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Paul Hughes's organization Helping Ukraine Grassroots Support (HUGS) has provided food and supplies, fixed military trucks, delivered musical instruments to students and recovered the body of a Canadian soldier who fought alongside Ukrainian troops.
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/Lisa RobertsSLAVYANSK, Ukraine—It was the heavy metal scene that first drew former rockstar Lisa Roberts to Ukraine.She’d rubbed shoulders with the West Coast grunge icons of the ’90s as a founding member of the band Hole with Courtney Love, and she’s stayed plugged into the music world ever since.“I had a lot of friends here in the metal community before the war. In Ukraine, they’re big on it, on heavy metal. I had friends all over, an
Lisa Roberts, a founding member of Hole alongside Courtney Love, moved to Ukraine to work for an NGO delivering aid to besieged villages in Donbas.
Canadian Anthony Ihnat was killed in Ukraine on Saturday when, according to officials, the vehicle he was driving took a direct hit from a Russian anti-tank missile. CTV National News reporter Adrian Ghobrial spoke with Ihnat back in February about his choice to leave home and help in Ukraine. He remembers that interview here in this reporter's notebook.
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Anthony Ihnat had spent months near the front lines on the edge of the war’s most brutal fighting in eastern Ukraine where he helped to deliver aid and rescue civilians