As Russian forces bombarded Ukrainian territory, Kyiv called for volunteer combatants from outside Ukraine's borders to join a newly-formed international legion.
The Foreign Office does not have the exact figure for how many Britons answered Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s call to arms, but some estimates place the figure in the high hundreds or low thousands.
But Ben Atkin, the 18-year-old volunteer thought to be the youngest Brit to make the journey to war-torn Ukraine, described the scenes that greeted him as “mayhem” and that volunteers stand little chance of surviving.
He told Channel 4 News: “You can’t trust these people to look after you”.
He added: “It’s disorganised mayhem, you are ill-equipped, you’re poorly armed.
“You will be used as cannon-fodder”....
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