The 24-year-old 'empathised with the Ukrainian people' as he joined the fight against Russia's invasion of Ukraine, his father says.
A former British Army soldier who was killed fighting in Ukraine was a 'brave soul', his family has said. Liam Love was killed by a mortar bomb in Lyman in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine last month. The 24-year-old grew up in Coventry but his parents live in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, where his funeral will be held on Saturday. Mr Love joined Ukrainian forces earlier this year, having served with the Royal Anglian Regiment for four years.
'So he wanted to go out and help them to free themselves from what the Russians were doing at the time.' Mr Love's father said his son was not put off fighting in Ukraine despite being hit by shrapnel in the month before he was killed. On 9 October, the family received a call from a soldier who had been fighting alongside Mr Love. They were told he had been killed in action, in a call Mr Love's father said he had 'hoped would never have to take'.
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