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"title": "Hope for Older Refugees of War: A Bay Area Resident's Mission to Save Older Adults in Ukraine",
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"headTitle": "Hope for Older Refugees of War: A Bay Area Resident’s Mission to Save Older Adults in Ukraine | KQED",
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"content": "\u003cp>Maria Galbo wandered amid the decaying walls of a Soviet-era apartment in Chernivtsi, Ukraine. She stepped into the living room and pulled open the door to the terrace. Warm, humid air poured in. The piercing call of an air raid siren invaded the room, reverberating through the entire aging structure. This was the second apartment she’d been to that morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11936559\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11936559 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A youngish white woman with short, unkempt, light pink hair sits in the backseat of a car, the knuckles of her left hand holding her chin, looking out the window with a serious look on her face.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maria Galbo, a resident of Albany, started an organization that works to re-home older refugees from Ukraine’s dangerous eastern regions. The organization, Under a Kind Roof, visits shelters in western Ukraine to create profiles of refugees in need of permanent shelter, and then finds, negotiates and leases homes for them. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Maria Galbo, founder, Under a Kind Roof\"]‘My friend’s mom died through this ordeal. She had dementia, and she was in Bucha when they had this horrible situation. The doctors and nurses only took people who could walk, and those who couldn’t move remained there. By the time transportation came, they were already hungry and neglected.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later, she visited a shelter where refugees from the Russian invasion to the east were staying. Disabled older adults cried as they shared their stories with her, many having spent the last six months moving from shelter to shelter, living off donated groceries and crowded into churches, gymnasiums and schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Galbo listened to their stories and copied their information into a spreadsheet on her laptop. She spent the next week traveling all over the city to find permanent housing for them before the looming winter swept the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Galbo isn’t from Ukraine. She moved to the U.S. from Russia in 2001, and has been living in the Bay Area for nine years. She traveled to Ukraine from her home in Albany, temporarily leaving behind her family and her tech job to provide relief to refugees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11936560\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11936560 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Two dogs stand on the hard-packed dirt in front of a blue-green, two-story building with a peaked roof and gable. Four cars and vans are parked around the building, under a gray sky.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/2-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/2-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/2-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two dogs roam a property for lease in Chernivtsi, Ukraine. The owner runs a car lot on the property, and the buildings are in poor condition. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“My friend’s mom died through this ordeal. She had dementia, and she was in Bucha when they had this horrible situation,” Galbo recalled. “The doctors and nurses only took people who could walk, and those who couldn’t move remained there. By the time transportation came, they were already hungry and neglected.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She tag-teams with her husband, Yevgeniy Sverdlik, so someone is always home to support their two children. As of December, Galbo and Sverdlik have made a combined seven trips to Ukraine to volunteer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11936561\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11936561 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/3-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A group of four mostly young-looking adults stand along the wooden banister in the upstairs area of a home, with bright light coming through tall windows dressed in gauzy curtains.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/3-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/3-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/3-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/3-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stanislav Shoupletsov (left) and Maria Galbo (right) discuss rental terms for a potential property with Elena Akopova (center left) and Anna Gnatiuk (center right). The home has water damage and mold, and the owner is boisterous and rude. Galbo and her team decide not to lease the home. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Galbo’s first trip was back in March of 2022, right after the start of the Russian invasion, and she worked with volunteer organizations to provide financial aid to refugees fleeing across the Polish border. However, after evacuations at the border died down, Galbo realized that those in direst need were the older refugees still in the country. [aside tag=\"ukraine\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]That summer, Galbo started her own organization, \u003ca href=\"https://www.underakindroof.com/\">Under a Kind Roof\u003c/a>. She began raising money in the Bay Area and abroad to provide financial help to neglected older adults in Ukraine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was so painful for all of us to watch the elderly people suffer, those who don’t have relatives to help them,” Galbo said. “So we decided, let’s try to help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Galbo created a survey and distributed it among shelters in Chernivtsi and Ivano-Frankivsk. With the responses, she created a spreadsheet of refugees’ information. Then she created a priority list to match refugees with available housing. Every month or so, she travels to Ukraine and links up with a team of volunteers who work to find available housing in cities like Chernivtsi, which have high volumes of older refugees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11936563\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11936563 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/7-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A woman with short, light pink hair, wearing a denim dress and holding a long, olive-colored backpack, walks toward a 10-story apartment building with a facade of white, peach, and brick.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/7-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/7-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/7-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/7-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/7-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/7-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/7-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Galbo approaches a Soviet-era apartment complex, where a unit has become available for lease. Soviet-style apartments like this one can prove difficult for older refugees with mobility issues, and leasing these types of apartments can come down to them having a reliable elevator. