Jerónimo Guerreiro, Portuguese soldier who died in combat in Ukraine
A Portuguese soldier, who fought for Ukraine since February 2024, died during an operation in Kupiansk – Russian -controlled zone. Jerónimo Guerreiro was 23 and died in a “cause he believed.”
Jerónimo Guerreiro He was part of the international legion for the defense of Ukraine.
It will have died on May 29, in an operation in Kupiansk – a zone controlled by the Russians.
In the Ukraine War since February 2024, Jerónimo Guerreiro belonged to the Sacavém Volunteer Firefighters and was a military army military.
The young man was about eight months in the corporation before asking for suspension to fight in Ukraine.
However, the Secretary of State for Communities José Cesário confirmed the news of death, in combating the Portuguese citizen Jerónimo Guerreiro, and that the Family asked for consular support for the transfer of the body to Portugal.
“I have the information since yesterday [sábado] In the afternoon and only this morning I had the answer from the young man’s mother. Indeed, she confirmed me what happened. She received the information from there. I had received the information through personal sources here, ”he said.
“Attention, which is a unofficial information. We can only definitively confirm the fact after we know if the body appears, or where the body is, ”said the ruler.
“(The transfer is) The mother’s great concern. We can help her bring her body. I already asked our embassy to do everything we can to try to reach the body, but it is very difficult because the area, at least for the information we have, the area will be controlled by the Russians,” he explained.
Ao, the mother of Jerónimo, Cristina Jesushe said that his son was sent to a mission in that region on Thursday and was the target of “an ambush by the Russians.”
To the same newspaper, Armando BatistaCommander of the Sacavém Volunteer Firefighters, said that he spoke regularly with Jerónimo and recently advised him to come away.
“About a month ago he sent a message to say that things were complicated, but he felt good. He said that this was serious“.
This was also a repeated appeal by the mother, but the young man replied that he was “Do your duty, in a cause where you believed”.
“I always told him ‘Jerónimo, don’t go, don’t go.’ He died to honor his profession and what he liked to do. A mother say a child doesn’t go… They also follow her way, ”he says.
Asked if he has information about more Portuguese citizens to fight in Ukraine, José Cesário said “there is no confirmation” of numbers.
“We know there are cases there, but we have no full confirmation because they are people who are and then stop being and they do not inform us. They are there for merely personal”He concluded.
In July 2024, Another former Portuguese staple died in the war in Ukraine. João Luís Chaves Natário He could not resist a Russian attack on Dnipro after two years in combat.
