Six women from Ukraine visited the Washington area last March for a week-long program sponsored by Rotary and the U.S. Congressional Office for International Leadership. The women represented nonprofit organizations that aid their communities, especially those Ukrainians displaced by the ...
Over the past 20 years I have come to know many Ukrainians: friends I made during my visits to their country; journalists and professionals visiting the United States I helped to host; and the refugees I have been teaching as a volunteer tutor of English as a Second Language. I share with them ...
One evening last week, Aina Kyrpychova’s cellphone began blaring a warning of incoming Russian missiles. She quickly began scrolling through an application that Ukrainians use to learn where rockets and drones have hit. Just a few days earlier, a missile strike had killed 11 people just 700 ...
“Most of us will not go back to our native towns and villages, because they have been destroyed,” according to Aina Kyrpychova, speaking through an interpreter. “It is very hard to move somewhere and start over from scratch.” Kyrpychova made this observation Tuesday when she talked ...
Church bells around the world will toll in unison Sunday to mark the third anniversary of the Ukraine-Russia war. Among those church bells chiming: the bells of St. Peter and St. Paul Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Carnegie. “At 8:59 on Sunday evening, we were instructed to ring our bells, ...
Vadym Korobenko was a television sports reporter in Ukraine until he joined the Ukrainian National Guard in 2014 after Russia’s first invasion of Ukraine. Korobenko fought in and around the southern Ukrainian city of Mariupol. A decade later, Korobenko, 39, and a retired lieutenant, is ...
