The Ukrainians gathered outside the Kelowna City Council on Monday, as they did three years ago.
Maksym Maksvchuk, 17, recalled the day he was in military training when Russia launched a large -scale attack against Ukraine in February 2022.
“We were hidden in a great basement and we listened to the rockets to leave, maybe the next in the next streets,” Maksvchuk said.
Since then, he, like the more than 8 million from other Ukrainians, have fled from his home.
“When you hear that his house is no longer there, people lose everything, they completely begin their life here. They are very happy to have their children, ”said Kelowna Stand with the vice president of Ukraine, Denys Storozhuk.
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Last week, the president of the United States, Donald Trump, met with Russian leaders, closing Ukraine.
The meeting occurred when Trump falsely blamed Ukraine for starting the war.
“Today I heard: 'Oh, we were not invited,' Well, you've been there for three years, you should have finished it, you should never have started it, you should have made a deal,” Trump said, “Trump said.
Meanwhile, on Monday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau doubled Canadian support, promising $ 5 billion in help to Ukraine.
“We must do everything in our power to allow Ukraine to ensure a fair and lasting peace, a peace that cannot be achieved without Ukrainians on the table,” Trudeau said.
Back in Kelowna, refugees care as a deadline for renewal of imminent visa threat with sending many back to Ukraine.
In a statement, the Ministry of Immigration, refugees and citizenship of Canada said: “The IRCC is aware of the difficulty and delays that Ukrainian clients are experiencing with respect to the renewal of their passports, the questions about these delays can go to Ukrainian consulate “.
But delays put Maksvchuk at risk of being sent back to Ukraine, which means fighting near the front line.
“I'll be with my father, so something good about that,” he said.
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