The Ukrainian government, under the leadership of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has created a military unit comprised of foreign volunteers for the defence of Ukraine against Russia as part of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Referred to as the International Legion of Territorial Defense of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Міжнародний легіон територіальної оборони України, romanized: Mizhnarodnyy lehion terytorial'noyi oborony Ukrayiny), its formation was announced in a statement by Ukrainian foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba on 27 February 2022, at around 11AM local time.