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A professor who took up guns for Ukraine

Headlines Today | 27/05/2022 04:13 PM | Click to read full article

The day Russia invaded his homeland, a sociology professor took up the gun to defend Ukraine. Every night, he is on combat duty near Izium. Every Monday and Tuesday, around 8am, Fedir Shandor joins a video call with a stack of notes.

He has been teaching at Ukraine’s Uzhhorod National University for 27 years. A war shouldn’t disrupt that so, he still holds classes with his 50-odd students for nearly five hours.

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