Yuri Hundych, 41, and Roman Boshuslavskyi, 36, took a break from fighting Russian invaders on the frontlines of their homeland to be honored by the NFL at the big game Sunday.
“While we are here, our brothers and sisters are on the frontlines. Here we are showing we are the same people as the Americans, we like football…and we stand for democracy.”
Boshuslavskyi is also a junior sergeant and former ULAF player who worked as a lawyer before fighting Russians in the illegally annexed Luhansk region. He is the father of three children under 5 and lost his football-playing brother Danylo in the war, he said. Boshuslavskyi said he would return to Ukraine to continue fighting in a week, but in the meantime, he felt it was important to be an ambassador for his home country. Still, he had mixed feelings about the trip to Manhattan and Glendale.
“Not just a few but hundreds of Ukrainians and they have an entire league,” the former gov said, before showing his guests around the revamped World Trade Center. Hundych, left, and Bohuslavsky, laid a bouquet of flowers at the survivor tree touring the 9-11 Memorial with Pataki.“Ukraine will come back and rebuild and rise to new heights and soar greater than ever,” Pataki predicted. “The rule of law has got to prevail. Democracy and freedom has got to prevail.”
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