Ukrainian fighter who returned from Scotland to serve killed in action two days before his 21st birthday

Twenty-year-old Ukrainian combat medic and drone operator Arkadii Petrov, who had returned from Scotland to serve, was killed on September 18, 2026, during a combat mission in eastern Ukraine. Petrov, who had previously studied at the University of Edinburgh, was two days away from his 21st birthday and had been wounded multiple times before his death.