ICYMI: Calgary aid worker marks one year in Ukraine yyc
They’re basing that work out of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest centre and the most fought-over city in the Second World War, changing hands between the Soviet and German armies four times.
But after 12 months of danger, any initial nervousness has evaporated, as it has for many Ukrainians, he said.Missile strikes on the city, he said, often occur days in a row. Calgarian Mac Hughes in Kherson region last month poses in front of a watermelon, a fruit synonymous with the area. He was on his way to deliver aid to the war-torn area.“ was going right over us, once it landed one building over from us,” said Mac Hughes.Despite enduring eight months of Russian occupation and now regular shelling, Hughes said the people of Kherson and those helping them remain determined to resist and help each other.
Some villages, he said, contain barely any undamaged homes and “there’s quite a few neglected villages where even though it’s been liberated, the elderly can’t leave their houses and don’t have family to help them.” “It’s a place I lived very close to and a couple of guys I know died here — it’s pretty crazy,” he said, adding he worries for civilians in the region who’ve chosen not to evacuate.Article contentBut father and son say they continue to be inspired by Ukrainian resolve, with Paul recalling an elderly woman whose son had just been killed in a Russian artillery strike in the Donbas region.
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