Canadian soldier explains why he’s returning to Ukraine’s eastern trenches
Ukraine.“I actually never had to explain it to them. My brother, when I told him — I was on a phone call with him and my sister — and he said something to the effect of ‘I can’t believe you’re not there already,'” the 40-year-old Toronto native says, speaking with Global News while on leave in London, England.“I never really had to give anyone a reason, and all the reasons I gave my wife, she accepted but was still upset about.”The last deployment of his 15 years with Canada’s military was as part of a task force in Europe helping Ukraine deal with Russia‘s full-scale invasion in 2022.But that support role wasn’t enough for Smith, who headed to Ukraine after resigning in March 2023.“You can’t wait for someone to go tell you to defend freedom anymore.
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