Club Luncheon: Eyewitness Ukraine
Wed, 30 Nov
|Adelaide
Maurice O’Connell has just returned from five months in Odesa, Ukraine. There he teamed up with a group of Ukrainians helping Ukrainians.


Time & Location
30 Nov 2022, 12:00 pm – 2:30 pm
Adelaide, 111 Hutt St, Adelaide SA 5000, Australia
About the event
Maurice O’Connell has just returned from five months in Odesa, Ukraine. There he teamed up with a group of Ukrainians
helping Ukrainians. The central humanitarian hub was run out of a former university building and provided 200 welfare
aid packs to refugees daily. Considered by many to be a “front line city” it was largely bereft of foreign volunteers.
Maurice also regularly went to front line villages to deliver aid. Maurice’s mission was humanitarian but he took a keen
interest from a military perspective having served in the British Army. Maurice’s talk will cover his humanitarian
activities as a self-funded volunteer but will also focus on his reflections of a country at war, the Ukrainian people and