Three volunteers from the United States have gone missing in Ukraine. The third missing American volunteer who fought for Ukraine, US Marine Corps veteran Grady Kurpasi, became known only now, but he disappeared on April 23-24. It is reported by CNN, referring to a friend of the Kurpasi family, George Heath..

Grady Kurpasi served 20 years in the US Marine Corps and retired in November 2021. According to George Heath, he decided to volunteer with the Ukrainians, but initially did not plan to fight directly at the front..

" – He wanted to go and help the Ukrainian people. In fact, he was not going to fight."

The last time close friends heard about Kurpasi was between April 23 and 24.

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The US State Department, according to CNN, is aware of the disappearance of a third American who went to Ukraine to fight against Russia. This was said by State Department spokesman Ned Price at a briefing on Thursday.. Price did not name the third missing American, but said the State Department is in contact with his family..

According to Hit, Kurpasi arrived in Ukraine on March 7 and reached Kyiv on March 21. He, like other fighters of the foreign legion, was assigned to take up an observation post at the end of April in the Kherson region, around the time when Kurpasi stopped communicating with his wife and friends in the United States..

According to Heath, on April 26, Kurpasi and the Foreign Legion troops who were serving at the post at the time began to “become subjected to small arms fire.”.

Kurpasi and another soldier " Kurpasi then radioed the Ukrainian military to start shooting back, and according to Heath, "

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The State Department told Kim that Kurpasi went missing on April 28.. The reason he was reported missing is because his body has not been found or identified, he added..

Heath called Kurpasi, his USMC platoon leader from 2012 to 2014, a " " He always took care of his Marines,” he said..

Recall that recently it became known about two missing American volunteers in Ukraine - this is 39-year-old Alexander John-Robert and 27-year-old Andy Tai Ngoc Huynh.