Croatian Volunteer Fighters Head for Ukrainian Frontline

Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic told a press conference on Ukraine on Sunday, that he had no information about volunteer fighters heading for the country and was just getting his information from the media. "Every departure to Ukraine is a personal act and a personal responsibility," the PM. 

The newspaper Dnevnik.hr on Saturday reported that Croatian volunteers had already left for Ukraine to fight the Russian invasion. "A larger group of volunteers should join the Ukrainian army in the next couple of days," one told Dnevnik.hr on Sunday.

Vecernji list also wrote that help for Ukraine was being collected in the premises of the Bad Blue Boys, Dinamo football club's supporters, in Zagreb. That action was reportedly coordinated by Denis Seler, who spent six years with Ukraine's far-right Azov battalion.

"We are on the Ukrainian border with Hungary. We are going to the battlefield to join the Ukrainian people and our Croatians. We know that chances are slim that this war will end in Ukraine," the same volunteer added.

"Ukraine helped us in 1991, and again after the earthquakes in Zagreb and Banovina. That's why we are going to help Ukrainians in the war," another volunteer, who contacted them from Letenye border crossing, told Vecernji list. 

RTL media wrote that after a group of volunteers left for the battlefield, it contacted one of them via video. 

"Other Croatian soldiers are already in Ukraine, that's an important point. The first transport of soldiers left for Ukraine yesterday and today two more teams are arriving - one from Split and Zadar and the second from Osijek," a young man wearing a balaclava said on the video.

"Ukraine was among the first countries to acknowledge Croatia's sovereignty while we were...