WATCH ABOVE: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau joined other world leaders in Kyiv on Saturday to show solidarity with Ukraine on the 2nd anniversary of Russia's of Russia's full-scale invasion.In Edmonton, Archpriest Cornell Zubritsky, sees it every week among parishioners at Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral of St. John the Baptist.
“It’s not psychologically safe. It’s not physically safe for the kids to stay in the country. That’s why my family left almost immediately.” “When I came back and came out of the airport, it just felt like my second home ,” she said.“But unfortunately it will still not be a safe environment for kids. It will still not be a safe environment for adults as well, because there will be such a big amount of weapons circulating in society.Click to share quote on Twitter: "Maybe I will be wrong, and maybe things will be much better."
Relatives say Mischenko remains alive and well in Kyiv, surviving the conflict that has destroyed her home and estranged her from her husband and sister.In an interview six months ago with The Canadian Press in her Kyiv apartment, Mischenko, held up a small piece of blue paper with her name and address.Olyna Mischenko in her hometown of Mariupol, 840 kilometres southeast of Kyiv, recounts how she saw local residents begin to support the Russian invasion, including her husband.
He said the war is not really two years old but an extension of the conflict that began in 2014 when Russian annexed Crimea.“When you look at the history of the fighting that occurred there during the Second World War, and you can even go to the First World War, the tradition of fighting there is you fight until your enemy is dead,” he said.