Biden mourns American killed in Ukraine
President Joe Biden expressed dismay Friday at the news that an
American, Willy Joseph Cancel, was killed while fighting alongside
Ukrainian forces.
"It is very sad. He left a little baby behind," Biden told reporters at the White House where he was hosting a meeting of federal inspectors general.
Cancel was killed fighting
alongside Ukrainian forces. The
22-year-old was working with a private military contracting company when he was killed on
April 25. The company sent him to
Ukraine, and he was being paid while he was fighting there.
Cancel served in the
US Marine Corps from December 2017 until November 2021, according to Marine spokesperson
Maj. Jim Stenger.
Cabrera said her son signed up to work for the private military contracting company on top of his full-time job as a corrections officer in
Tennessee shortly before the war in
Ukraine broke out at the end of February.
