Ukrainian 'Granddad' Defending Ancestral Cossack Homeland
A 63-year-old Ukrainian soldier with the call sign "Granddad" is fighting to defend his ancestral Cossack homeland in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhya region.
Originally published at - https://www.rferl.org/a/ukrainian-gra...
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