A family is looking for answers as a Ukrainian refugee who had been reported missing in January was found dead late Saturday night on a riverbank in Winnipeg\u2019s Norwood neighbourhood.<\/p>\n
Anatolii Ishchenko came to Canada in the summer of 2022, fleeing from the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Then, on January 22 this year, he vanished.<\/p>\n
Oksana Burchak was coordinating the search efforts and knew Ishchenko before his disappearance. She says, just before Ishchenko went missing, he was terminated from his job.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor him, work was one of the pillars. So that\u2019s why it was a huge pain for him,\u201d said Burchak.<\/p>\n
According to Burchak, Ishchenko was seeking medical help and was admitted to Victoria Hospital on the day he went missing.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was having panic attacks. He needed help, and he realised he needed help,\u201d said Burchak.<\/p>\n
Ishchenko left the hospital around noon and was last seen at 4 p.m. on Pembina Highway. His body was found on the riverbank this Saturday, almost three months later.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe water started rising, and the river took him to where he was found,\u201d said Burchak.<\/p>\n
Dennis Mashevsky, Anatolii Ishchenko\u2019s cousin, came to Winnipeg from the U.S. to join the search team, only to get the news that his cousin\u2019s body had been located.<\/p>\n
\u201cI found out that my cousin was found in the river yesterday. I am very grateful that we found him,\u201d said Mashevsky.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe seeked help, he took medical advice, he took care of his physical health, and he did what he could to survive this.\u201d<\/p>\n
CityNews reached out to Winnipeg police on Sunday morning, but was told the police had no information to provide at the time.<\/p>\n
Ishchenko\u2019s family and friends are still searching for answers about the cause of his death, as they are expecting more information from the medical examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A family is looking for answers as a Ukrainian refugee who had been reported missing in January was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-615746","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\/615746","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=615746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}