Russia's War Against Ukraine
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Stefan Jajecznyk and Taras Kuzio: Russia’s war in east Ukraine – time for the diaspora to step up
Mark Gregory Paslawsky, known by the codename \"Franko,\" the sole American fighting on the Ukrainian side of the war in the east of the country, died from injuries sustained in battle in the town of Ilovaysk on Aug. 19.
As fighting in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions intensifies, the first foreign member of the Ukrainian military has become a casualty of Russia's proxy war. Codenamed 'Franko', Mark Paslawsky who grew up in the Ukrainian diaspora in New Jersey and was a West Point-trained officer in the US Rangers, gave up his US citizenship for a Ukrainian passport and the chance to serve in the Donbas volunteer battalion, one of more than 20 in Ukraine’s newly formed National Guard.
