The son of a British MP joined the war in Ukraine, attacking Russian armored vehicles

According to British newspaper INews, Ben Grant appeared in a battlefield video showing him leading a team of British and American veterans on a mission to destroy a Russian armored vehicle in the fierce battle in the South China Sea. Ukraine.

Ben Grant, 30, son of Helen Grant, a British Conservative MP from Kent, has joined a platoon of foreign fighters supporting Ukraine in the war against Russia.

In the video, Ben Grant and his teammates prepare to attack a BTR – a Russian armored vehicle – from a forest on the front line in northeastern Ukraine.

The move was part of a 15-hour mission on Thursday, May 26, by a group of foreign fighters. At the end of the mission, about 8 Russian soldiers were killed. In addition, after that, another 30 Russian soldiers died in a firefight with a group of 13 foreign fighters from the US and UK who joined with Ukrainian forces to storm a Russian trench.

During the mission, a fighter burst out from the forest and aimed a shoulder-fired Matador anti-tank missile at the BTR armored vehicle. Next, Ben Grant, who spent more than five years as a commando in the Royal Marines, shouted “shoot it now” before the missile was launched.

Video captured by the drone shows that the Russian BTR was then blown up in the presence of a group of British and American foreign fighters supported by 14 more Ukrainian soldiers.

Dozens of British volunteers have traveled to Ukraine to fight against the Russian army.

In March, Ben Grant posed for a photo at Lviv train station with other British military veterans. Grant revealed that he did not inform his mother – who has been a congressman for the past 12 years – that he was going to Ukraine to join the war.

British Armed Forces Minister James Heappey previously stressed that British citizens should not go to Ukraine to fight.