A man in Calgary was injured in a Russian attack in Ukraine in Ukraine

“unrelenting”. This is like a maid Paul Hughes It describes the recent Russian attacks on Ukraine.

“Over the past three hours, the city has been bombed by Shahids, missiles and cruise missiles,” said Hughes, speaking with Global News from the Ukrainian capital in Kyiv Thursday evening.

“In the past two months to three months, it really intensified,” Hughes added, as the bombs exploded in the distance.

“June was nearly 6000 Shahid (drones) attacks, and missiles – they become very bad here. You can smell it in the air. You can see smoke.”

Hughes has been in Ukraine since 2022 As a volunteer, do human work with Shar and Al -KindiHug (Ukraine Help – Popular Support).

A few weeks after his arrival, his son McKenzi, who is now 22 years old and working alongside the Ukrainian forces, joined him, where he organized relief efforts and humanitarian aid to people who were displaced along the front lines of the war.

On the day of Canada, during one of that huge Russian bombing, Mackenzie was injured.

Fortunately, he is still alive, but his injuries were not yet clear.

When he got a word from the attack, Paul Hughes rushed to be with his son.

“I spent the past few days – I traveled in the form of Kharkiv immediately when I called me his unit, so I was with him constantly since the first of July,” Hughes said.

McKenzi burns about 30 percent of his body. He was installed under a car but was saved by other members of his team.

The elder Hughes said: “He is stable, but he is not fine.” “Don’t be hit by a witness and be fine.”

Hughes said he was in contact with the Canadian embassy, ​​and there were people who offered an attempt to return his son to Canada. But McKenzi said no – he did not want to leave Ukraine.

“He gets very good care here in Kiev,” Hughes said. “In a burning burn unit. I mean that some of the best doctors in the world are now in Ukraine because of all the shock over the past three and a half years. So they deal with a lot of burns. He is receiving exceptional care at the present time.”

After seeing many innocent people who were killed in the Russian bombing, Hughes is inspired by the courage of the Ukrainian people.

“There are people, civilians, mostly civilians, who die regularly from terrorist attacks. On the front line, it is soldiers, but in cities where a purely civilian is purely. This is pure terrorism.”

“It is one thing to have a general warfare, confrontation line and soldier in exchange for the soldier and artillery in exchange for artillery, but these are attacks that do not soften the civilian population and this pure terrorism.”

Hughes concluded our interview by asking his friends in Canada to keep his son in their ideas.

“He is a very strong young man and has a really good chance to return to formation,” Hughes said. “This is my hope as a father. I love my son.”

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