Cole Zelenco, a St. Catharines, Ont., resident killed last week by Russian artillery fire, was “effervescent” and “hard-charging,” and a “total professional” on the battlefield, says a fellow Canadian who met the 21-year-old in Ukraine’s International Legion.
Walter Wood, a Canadian Armed Forces officer who spent time fighting in Ukraine last year, told CBC Radio’s The Current that Zelenco “always had a good sense of humour” and “was one of the better soldiers we had over there when I was there.
“I’ve had my friends that are still over there fighting contact me and they’re devastated by the loss,” said Wood, a Canadian military veteran