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But finding housing is challenging. Accommodation is already in short supply, and the infrastructure in many Ukrainian towns suffers from decay and neglect. To protect older adults from poor living conditions, Galbo and her team personally visit available apartments. Potential homes are often disqualified for water damage, mold and even landlords with apparent substance use issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, safe shelters do appear. Galbo’s team makes sure a potential candidate is a good fit, then shows them the space and leases it for three to six months on their behalf. This can be lifesaving for older adults: An insulated shelter and a warm bed can be the difference between life and death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11936564\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11936564 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/8-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A woman stands framed in a doorway, which with adjacent windows frames and the wall are in shadow, to a terrace outside an apartment building.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/8-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/8-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/8-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/8-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/8-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/8-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/8-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Galbo inspects the balcony of a Soviet-era apartment in Chernivtsi while air raid sirens cry outside. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Giving them a home is giving them hope,” Galbo said. “We see that they start building little homes and getting attached to the new places.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Galbo completed her second trip under her new organization in October, and has been back in the Bay Area preparing for her next trip. The Russian and Ukrainian community in the Bay Area has been a keystone of the fundraising efforts, with volunteer bakers providing thousands of dollars worth of pastries for bake sales in San Francisco, raising over $10,000 for Under a Kind Roof.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11936565\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11936565 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/12-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A long room filled with makeshift beds and cots, with personal belongings scattered about.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/12-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/12-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/12-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/12-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/12-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/12-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/12-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A school hall that has been turned into a shelter for older refugees. Summer break is about to end, and these residents are being asked to relocate. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Galbo plans to continue growing \u003ca href=\"https://www.underakindroof.com/\">Under a Kind Roof\u003c/a> by expanding volunteer opportunities and financial aid. With the help of her husband and her team, she is working tirelessly to continue providing support to the nearly 40 people in her program while continuing to enroll new participants as the war continues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want everybody to just constantly mind that the war is still on right now, more than ever. It’s wintertime. It’s blackouts,” she said. “People have no electricity, no heat, there’s bombings, and there’s no housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11936566\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11936566 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/13-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A youngish white man with very short brown hair, wearing a white T-shirt and shorts with the strap of a black bag across his chest, sits on a cot next to an older white woman, with short, brown hair, who wears a short-sleeved navy blue blouse and jeans. He appears to be listening intently, leaning toward her, as she rests her near hand on the bed between them, her other hand between her knees, gazing beyond him to speak.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/13-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/13-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/13-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/13-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/13-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/13-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/13-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stanislav Shoupletsov (left) listens to Tatyana Gubchenko, 66, as she becomes emotional discussing how she came to be in a shelter. Stanislav joined Under a Kind Roof after losing his close friend, an older neighbor. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11936567\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11936567 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/14-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"An older woman wearing a white, scoop-neck T-shirt, jeans, and white shoes, sits atop a peach-colored coverlet, the top of a desk looming above two pillows, in front of a row of wooden lockers.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/14-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/14-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/14-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/14-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/14-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/14-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/14-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Liudmyla Ivashchenko, 64, sits on her cot at a school-turned-shelter for refugees. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11936568\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11936568 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/15-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A group of elderly people line up in front of a woman with a laptop.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/15-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/15-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/15-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/15-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/15-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/15-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/15-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Older refugees line up to offer their stories and details to Galbo so she can create profiles and her organization can try to find them more permanent shelter. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11936569\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11936569 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/20-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"An elderly woman stands in the doorway of a pink room.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/20-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/20-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/20-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/20-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/20-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/20-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/20-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Liudmyla Ivashchenko, 64, is the first candidate to view this newly leased apartment. She likes it, but insists she wants her own room after having no privacy for several months. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11936570\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11936570 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/22-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A group of women behind a table of baked goods.