US Edition‘Just shoot me’: Calgarian fighting in Ukraine in painful recovery after drone attack
Mac Hughes, who joined Ukraine's military after humanitarian work, is recovering from third-degree burns sustained in a Russian drone attack on Canada Day, undergoing physical and mental rehabilitation.
- Calgary native Mac Hughes was severely wounded by a Russian Shahed drone earlier this year, suffering third-degree burns on just under 30 per cent of his body.
- Hughes first went to Ukraine to do humanitarian work with his father Paul Hughes, a Canadian military veteran, before joining the Ukrainian military after losing a close friend.
- A drone strike in the Zaporizhzhia region severely injured Hughes, who was trapped by wreckage ignited by diesel fuel during the attack.
- Medical teams transferred Hughes to Lviv for skin graft surgery using strips from his upper thighs, and he is now in rehabilitation in Kyiv expecting months of recovery before walking normally.
- Community supporters in Kyiv held a fundraiser to assist Hughes's family, his maple-leaf/Ukrainian-trident tattoo survived the blast, and at least 11 Canadians have died since Russia's full-scale invasion.
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'Just shoot me': Calgarian fighting in Ukraine in painful recovery after drone attack
KYIV — A 23-year-old Calgary man who has been fighting for Ukraine faces a painful recovery after receiving burns to nearly 30 per cent of his body in a Russian drone strike on Canada Day. Mac Hughes initially joined his father Paul in doing volunteer work in the war-torn nation but joined the Armed Forces […]
KIEV — A 23-year-old Calgarian, fighting for Ukraine, is experiencing a difficult recovery after being burned on nearly 30% of his body during a Russian drone strike on Canada Day. Mac Hughes had first joined his father Paul to volunteer in this war-torn country, but he enlisted in the Ukrainian armed forces after the death of a close friend in combat. Sitting in a wheelchair near the clinical hospital in Kyiv City where he is receiving treatmen…
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