A teenage Subway worker from Warrington applied online to join the fight against Russia despite having no military experience.
Jamie, 19, left his family behind to fight with the Ukrainian Army over the weekend.
His family believe he was influenced to join the fight by what he saw online and by reports in the media - including comments made by Liz Truss which appeared to encourage those joining Ukrainians to fight.
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Jamie's mum told ITV Granada Reports : "Every day now I'm just waiting for that phone call in the morning, or that text in the morning, to say 'I'm alive, I'm OK'."
Jamie reportedly contacted a London-based organisation last Friday about joining the fight in Ukraine, which replied saying he should only travel if he had relevant experience.
But the youngster responded, saying he had tickets to fly to Warsaw on Saturday, before he crossed the border into Ukraine.
"He's just a lazy teenager, a normal teenage boy," his mum told Granada Reports.
"He hasn't got any military experience or anything like that - it's just literally from Call of Duty.
"He did go to Army Cadets but he was only at the very early stages - he's never shot a rifle or anything like that."
Jamie's family told ITV they believe he was influenced by comments made by Liz Truss on a recent BBC interview, which was seen as a recently played video on his YouTube profile.
The Foreign Secretary told BBC One's Sunday Morning on February 27: "If people want to support that struggle [in Ukraine] I would support them in doing that."
Today (March 10), the Government has urged Brits not to travel to Ukraine to fight against
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