Keiichi Kurogi is one of dozens of men in Japan who offered to join an ¡°international legion¡± to fight Russian invaders after Ukraine¡¯s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called for volunteers.
Kurogi, a 39-year-old office worker who lives in southwestern Japan, said he rang the Ukrainian Embassy on Monday after seeing its plea for volunteers on Twitter.
¡°When I saw images of elderly men and women in Ukraine holding guns and going to the front, I felt I should go in their place,¡± he said.
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