Ukrainian credo comes with a price

In July, I was allowed to follow members of an elite Ukrainian military intelligence unit to the front lines.

Lubomyr Luciuk is a professor of political geography at The Royal Military College of Canada, in Kingston, Ont., travelled to Ukraine in July 2017, first visiting Canadian troops who were training Ukrainian soldiers in western Ukraine before going on to the front lines in Donetsk and Luhansk as a private citizen.The Hill Times photograph by Lubomyr Lukiuk

Opinion

BY LUBOMYR LUCIUK

October 2, 2017

DONETSK REGION, UKRAINE—I’m not as good a runner as I used to be. This came somewhere between the ninth and first floors of a murky, bomb-ravaged building at the edge of no-man’s land in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine. I began scrambling downstairs after our sentinel yelled “Run!” ...

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