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A Latvian MP Has Travelled to Ukraine to Fight Against the Russian Invasion
Juris Jurašs is understood to be the first foreign politician to sign up as a volunteer to fight against Russian forces in Ukraine.
9.3.22
A Latvian MP has travelled to Ukraine to fight as a volunteer against invading Russian forces in Ukraine, his party confirmed Tuesday, in what’s believed to be an unprecedented move by a foreign politician in the conflict.
Juris Jurašs, a deputy in Latvia’s Parliament representing the centre-right New Conservatives party, was pictured alongside a Ukrainian soldier in a photo circulated on Twitter on Tuesday, which claimed the politician had come to Ukraine to fight the Russian invasion as part of a newly formed legion of foreign volunteers.
A spokesperson for Latvia’s New Conservatives, part of the country’s ruling coalition government, confirmed to VICE World News that the claims were true.
The party’s leader, Latvian Justice Minister Jānis Bordāns, told VICE World News that he supported Jurašs’s endeavours.
“He saw this possibility to join the Ukrainian armed forces and [thought] he can give more to Ukraine and Latvia if he joins,” he said. “I respect his decision.”
The Ukrainian news site Lviv Portal also reported on Jurašs’s arrival. The site quoted Ihor Vasyunyk, the head of a volunteer territorial defence unit in Lviv, western Ukraine, as saying that Jurašs understood that “in this war Ukraine is protecting not only itself but the whole world.”
“He is eager to fight. With such friends – Ukraine will win,” said Vasyunyk.
Experts tracking the movement of foreign volunteers to Ukraine said the involvement of a serving politician was hugely significant, and an indication of how international attitudes towards the conflict had shifted in the wake of Russia’s brutal invasion last month.
“To my knowledge this is the first foreign MP to fight,” said Kacper Rękawek, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oslo’s Center for Research on Extremism.
“It is a remarkable development.”

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