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Vancouver Islander to detail his humanitarian travels to Ukraine amid war

Darrell McKay tells his story on Feb. 13 at Comox Community Centre

By Eugene Hrushowy

Special to the Record

One Comox man has taken it upon himself to make a difference in Ukraine.

While many Canadians what the war unfold on television, real people are still being maimed and are still losing their homes, their livelihoods if not their lives, as the Russian invasion of Ukraine enters its third year.

Darrell McKay, a retired North Island photographer and videographer living in Comox - formerly in Campbell River – was exposed to the first Russian illegal invasion which was the Crimea, when touring with a buddy, the Ukrainian cities of Chernobyl, Kyiv and Odessa in 2016.

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