Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said that volunteers from 52 countries flocked to his country to fight alongside the Ukrainians in the face of the Russian war, while Britain refused to join its citizens to the battlefronts.
Kuleba said in a press conference today, Sunday, that the whole world stands today with Ukraine.
He added that the number of foreign volunteers willing to come to Ukraine has so far reached 20,000.
Earlier, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said 16,000 volunteers "to fight with the Ukrainians against the Russian invasion".
The Washington Post reported that it was not yet clear which countries the volunteers would cross into Ukraine from.
She said that the foreign fighters who have so far arrived in Ukraine from post-Soviet countries, but media reports spoke of the arrival of fighters from Japan, Britain and the United States.
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In the same context, the Chief of Staff of the British Armed Forces, Admiral Tony Radakin, stressed that the movement of UK citizens to Ukraine to fight is "illegal and unhelpful", calling on them to look for other means to support it "in the face of the Russian invasion".
Radakin's comments contradict the position of Secretary of State Liz Truss, who expressed her support for those willing to volunteer to fight, and to respond to an appeal to this effect made by President Volodymyr Zelensky to foreigners.
"We have been very clear that it is illegal and unhelpful for the British army or the British people to go to Ukraine," Radakin said.
"Support from the UK, support whatever you can. But this (going to fight) is not something you want to rush into, in terms of the sound of gunfire."
The British Foreign Office advised its citizens not to travel to Ukraine, and asked those present to leave it in a safe manner.