If you need to fly to Ukraine to affix the struggle effort against Russia, a tech government says that he’ll entrance the money to make it occur.

The Verge originally reported that Anthony Capone, the President of cell medical providers supplier DocGo, is the brand new founding father of an LLC solely dedicated to sending volunteer militants and medical personnel over to the struggle zone to defend Ukraine from Russia’s assault. The firm, dubbed Ukrainian Democracy LLC, says on its website that it was “formed with the sole purpose of supporting the defense of Ukraine and its people,” and that its founders will present journey and different bills for anybody prepared to affix the hassle.

“Ukrainian Democracy LLC’s mission is to support financially, logistically, and by providing the necessary equipment to volunteers from around the world who desire to defend Ukraine but lack the resources to join the International Legion of Defense of Ukraine,” the corporate alleges.

The Verge spoke with one of many firm’s volunteers, a U.S. navy veteran and former Army Combat Medic, who confirmed that he was taking a Thursday flight to Warsaw to affix the motion.

In a latest LinkedIn publish, Capone said that the group had already made contact with over “over 400 volunteers that will be going over to support the defense of Ukraine this week. All have prior military and/or medical trauma experience.” The firm’s web site additional claims a minimum of 21 folks have already been deployed to the area.

Capone’s volunteers aren’t alone, both. The horrific humanitarian crisis spawned by Russia’s navy invasion of Ukraine has impressed a variety of Westerners to precise curiosity in becoming a member of the combat, and, truly, Ukraine is encouraging them: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky just lately introduced the formation of the International Legion of Territorial Defense of Ukraine—a corporation meant to facilitate the mobilization of volunteer militants from overseas international locations who could need to journey to Ukraine to affix the struggle. Dmytro Kuleba, Ukraine’s Foreign Minister, recently claimed that some 22,000 folks from 52 totally different international locations had already volunteered as a part of this effort. Relevantly, Capone’s group plans on sending its volunteers into Ukraine by way of Zelensky’s International Legion, although he clarified to The Verge {that a} majority of the 400 volunteers are nonetheless awaiting approval from the group.

But whereas the need to defend a besieged nation is admirable, it may not in the end be that nice of an thought. The White House and State Department have explicitly warned in opposition to civilians touring to Ukraine to affix the struggle. In reality, they’ve truly been urging Americans in Ukraine to do the opposite: i.e., to get out of dodge.

“Ukrainians have shown their courage and they are calling on every resource and lever they have to defend themselves. We applaud their bravery,” the State Department recently told NBC News. “However, our Travel Advisory remains: U.S. citizens should not travel to Ukraine, and those in Ukraine should depart immediately if it is safe to do so using commercial or other privately available options for ground transportation.”

Aside from the truth that it’s extremely harmful, evidently such volunteering might, in actual fact, add to the chaos, not assist it. Indeed, the prospect of an ever-growing variety of Americans and Westerners preventing Russians inside Ukraine clearly has overt geopolitical ramifications—the likes of which aren’t particularly good.