Canadian Quebec Media reported on July 24: Marie-France Sirois, the mother of a Canadian from the original person who went to Ukraine, has not received a call from her son for several days, nor has she heard any news about her son.
When she suddenly received a call from her son’s army friend, her first intuition was: “Everything is over.”
According to his friend, Adriel Martinez, an American volunteer in Ukraine, her son, 31-year-old Émile-Antoine Roy-Sirois, died on July 18.
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Roy-Sirois left Montreal in March and rushed to Ukraine as a volunteer soldier to provide support to the Ukrainian army. Marie-France has repeatedly begged his son to go home in the past few months, but he did not expect that this would end up like this.
Marie-France now only hopes that someone can bring her son's body back to Montreal, Canada, which may be difficult, that is his hometown...
She said: "He is smart and kind... People will fall in love with him at the first sight of him, and I will miss everything about him for the rest of my life."
She also said that she has been in contact with the Canadian Embassy in Ukraine. The Ukrainian army should be able to handle Roy-Sirois' funeral and take his body home.
Today, Marilyne Guèvremont, spokesman for the Canadian Ministry of Global Affairs, said the department was aware of the death of a Canadian in Ukraine, but did not identify Roy-Sirois.
The spokesperson said: "Consular officials are contacting their families and providing consular assistance," she said in an email to CBC News. "For privacy reasons, no more information can be disclosed."
Although no official statement was issued, Marie-France said he was very convinced that "the son was killed."
Marie-France introduced that his son Roy-Sirois was a student of University of Montreal and HEC Montréal, and was closely following international politics. Before going to Ukraine, he worked as a firefighter in Canada and worked as a customer service company.
She said: "He is very interested in many things and is a persistent person."
In March this year, her son told her that she wanted to go to Ukraine to protect children and fight the "crazy leader." Marie-France tried to persuade him not to go, but failed.
htmlOn December 27, Roy-Sirois set off. He first stayed in Polish for 10 days, where he helped deliver medicines, and soon after, he joined a "foreign legion".
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When my son went to Ukraine, the mother and son were on the phone almost every day. Every time he talks, Marie-France tries his best to persuade his son to go home.
"I really don't want to lose my child, I beg him to come back, help through other ways, or do something else, but he is unwilling to change his mind."
htmlOn May 20, he spent his 31st birthday in the Donbas area of Ukraine, when it was bombed and a fierce battle took place.
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Roy-Sirois told his mother that he was afraid, but fear would not scare him away and keep him away from war.
Marie-France said: "He firmly believed that he could do something, and he believed that he had no other way to help Ukraine."
She added: "Now I'm completely destroyed."
Wali, known as a sharpshooter, safely returned to her home in Quebec in May. In an interview with the famous local French-language TV station LaPresse, she said that the management of the foreign volunteer army in Ukraine is chaotic and lacks weapons.
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