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Ángel Adrover Martínez
, a 31-year-old Mallorcan and telecommunications engineer, died last weekend in Ukraine, where
he had traveled from the Netherlands a few months ago
with the intention of fighting on the front lines.
The circumstances of his death are still being investigated and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has already begun efforts to repatriate the body.
Being a
volunteer fighter
, Foreign was unaware of Adrover's presence in Ukraine.
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According to the information released so far, the boy's family,
originally from the Majorcan town of Felanitx
, learned that he was moving to Ukraine in the middle of last March.
He went to war from Holland, where he resided.
In statements collected by the newspaper
Última Hora
, the mother of the deceased combatant explained that her son told her
that he was going to Ukraine to carry out humanitarian work
and that he later went on to carry out support work as an engineer for the army at a military base in the town. from Lviv.
In the middle of last month he
informed them that he was in the second line of fire
.
They were still in contact with him but had little information about his activity.
Last Friday they received the news of his death, of which no further details have emerged at the moment.
They define him as a very altruistic boy who showed interest in the war from the moment of its outbreak, which he witnessed from Holland.
On YouTube you can see a video uploaded by him on May 11 in which he explains how to load an M4A1 rifle.
Screenshot of the video of Ángel Adrover loading an M4A1 rifle.
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