MONTREAL — The mother of Quebec man who was killed last month in Ukraine fighting Russian forces told a memorial service Friday that her son’s “courage and big heart” made him a hero.
Marie−France Sirois told a service in Montreal her son Émile−Antoine Roy−Sirois and three other foreign volunteer soldiers died together under bombardment in Ukraine’s Donbas region on July 18.
“They died as heroes, in supporting each other to the end and sharing the same convictions,” Sirois told the crowd gathered at the Ukrainian Parish of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Montreal.
“The willingness to protect women and children and denounce injustice were part of my son’s DNA, I’m not the first to say it.”…