Marine veteran killed while volunteering as a fighter in Ukraine

DEATH OF THE DAY

Marine veteran killed while volunteering as a fighter in Ukraine
By Irene Loewenson
Aug 11, 10:59 AM
Smoke rise from an air defense base in the aftermath of an apparent Russian strike in Mariupol, Ukraine, Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022. (Evgeniy Maloletka/The Associated Press, File)

A Marine machine gunner veteran who went to Ukraine in February as a volunteer was killed in July, becoming at least the sixth Marine veteran to die in the war with Russia.

Lance Lawrence was killed July 29 in what a State Department spokesperson told Marine Corps Times was a drone attack.

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