Grygorii (Greg) Tsekhmistrenko, a resident of Port Alice, was killed in battle in Ukraine.
The president of the Ukrainian-Canadian Cultural Society of Vancouver Island said the death of a Vancouver Island man in the war in Ukraine has brought the reality of war very close to home.
Grygorii Tsekhmistrenko, a Canadian citizen and resident of Port Alice, was killed in battle this week. “I didn’t know Grygorii in person but realization that war casualties are taking a toll on people who left a safe place like Canada and are part of your neighbourhood is devastating,” Fabrikov said.Andriy Shevchenko, the former Ukrainian ambassador to Canada, called Tsekhmistrenko “the best of our two nations.”
“There was so much love and faith in this house,” Shevchenko said. “They wanted to start their life, their new life, in Canada, but this man Grygorii Tsekhmistrenko, when he felt he could make a difference on the other side of the planet in his home country, he went.”
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