Editor’s Note: The following is the English-language transcript of Hromadske Radio’s “Ukraine Calling” program on Sept. 22, interviewing Ukrainian Volunteer fighter Pavlo Mamontov about how he went from the EuroMaidan to the Donbas war zone, university and now Toronto for the Invictus Games.
Hello and welcome to this week’s Ukraine Calling programme. I’m Oksana Smerechuk for Hromadske Radio in Kyiv, bringing you a roundup of the weekly news, culture, and some music. Later in the show we’ll bring you a feature interview with a real warrior, Pavlo Mamontov. He fought in a volunteer battalion in eastern Ukraine and is heading out to compete in the Invictus Games in Toronto, where President Poroshenko will be in attendance. It’s a Paralympic-type sporting event for war veterans. But first, as always, the news.
