'The people of Ukraine will never give in' - Plumber returns to Cork from the war

A 23-year-old plumber living in Cork tells Eimer McAuley about his return to Ukraine to help his country

Pavlo Serdiuk: “My sister hasn’t gone back to school since the beginning of the pandemic. She is only nine, so she doesn’t really understand the war."

"You get used to living with war," a 23-year-old plumber said, after going from Cork to Ukraine and back again since Russia invaded his homeland. 

On February 24, Pavlo Serdiuk discovered Russia had invaded his home country after he woke to the sound of his father screaming down the phone at 4am. "At first, I didn’t believe him, I was in shock," the Cork-based plumber recalled.