{"id":615318,"date":"2026-04-19T22:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T22:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/615318\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T22:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T22:37:10","slug":"missing-ukrainian-man-found-dead-searchers-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/615318\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing Ukrainian man found dead, searchers say"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A Ukrainian man who went missing in Winnipeg this winter was found dead this weekend, searchers say.<\/p>\n

Anatolii Ishchenko’s remains were found in the Red River around St. Boniface, Oksana Burchak, who helped organize search parties<\/a> looking for the 30-year-old earlier this month, said Sunday.<\/p>\n

Ishchenko was last seen on Jan. 22 on Pembina Highway, between Markham Road and Bison Drive, police previously said.<\/p>\n

Dennis Mashevsky, Ishchenko’s cousin, flew in from California to help the searchers. Mashevsky said his cousin was a shy man, but that he was likeable and always left a good impression.<\/p>\n

“He was a family-oriented individual,” Mashevsky said Sunday. “He worked hard. He had two jobs here.\u2026 He did what he could to survive this.”<\/p>\n

Burchak \u2014 who said she’s representing Ishchenko’s immediate family, all of whom still live in Ukraine \u2014 said she got a call from the medical examiner’s office confirming the body’s identity on Sunday.<\/p>\n

She’d previously said the 30-year-old had been seeking treatment for panic attacks at the Victoria Hospital the day he’d last been seen.<\/p>\n

The 30-year-old went to the University of Manitoba later that day, where he tried to charge his phone, Burchak said Sunday.<\/p>\n

Mashevsky said Ukrainians that have been displaced because of the war have been dealt a difficult hand, and that his cousin was given “a heavy load to bear.”<\/p>\n

“Just being welcomed by the Ukrainian community here has been touching in a way that’s very difficult to explain,” he said. <\/p>\n

“We’re lucky we got closure and we wish the same for other missing people. It does take the community.”<\/p>\n

Police said they had no updates to provide Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-615318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}