Just a few weeks ago Maksym Sliepukhov was taking cover in a Ukrainian forest after Russian missiles hit the army base where he had been training for combat. Now, after surviving the missile strike and getting his mother to Canada, Sliepukhov recounts his time in Ukraine.
TORONTO -- Just a few weeks ago Maksym Sliepukhov was taking cover in a Ukrainian forest after Russian missiles hit the army base where he and fellow international volunteers had been training for combat.
"Before February 24th, my regular day was like a casual, normal-human-being day. After February 24 ... It was the only one right decision to do," Sliepukhov says of choosing to join the fight in Ukraine. "My main goal from the beginning was to go to Kyiv, because I'm from Kyiv, but when we got to Ukraine the situation was changing so fast," he says.
The group took cover in the forest, Sliepukhov says, where they also helped support platoons who lost members in the attack. None of Sliepukhov's platoon members died, but a few were injured, he says. "She is still in stress but she keeps in touch with everyone she met in Poland who is coming to Canada and with friends who are still in Ukraine."
Sliepukhov says he started his mother's visa application even before Canada announced its special program for Ukraine and his girlfriend helped follow up on it while he was on the army base near Lviv.
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