More than 50 years after gangrene claimed his legs and his fingers, Hryhoriy Yanchenko joined the Ukrainian resistance to Russia's invasion. The Soviet army veteran says he raised $16,000 in the occupied city of Kherson for Ukrainian troops
He says he raised $16,000 in Kherson for Ukrainian troopsZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine, Oct 3 - More than half a century after gangrene claimed his legs up to his hips and all of his fingers, Hryhoriy Yanchenko joined the Ukrainian resistance toNow 75, he put on the blue-striped jersey and sky-blue beret of the Soviet paratroop unit in which he served and drove his electric mobility cart through the occupied southern city of Kherson collecting donations.
"I would start on my street," Yanchenko told Reuters at the office of the Zaporizhzhia aid group that has cared for him since he fled Kherson. "You go out, but you don't know if you are returning home." Galena Goncharenko, a founder of the Soldiers Shelter aid group in Zaporizhzhia who has cooperated with Yanchenko since 2015, said he had called her in March to ask if he could send her the donations from Kherson.
A Russian soldier found a problem with the driver's documents and with a red marker wrote "Back home" on the windscreen.
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