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/22-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/22-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/22-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/22-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/22-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/22-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/22-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, Yevgeniy Sverdlik, Yana Sikorskaya, Maria Galbo and Vera Boguslavskaya host a bake and crafts sale on Chestnut St. in San Francisco to raise money for Under a Kind Roof on Dec. 18, 2022. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11936571\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11936571 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/23-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A woman hangs a Ukrainian flag out of an apartment window.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/23-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/23-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/23-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/23-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/23-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/23-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/23-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Galbo hangs the Ukrainian flag from her apartment window in Albany. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11936572\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11936572 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/24-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A husband and wife with their two children sit on a couch together.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/24-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/24-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/24-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/24-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/24-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/24-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/24-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Galbo (center right) with her husband, Yevgeniy Sverdlik (left), and two children, Lev (center left) and Alex (right), at their family apartment in Albany. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11936573\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11936573 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/25-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A woman with blue hair wearing a blue Ukraine shirt.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/25-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/25-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/25-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/25-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/25-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/25-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/25-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Galbo in the courtyard outside her family apartment overlooking the Bay Area. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later, she visited a shelter where refugees from the Russian invasion to the east were staying. Disabled older adults cried as they shared their stories with her, many having spent the last six months moving from shelter to shelter, living off donated groceries and crowded into churches, gymnasiums and schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Galbo listened to their stories and copied their information into a spreadsheet on her laptop. She spent the next week traveling all over the city to find permanent housing for them before the looming winter swept the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Galbo isn’t from Ukraine. She moved to the U.S. from Russia in 2001, and has been living in the Bay Area for nine years. She traveled to Ukraine from her home in Albany, temporarily leaving behind her family and her tech job to provide relief to refugees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11936560\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11936560 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Two dogs stand on the hard-packed dirt in front of a blue-green, two-story building with a peaked roof and gable. Four cars and vans are parked around the building, under a gray sky.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/2-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/2-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/2-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two dogs roam a property for lease in Chernivtsi, Ukraine. The owner runs a car lot on the property, and the buildings are in poor condition. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“My friend’s mom died through this ordeal. She had dementia, and she was in Bucha when they had this horrible situation,” Galbo recalled. “The doctors and nurses only took people who could walk, and those who couldn’t move remained there. By the time transportation came, they were already hungry and neglected.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She tag-teams with her husband, Yevgeniy Sverdlik, so someone is always home to support their two children. As of December, Galbo and Sverdlik have made a combined seven trips to Ukraine to volunteer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11936561\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11936561 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/3-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A group of four mostly young-looking adults stand along the wooden banister in the upstairs area of a home, with bright light coming through tall windows dressed in gauzy curtains.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/3-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/3-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/3-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/3-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stanislav Shoupletsov (left) and Maria Galbo (right) discuss rental terms for a potential property with Elena Akopova (center left) and Anna Gnatiuk (center right). The home has water damage and mold, and the owner is boisterous and rude. Galbo and her team decide not to lease the home. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Galbo’s first trip was back in March of 2022, right after the start of the Russian invasion, and she worked with volunteer organizations to provide financial aid to refugees fleeing across the Polish border. However, after evacuations at the border died down, Galbo realized that those in direst need were the older refugees still in the country. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>That summer, Galbo started her own organization, \u003ca href=\"https://www.underakindroof.com/\">Under a Kind Roof\u003c/a>. She began raising money in the Bay Area and abroad to provide financial help to neglected older adults in Ukraine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was so painful for all of us to watch the elderly people suffer, those who don’t have relatives to help them,” Galbo said. “So we decided, let’s try to help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Galbo created a survey and distributed it among shelters in Chernivtsi and Ivano-Frankivsk. With the responses, she created a spreadsheet of refugees’ information. Then she created a priority list to match refugees with available housing. Every month or so, she travels to Ukraine and links up with a team of volunteers who work to find available housing in cities like Chernivtsi, which have high volumes of older refugees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11936563\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11936563 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/7-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A woman with short, light pink hair, wearing a denim dress and holding a long, olive-colored backpack, walks toward a 10-story apartment building with a facade of white, peach, and brick.