Father Mykhailo Ozorovych, the pastor of the Holy Eucharist Cathedral in New Westminster, was not worried about his family in Ukraine a few weeks ago when Russia was building up its forces in the region, because they lived far from the conflict zone.
Then, a bomb hit the Ivano-Frankivsk airport Thursday morning, less than five kilometres from where Ozorovych’s parents live.
“I thought my city is so far from where Russia is and from the border, and now just a couple of weeks later I was wrong. The invasion did happen,” Ozorovych said in an interview with Stephen Quinn on CBC’s The Early Edition.
Ozorovych is one of a number of Ukrainian-Canadians living in B.C. who are worried about relatives living in Ukraine, following the Russian invasion.