Unable to fight now, two Ukrainian amputees walk to raise funds for a military hospital
LA TimesUkrainian war veteran Oleksandr Shvetsov walks along a highway toward Kyiv from Zhytomyr to meet his friend Serhii Khrapko on their 75-mile fundraising walk. The task for the Ukrainianwar veterans was clear: From different cities, Oleksandr Shevtsov and Serhii Khrapko would walk 75 miles and meet somewhere in the middle in honor of their comrades wounded in Russia’s war against their homeland. Shevtsov, 38, was called up for military service nine years ago when pro-Russia separatists seized government buildings in Ukraine’s Donbas region in the east and proclaimed the Donetsk People’s Republic and Luhansk People’s Republic as independent states, starting the war for the region. He told himself, “I will never sit in a wheelchair again.” Before the war’s launch in 2014, Khrapko, 45, was a carpenter, making furniture for kindergartens.
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