Brian Holowaychuk News Today

The Torque Masters Car Club based in Sidney has donated two cars to Ukrainians living at Ukrainian Safe Haven in East Sooke.

Ukrainian refugees living on Vancouver Island spent Remembrance Day reflecting on those lost, and those still living, in their home country.

At the end of June, a community group from Langford partnered with the Canadian non-profit GlobalMedic. The group travelled to the city of Lutsk in western Ukraine to find a way to help. Now, the group is continuing the partnership as Ukraines army works to liberate the countrys southern regions.

Petro Yankovskyi and his family are starting their new life in Canada, seeking safety after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. But unlike most Ukrainian refugees, the Yankovskyis had fled their home in Russia, not Ukraine.

For children at the Ukrainian Safe Haven in East Sooke, B.C., Monday was a day to just be a kid and put the last six months behind them.

The Grouse Nest first had tools worth more than $2,000 stolen from a shop on May 15. Then someone broke into the tool shed. A week later, the copper wiring went missing, along with a wheelbarrow.

Thieves have pillaged a former resort property in East Sooke, B.C., that was converted into a home for Ukrainian refugees.

The first of whats estimated to be around 100 refugees from Ukraine have arrived at their new home at a former resort in Sooke, B.C.

A team of workers, many of them volunteers, are putting the finishing touches on a new home for 100 Ukrainian refugees at a former resort in East Sooke, B.C.

Owners of a decades-old resort in East Sooke, B.C., are renovating the property in order to house up to 100 Ukrainian refugees.