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/7-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/7-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/7-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/7-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/7-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/7-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/7-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Galbo approaches a Soviet-era apartment complex, where a unit has become available for lease. Soviet-style apartments like this one can prove difficult for older refugees with mobility issues, and leasing these types of apartments can come down to them having a reliable elevator. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But finding housing is challenging. Accommodation is already in short supply, and the infrastructure in many Ukrainian towns suffers from decay and neglect. To protect older adults from poor living conditions, Galbo and her team personally visit available apartments. Potential homes are often disqualified for water damage, mold and even landlords with apparent substance use issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, safe shelters do appear. Galbo’s team makes sure a potential candidate is a good fit, then shows them the space and leases it for three to six months on their behalf. This can be lifesaving for older adults: An insulated shelter and a warm bed can be the difference between life and death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11936564\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11936564 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/8-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A woman stands framed in a doorway, which with adjacent windows frames and the wall are in shadow, to a terrace outside an apartment building.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/8-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/8-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/8-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/8-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/8-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/8-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/8-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Galbo inspects the balcony of a Soviet-era apartment in Chernivtsi while air raid sirens cry outside. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Giving them a home is giving them hope,” Galbo said. “We see that they start building little homes and getting attached to the new places.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Galbo completed her second trip under her new organization in October, and has been back in the Bay Area preparing for her next trip. The Russian and Ukrainian community in the Bay Area has been a keystone of the fundraising efforts, with volunteer bakers providing thousands of dollars worth of pastries for bake sales in San Francisco, raising over $10,000 for Under a Kind Roof.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11936565\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11936565 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/12-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A long room filled with makeshift beds and cots, with personal belongings scattered about.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/12-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/12-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/12-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/12-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/12-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/12-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/12-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A school hall that has been turned into a shelter for older refugees. Summer break is about to end, and these residents are being asked to relocate. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Galbo plans to continue growing \u003ca href=\"https://www.underakindroof.com/\">Under a Kind Roof\u003c/a> by expanding volunteer opportunities and financial aid. With the help of her husband and her team, she is working tirelessly to continue providing support to the nearly 40 people in her program while continuing to enroll new participants as the war continues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want everybody to just constantly mind that the war is still on right now, more than ever. It’s wintertime. It’s blackouts,” she said. “People have no electricity, no heat, there’s bombings, and there’s no housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11936566\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11936566 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/13-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A youngish white man with very short brown hair, wearing a white T-shirt and shorts with the strap of a black bag across his chest, sits on a cot next to an older white woman, with short, brown hair, who wears a short-sleeved navy blue blouse and jeans. He appears to be listening intently, leaning toward her, as she rests her near hand on the bed between them, her other hand between her knees, gazing beyond him to speak.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/13-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/13-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/13-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/13-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/13-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/13-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/13-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stanislav Shoupletsov (left) listens to Tatyana Gubchenko, 66, as she becomes emotional discussing how she came to be in a shelter. Stanislav joined Under a Kind Roof after losing his close friend, an older neighbor. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11936567\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11936567 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/14-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"An older woman wearing a white, scoop-neck T-shirt, jeans, and white shoes, sits atop a peach-colored coverlet, the top of a desk looming above two pillows, in front of a row of wooden lockers.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/14-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/14-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/14-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/14-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/14-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/14-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/14-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Liudmyla Ivashchenko, 64, sits on her cot at a school-turned-shelter for refugees. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11936568\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11936568 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/15-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A group of elderly people line up in front of a woman with a laptop.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/15-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/15-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/15-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/15-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/15-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/15-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/15-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Older refugees line up to offer their stories and details to Galbo so she can create profiles and her organization can try to find them more permanent shelter. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11936569\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11936569 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/20-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"An elderly woman stands in the doorway of a pink room.