Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

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Mexican soldier secretly traveled to Ukraine to help defend the country from Russian invasion

A 29-year-old Mexican identified only by the name Luis is one of the 20,000 foreigners who fight alongside the Ukrainian forces against the Russian army, as he moved to the Eastern European country to join the forces fighting the invasion.

The New York Times made a compilation of foreigners who are enlisted to fight alongside the Ukrainian army, in which Luis appears, who decided to move to the war zone after seeing a photograph of a pregnant woman leaving a bombed-out hospital.

"I saw my sister's face in that woman . . .

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