A Guelph, Ont. soccer player who made headlines in February for enlisting in the Ukrainian army is back in Canada.
On Thursday, Guelph United FC announced Svyatik Artemenko had safely returned to Guelph after a two month tour of duty in Ukraine.
In February, having signed to a professional soccer team in Western Ukraine, Artemenko landed in the country just days before the Russian invasion. “When I called my parents back they said ‘Did you see that Russia declared war?’ And that’s when I was like ‘Yeah mom, dad I’m not coming back.’”“I said to myself if anything happens like that ever again and I’m of age, I will be there helping,” he said.
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