Ukrainian Peacekeeper dies.

The Times reports:

A Ukrainian peacekeeper has been killed in Iraq after a vehicle he was travelling in overturned. He became the first soldier from the former Soviet republic to die in the country, the Defence Ministry said in Kiev. Yuriy Koydan, commander of a Ukrainian unit patrolling the area around the Kut airbase in southern Iraq, died from injuries suffered when his vehicle turned over, the ministry said.

I’m especially puzzled by this as, while the Ukraine agreed to send non-combat troops on humanitarian grounds (532-man 19th Army Battalion, specialists in biological and chemical weapon handling, to be based in Kuwait.), they did so on the condition that they would not enter Iraq.

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