Over 66,000 Ukrainian Men Have Returned From Abroad to Fight, Says Defense Minister

Roman, 35, a Ukrainian living in Poland, displays his knife as he waits to cross into Ukraine to join the armed resistance against the Russian invasion at the Medyka border crossing in Medyka, Poland, on March 4, 2022. Sean Gallup/Getty Images

Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov said on Saturday that 66,224 Ukrainian men returned from abroad to join the fight against what Russia calls a “special military operation” in the country.

“That’s how many men returned from abroad at this moment to defend their country from the horde,” Reznikov said in a statement on social media. “These are 12 more combat and motivated brigades! Ukrainians, we are invincible.”