 Two volunteers from Canada killed in fights for Bakhmut. Canadian citizens, 27-year-old Kyle Porter and 21-year-old Cole Zelenko, were killed in the battles near Bakhmut on April 26. Kyle Porter, a resident of Calgary, and Cole Zelenko from St. Catharines have served in the Ukraine's international legion. Canadian CBC News wrote that the Canadian volunteers were killed by artillery fire on April 26, while participating in a combat operation with a group of Ukrainian troops to maintain a key supply route to Bakhmut. Porter, Zelenko and at least three other Ukrainian soldiers sought shelter in a reinforced bunker, but the bunker took a direct hit. All were killed, soldiers' commander told. It was noted that Porter and Zelenko previously served in the Canadian Armed Forces and retired before coming to Ukraine. Zelenko's body was found and brought to Kharkiv, and Porter's body is still being sought. The men, who'd become close friends, were fighting to keep open a land corridor for Ukrainian forces defending the last parts of the eastern Ukrainian city they still hold after nine months of intense Russian assaults. The two deaths are believed to be the fourth and fifth Canadian volunteer soldiers killed in action during the 14-month war. Both men were Canadian military veterans, while Porter had also worked recently with South African forces and on a training mission in the Netherlands.