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Letter from Kiev

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 ...

OP-ED: Our Ukrainian friends need and deserve our support

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 ...

Ukrainians hosted by Washington Rotary talk about devastation in their country

“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 ...