A group of Ukrainian military veterans wounded in the war with Russia brought their stories from the front lines to San Diego County, this weekend.
The veterans visited St. Mary Protectress, the only local Ukrainian Orthodox church where they were welcomed by the Spring Valley congregation before Sunday service.
Among them were Mykola Melnyk, Oleh Bonchynskyi and Denys Haida, Ukrainian soldiers wounded by enemy weapons in the years since the February 2022 Russian invasion…