A 19-year-old Polish citizen Filip Antosiak died near Pokrovsk in the Donetsk region.
The death of a Polish citizen near Pokrovsk
As RMF24 reports, Filip Antosiak left his studies in the UK and volunteered for the Ukrainian strike drone unit.
The Polish citizen served in the 25th Airborne Brigade.
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The 19-year-old boy's parents, Anzhelika Kuza and Marcin Antosiak, currently live in Britain.
They said that after finishing his studies at Cambridge, Philip said that he wanted to build a career in the British army, but later admitted that he went to Ukraine.
— He was very proud of helping people. He always talked about it when he called us. In the first letter he wrote to us after he went to Ukraine, he apologized for telling us a lie for the first time in his life, — said Marcin Antosiak.
According to the father of the deceased volunteer, this is very difficult for them, but they are proud of their own son.
In Kyiv, they said goodbye to Philip Antosiak in the St. Michael's Golden-Domed Cathedral. From there, the procession went to Independence Square.
As journalists note, during the farewell ceremony, the anthems of Ukraine and Poland were played, and the flags of both countries were placed on the coffin. The parents were given a posthumous award for Philip from the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
According to updated information, Philip Antosyak will be buried in the city of Lowicz in the Lodz Voivodeship in Poland.
