Chris Menahan
InformationLiberation
A “former” US marine described by friends as a “lifelong leftist organizer” was reportedly killed last week in Bakhmut while fighting for Ukraine’s Foreign Legion.
The media is not calling Cooper “Harris” Andrews, 26, a fighter (or US proxy warrior) but is instead referring to him as a “volunteer” and a “veteran” who died not in combat with Russia on behalf of the US but “evacuating civilians” from Bakhmut.
From Fox News, “US Marine veteran killed in Ukraine, officials say”:
A U.S. Marine veteran was killed in Ukraine last week, according to an activist group in the country.
Cooper “Harris” Andrews, 26, was hit by a mortar April 19, during a battle for a crucial road to Bakmut, the Resistance Committee said in a statement posted on social media.
He died while defending evacuees alongside others who were killed, the group said.
Andrews joined the Foreign Legion, a group of foreign fighters assisting Ukrainian forces since being invaded by Russia, according to social media posts.
Andrews’ service in the Marines just so happened to have allegedly ended one month before the war began.
He served in the Marines from January 2017 to Jan. 16, 2022, a U.S. official told Fox News. He was stationed in Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, before being discharged as a ground electronics transmission systems maintainer and traveling to Ukraine.
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