A graduate of the U.S. Military Academy and the only American known to have fought alongside Ukrainian forces against pro-Russian separatists was killed in eastern Ukraine, his brother told RFE/RL.
Mark Gregory Paslawsky, 55, died while fighting with the volunteer Donbass Battalion.
Paslawsky, who fought under the nom de guerre “Franko,” was killed on Aug. 19 during fighting in the town of Ilovaysk, near the Ukrainian city of Donetsk, according to a Facebook post by Ukrainian Interior Ministry adviser Anton Gerashchenko.
Paslawsky was born in 1959 in New York and grew up in a tight-knit Ukrainian-American family in New Jersey. …read more
