First Brit to be killed in the Ukraine war named as Scott Sibley

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First Brit to be killed in the Ukraine war named as Scott Sibley

Scott Sibley, a veteran of the British armed forces, has been named by friends as the Briton who died in Ukraine.

The UK’s Foreign Office confirmed that the British national had been killed in Ukraine whilst a second British man is missing.

It is thought that the two men had been fighting against Russian fighters after joining Ukrainian soldiers as volunteers, but this remains unconfirmed. The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) did not provide details on why the men were in Ukraine.

‘Scott was a son, father, brother and uncle,’ his friend Craig wrote on the page. ‘To me he was a friend like no other and the bravest person I’ve had the pleasure to have known, he was as good as a brother to me.

‘His life may have been cut short but he lived to the full and did things the Sibs way, right until the end.’

Another fundraising page set up for Sibley’s relatives described his ‘infectious laugh’, adding: ‘We all have memories with him and he has helped us in different ways.’

Sibley leaves behind his daughter who was diagnosed with stage 4 high risk Neuroblastoma, a rare form of cancer that mostly affects young children.

Following her diagnosis in 2018, Sibley shaved his head so that his daughter would not feel different when she lost her hair, reported the BBC.