In Luxembourg – Residents want to leave to fight with the Ukrainians
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LUXEMBOURG – Residents have contacted the Consul of Ukraine in the Grand Duchy to be able to engage militarily in the conflict.
Claude Radoux, Ukrainian consul in Luxembourg, told The essential having received phone calls from residents who want to fight in Ukraine. They were five last week. They are now, but the manager no longer wishes to communicate on the number, in order “not to encourage untrained people to go and fight”. He also does not want to “give information to Russia”.
The volunteers answered the call of the Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, who invited Europeans with combat experience to go to Ukraine to fight the Russian army. “It’s a very delicate subject, resumes Claude Radoux. Among the people who have contacted me, some have no military experience. On the front, they would take considerable risks. I offered them to help Ukraine in other ways”.
“There is no law in Luxembourg on this subject”
But can a civilian in theory participate in a conflict abroad, in knowledge likely to directly cause death, injury or destruction, or to directly harm the operations or the military armed capabilities of the enemy? “There is no law in Luxembourg on this subject”, explains the Ministry of Defence, which specifies that residents who fight the Russian army could lose their civilian status and therefore protection against attacks.
It should be noted that the responsibility of Luxembourg, considered as a neutral State in the conflict in Ukraine, is not engaged if one or more of its citizens put themselves in the service of one of the belligerents in isolation.