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Emotions ran high at the Montréal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport, where a second charter flight carrying people like Olena Biruk touched down Sunday morning. The 20-year-old was one of 306 Ukrainians that flew into Montreal from Poland just before 11 a.m. ET Sunday after being approved for emergency travel to Canada. “Yesterday, I don’t sleep. I’m shocked,” Biruk …
Read More »How COVID, Brexit and the war in Ukraine are driving up the price of fish and chips in Britain
At west London’s Hooked Fish and Chips, Bally Singh is struggling to keep the tills ringing for a British tradition, with prices sky-rocketing for fish, potatoes, cooking oil and even the flour used for the batter the dish is cooked in. Cranking up their bubbling oil friers only to see …
Read More »Russia launches fresh offensive, wants sanctions relief to free up Ukraine food supply routes
Russian forces launched offensives on towns in eastern Ukraine on Wednesday, with constant mortar bombardment destroying several houses and killing civilians, Ukrainian officials said, as Russia focuses its attack on the industrial Donbas region. Russia has been focused on attempting to seize the separatist-claimed Donbas’s two provinces, Donetsk and Luhansk, …
Read More »Canadian volunteer in Ukraine roots for the Calgary Flames
It means staying up until 4:30 a.m., but Steve Rock is cheering for the Calgary Flames from Ukraine. Rock, 34, was travelling in Europe when Russia invaded Ukraine. He wanted to find a way to be useful, so after several difficult conversations with family and friends, he decided to become …
Read More »Bringing up the dead: Ukraine searches the battlefields for unidentified remains
Warning: This story contains graphic language and images of human remains It must have been a cold, lonely, frightening death for Gavril Vanyushev. The young Russian soldier was killed on the outskirts of Kyiv in a sleepy, forested hamlet about 50 kilometres west of the Ukrainian capital. Retired schoolteacher Kateryna Karabchuck, …
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