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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Stephen Topping & Alahna Kindred

Subway worker, 19, with no military experience leaves family to fight in Ukraine

A teen Subway worker has left his family to join Ukraine in their fight against Russia - despite having no military experience.

Jamie, 19, was influenced online, including by comments made by Foreign Secretary Liz Truss appearing to encourage Brits to join the fight, his family said.

Jamie's mum told ITV Granada Reports : "Every day now I'm just waiting for that phone call in the morning, or that text in the morning, to say 'I'm alive, I'm OK'."

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