Ukrainians remain unbowed, not the first time they have fended off a foe

Since February 2014, the trespassers have been the Russians, whose army seized Crimea then attacked in eastern Ukraine, occupying much of the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts. To this day, they threaten the peace of Europe.
Lubomyr Lukiuk, left, pictured July 15, 2017, with Col. Igor Slisarchuk holding a copy of A Canadian, and Lieut.-Gen. Paul Wynnyk.
ON THE DONBAS FRONTLINE, UKRAINE—Looking out and down from the inside a Ukrainian Armed Forces Mil Mi-8 helicopter, I surveyed Ukraine as I have never done before—marvelling at that country’s measureless tracts of sunflowers and wheat fields nourished by the fertility of its Chernozem soil—u...

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