Peter Fouché RIP | Destined to be a Powerful Advocate For Ukraine

Briton With Ukraine In His Heart – Peter Fouché

He travels with a British passport, but he’s Ukrainian by heart. Peter is a former policeman and a carpenter. His love for his daughter led him to a foreign country, to fight for a foreign war, which would later become deeply personal.
Olga Butko’s YouTube video description.

Two months before combat medic Peter Fouché fell on a frontline in Ukraine, Olga Butko, a TV presenter from Ukraine’s Rada TV Station, crafted a powerful TV interview with Peter. Olga was a friend of Peter’s and, like us, was not to know the tragedy that would befall him so soon. Peter had described Olga as his Ukrainian sister.

Depicting Peter Fouché, known for making heart gestures. — Depicting Peter Fouché, known for making heart gestures during livestreams.

Olga Tracks Peter’s Journey From The UK to Ukraine

In the interview on a frontline in Eastern Ukraine, Peter recounts the feelings that had compelled him to leave his family in the UK.

Russian Invaders were murdering children. I’m a father and I have a 15-year-old daughter. Her name is Nikola. My love for my child ignited a volcano inside me and also my instinct as a policeman to want to protect other innocent people.

Watch footage in the video of Peter at work as a combat medic on the frontlines of Ukraine. Listen as he recounts the saving of lives, perhaps two hundred lives saved, Peter estimates.

See photographs of Peter’s family life in the UK. Photographs that feature his daughter (who is now 15 years old) and his sister.

Watch as Olga meets Peter’s mother. Rose, at 87 years old, had travelled to Ukraine to visit her son on a frontline. Rose looks upon war-ravaged buildings in dismay as the car journeys ever closer to the frontline.

Experience the emotion of reunion when Rose finally meets Peter at his post, close to the war zone.

Olga says “Peter knows how critical the situation is and he simply turns to the camera as if he wants to shout at those who made decisions.”:

…give [weapons] to us, we are Ukraine, we are a peaceful Sovereign Nation and we are being written off the face of the Earth while you guys sit back and argue. Hear me out now Ukraine will win this war… if you are silent in the face of injustice you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

Olga asks Peter Fouché “How long are you are planning to stay here in Ukraine?”

I’ll never leave. Ukraine is my home. I cannot wait for the day that I will get a Ukrainian passport and citizenship but I will never leave this place.

In the end, Peter did gain his wish of never leaving Ukraine. Peter’s ashes will be divided into three parts. At the request of Peter’s fiancé Halyna, part of his ashes are to be scattered on Hero Hill in Kyiv. Peter’s mother Rose has asked that the another part be spread in the Donetsk area, close to where Peter had fallen. Peter’s brother and sister, Paul and Sally, will fly to Warsaw, where Greg Terry will hand over the other part of the ashes. Peter and Halyna had asked that Pastor Greg Terry marry them. Source: Greg Terry. Peter Fouche Celebration of Life Update LIVE Kyiv, Ukraine.

Peter’s Memory Will Be A Powerful Advocate for Ukraine

My feeling is that Peter had realised that his unique position as a now famous English-speaking medic in Ukraine was elevating him into a position of being able to advocate for Ukraine on the world stage.