A 29-year-old former Mexican soldier from Chihuahua made headlines on April 3 for his decision to volunteer for the Ukrainian armed forces to fight the Russian army in the city of Lviv, in western Ukraine.
After the newspaper The New York Times documenting stories of foreigners living in Ukraine, the story of Luis, a Mexican who fights as a volunteer in the Ukrainian army, came to light.
Luis, who has not given his last name to protect his identity, decided to enlist
in the Ukrainian army after seeing a photograph from the AP news agency showing a wounded pregnant woman.
The story goes that the former Mexican military man fought drug trafficking in Mexico for 10 years. After retiring, he dedicated himself to being a photographer of social events and maintained a photography studio.
However, he says that when he saw the AP image he could only imagine his family's pain and seeing himself reflected in that precarious situation.
Without hesitation, he decided to sell all his belongings and embark on his journey to Poland.
For his family and partner, the story was different. He told them that he was going on a long vacation because, in the words of Luis himself, the Mexican who fights as a volunteer in the Ukrainian army, "they will not be able to understand his need to enlist in such a dangerous situation."
The whereabouts of this Mexican who fights as a volunteer in the Ukrainian army are currently unknown, despite the fact that Russian documentation indicated the death of 180 foreign volunteers on the battlefield.
Luis was part of a legion of foreign volunteers summoned by Ukraine to fight against the Soviets, who were forced to enter the country in a rigid manner so that they could fight as best as possible.
According to Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, the number