According to British media reports, Ukrainian President Zelensky said in a televised statement on the 3rd that the first wave of 16,000 "volunteers" from other countries has arrived in Ukraine and began to help defend Ukraine. Ukraine will set up an "International Defence Corps" made up of foreign "volunteers." Zelensky did not specify where the volunteers came from. Previously, countries such as Denmark, Latvia, the United Kingdom, Poland and Croatia allowed their citizens to go to Ukraine to "aid against Russia."
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kuba said that the "volunteer army" of 16 countries was on its way.
It was also reported that the Ukrainian Embassy in Japan also recruited 70 Japanese to fight in Ukraine, about 50 of whom were former members of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces. However, Japanese legal circles have alleged that if the Japanese are conscripted into the war by Ukraine, or if they touch on the "preparation and planning of war crimes without authorization" in article 93 of the Japanese criminal law, that is, "planning acts of war with foreign countries without the permission of the government", or face imprisonment of 3 months to 5 years, they can be exempted from the sentence.
The news of the arrival of foreign "volunteers" from Ukraine coincided with the imminent holding of the second round of negotiations between Ukraine and Russia in the Białowieza Primitive Forest Reserve (bordering Poland) in Brest Oblast, Belarus. Assistant Zelensky said the Ukrainian delegation had taken a helicopter and was expected to hold a second round of talks with Russian representatives within hours. As for the members of the delegation, yesterday Assistant Zelensky announced that he was the original team, including Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov, Mykhailo Podoliak, adviser to the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, and Mykola Tochytsky, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.
16 countries? 16,000 people? These figures are somewhat watery. Zelensky is playing with public opinion again. The Russian side, which has seen the world, is estimated not to eat this set.
