{"id":387084,"date":"2025-08-31T12:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T12:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/387084\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T12:01:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T12:01:08","slug":"the-three-teenagers-walking-from-uk-to-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/387084\/","title":{"rendered":"The three teenagers walking from UK to Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Three teenage friends have almost finished walking from the UK to Ukraine after covering more than 1,000 miles (1,609 km).<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">James McCarthy-Hill, Kyle Spring and Adam Mitchell &#8211; all 18 years old &#8211; are approaching the Polish\u2013Ukrainian border after setting off from Salisbury Cathedral in Wiltshire on 29 June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When they reach Lviv in western Ukraine, the group intend to spend the nearly-\u00a315,000 which they have fundraised through the walk on food and cleaning products, before delivering the aid across three Ukrainian cities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Mitchell said the walking was &#8220;so painful&#8221; but the real fight was in his head, adding &#8220;you just have to get past it and know you are doing it for the right reasons&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three teenage friends have almost finished walking from the UK to Ukraine after covering more than 1,000 miles&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[2000,299,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-387084","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115123276090047213","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}