Relatives: Former US Marine killed while fighting in Ukraine

By JONATHAN DREW
Associated Press

Relatives say a 22-year-old former U.S. Marine has been killed alongside Ukrainian forces in the war with Russia, in the first known death of an American citizen fighting in Ukraine. Rebecca Cabrera tells CNN her son Willy Joseph Cancel was killed Monday while working for a military contracting company that sent him to Ukraine. According to an online fundraising page, Cancel had volunteered with his local fire department in New York while in high school, and he had a 7-month-old son. His widow, Brittany Cancel, told Fox News she sees her husband as a hero. President Joe Biden said: “It’s very sad. He left a little baby behind.”