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Japanese man becomes a local hero in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv / 339T9PM
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Fuminori Tsukiko, a 75-year-old from Japan, was travelling around Poland when Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24 2022. He decided to go to Kyiv, and then Kharkiv, where residents had resorted to living in subway stations to hide from Russian strikes. Fuminori himself lived in the Kharkiv subway for several months, cooking breakfast for others and collecting donations through social media to buy food and toys for children. Although Kharkiv has grown safer in recent months, and its residents aren't forced to live underground, the Japanese man decided to stay and help, rather than returning to his home country. "I like Ukraine, I love Kharkiv" says Tsukiko, helping to hand out groceries to locals, "Kyiv will rebuild". "He was sleeping next to us" explains Zoya Reshetnyak, a Kharkiv resident, "he delved into our lives, lived through everything with us." IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES