The family of an American military veteran from Chicago is remembering his legacy after he was killed this month while fighting with the Ukrainian Army.
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“I can't really disclose all the details, but he was in the Eastern part of Ukraine,” she told NBC Chicago. “I talked to his commander and according to him, my brother's positions were shelled by the Russian artillery and my brother, two of his comrades were wounded and he managed to pull them away to safer positions in the back and he didn't stay with them. He decided to go back to the positions at the front and help the rest of his comrades. And that's where he was killed,” Podolny said.Myhailo worked as an electrical engineer in Chicago.
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