Despite the government shutdown, it looks like the 50th Marine Corps Marathon will take place this weekend. Among the estimated 40,000 people registered for the 26.2-mile course are a group of six wounded, active-duty Ukrainian soldiers on a mission. Led by Major General (retired) Volodymyr Havrylov, a former Deputy Minister of Defense in Ukraine, the men will run in honor of fellow soldiers back home—and to raise money for the cause.

Havrylov has been organizing small groups of Ukrainian service members to run in the Marine Corps Marathon since 2016. After conflict between Ukraine and Russia began in 2014, he visited severely wounded Ukrainian soldiers at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, where they were receiving prosthetics and rehabilitation . The men had completed the

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