According to preliminary information, Ukraine will provide a pension of UAH 12 million to foreign mercenaries who died in the war, but their families must apply to Ukraine.
A 22-year-old volunteer from Poland was recently killed at the front in Ukraine.
