Ukrainians recently celebrated the 75th birthday of the Japanese man who earlier this year opened a free cafe for those in need in the city of Kharkiv amid the Russian invasion. Background: Fuminori Tsuchiko was visiting Ukraine as a tourist in February 2022 when Russian forces broke into the country. Tsuchiko spent the next seven months underground, living with Ukrainians in subway stations and helping distribute food for them.
Fuminori took shelter in the Polish capital Warsaw after the Russian invasion but returned two months later with the intention of doing everything in his capacity to help the war-torn civilians.
KHARKIV, Ukraine When Fuminori Tsuchiko arrived in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv last year, he said he wanted to do anything he could to help people following Russia's invasion. Moved by the plight of residents forced by Russian shelling to shelter in subway stations, the 75-year-old Japanese national from Tokyo decided to stay. For months, he said, he.