6 DAYS IN UKRAINE

WAR HAS BEEN RAGING IN UKRAINE SINCE RUSSIA INVADED ITS DEMOCRATIC NEIGHBORING COUNTRY ON FEB. 24, 2022. IN MY OPINION, THIS WAR HAS HAD A DEVASTATING IMPACT ON UKRAINE, INCLUDING ON THE GAME WE ALL LOVE, HOCKEY. FROM NOV. 21 THROUGH NOV. 26, I TRAVELLED FROM ONE END OF UKRAINE TO WITHIN A FEW KILOMETERS OF THE EASTERN FRONT LINE IN THE WAR WITH RUSSIA AND BACK AGAIN TO LEARN WHAT I COULD ABOUT THE STATE OF HOCKEY IN WAR-TORN UKRAINE. HERE IS MY FIRSTHAND ON-THE-GROUND REPORT

BY W. GRAEME ROUSTAN

THN publisher W. Graeme Roustan and president of Ukraine Ice Hockey Federation Georgii Zubko arrive at Kramatorsk railway station, the easternmost train station in the Donetsk Region of Ukraine serving the front lines in defense of the invading Russian military. It was reported by Reuters on April 8, 2022, that Ukraine and its allies blamed Russia for a missile attack that killed at least 52 people at this train station packed with women, children and the elderly fleeing the threat of a Russian offensive in the east. >UKRAINE THIS MAP DETAILS THN PUBLISHER W. GRAEME ROUSTAN’S TRIP ACROSS UKRAINE TO WITNESS THE DEVASTATION OF THE WAR ON THE COUNTRY’S HOCKEY INFRASTRUCTURE. MARY MIGUS WAS MY grandmother, and a few years after the First World War concluded, on Jan. 27, 1923, she departed on…

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