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/20-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/20-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/20-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/20-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/20-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/20-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/20-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Liudmyla Ivashchenko, 64, is the first candidate to view this newly leased apartment. She likes it, but insists she wants her own room after having no privacy for several months. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11936570\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11936570 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/22-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A group of women behind a table of baked goods.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/22-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/22-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/22-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/22-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/22-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/22-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/22-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, Yevgeniy Sverdlik, Yana Sikorskaya, Maria Galbo and Vera Boguslavskaya host a bake and crafts sale on Chestnut St. in San Francisco to raise money for Under a Kind Roof on Dec. 18, 2022. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11936571\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11936571 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/23-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A woman hangs a Ukrainian flag out of an apartment window.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/23-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/23-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/23-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/23-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/23-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/23-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/23-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Galbo hangs the Ukrainian flag from her apartment window in Albany. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11936572\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11936572 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/24-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A husband and wife with their two children sit on a couch together.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/24-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/24-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/24-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/24-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/24-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/24-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/24-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Galbo (center right) with her husband, Yevgeniy Sverdlik (left), and two children, Lev (center left) and Alex (right), at their family apartment in Albany. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11936573\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11936573 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/25-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A woman with blue hair wearing a blue Ukraine shirt.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/25-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/25-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/25-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/25-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/25-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/25-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/25-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Galbo in the courtyard outside her family apartment overlooking the Bay Area. 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"content": "\u003ch2>February 26\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Two days after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, I went to Spring of Life Church, an evangelical Baptist church in a suburb of Sacramento. The church was packed with Ukrainians for a prayer breakfast, gathered to find solace from leaders and friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s where I met Dina Samodarov and her father, Volodymyr Androshchuk, who live in Auburn, a Gold Rush town in the Sierra foothills, about 30 miles northeast of Sacramento. Since war struck Ukraine earlier this year, millions have fled the country to find safety, and Volodymyr had decided to take a risk, for his grandson and fellow Ukrainians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through a friend, Androshchuk, a 65-year-old man with a prosthetic right leg and a jolly demeanor, started to explain to me in Ukrainian that he was going back to his war-torn homeland. But we both knew something was lost in translation, so he called over his daughter, Dina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My two brothers are still there with my little nephew … We’re trying to reunite with him,” said Dina, fighting back tears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mother of her 3-year-old nephew in Ukraine had died of COVID, and the boy’s father, her brother, was paralyzed. So Dina was arranging for her father, Volodymyr, and her mother, Valentina, to fly back to Eastern Europe to retrieve their grandson, Ben Androshchuk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11910508\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Dina_Volodymyr-FIX-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11910508\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Dina_Volodymyr-FIX-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Dina_Volodymyr-FIX-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Dina_Volodymyr-FIX-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Dina_Volodymyr-FIX-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Dina_Volodymyr-FIX-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Dina_Volodymyr-FIX-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Dina_Volodymyr-FIX-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volodymyr Androshchuk and his daughter, Dina Samodarov, came up with a plan to rescue Androshchuk’s young grandson from Ukraine. \u003ccite>(Pauline Bartolone/CapRadio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’m trying to be calm,” Dina explained in those first days of war in Ukraine. “But it’s really hard to believe that it’s happening to my land and to people that I love.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Volodymyr wasn’t planning only to retrieve his grandson. He planned to stay in Ukraine to help people stuck in the humanitarian crisis. Volodymyr lost his right leg in an accident while working in a factory in Ukraine. He said, as a disabled person, he has connections that can help other disabled people passing through Rivne, his hometown in Western Ukraine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This plan sounded risky to me. I asked him what gave him the courage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Wherever there’s a need, or [it’s] hard to breathe for people as Christian, I want to be there,” Volodymyr said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People of any faith tradition, including Christianity and Judaism, were persecuted under the USSR, according to the Migration Policy Institute, and many were prevented from getting a higher education and jobs. Some worshiped underground to escape fines and punishment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1990, the United States gave a pathway to those persecuted under the USSR through the \u003ca href=\"https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/RL31269.pdf\">Lautenberg Amendment\u003c/a>, and many Christians, like Dina and her family, came as refugees to the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sacramento metro area is home to one of the largest communities of recently arrived Ukrainians outside Seattle, Chicago and New York, according to a University of Michigan analysis. Samodarov is one of many Ukrainians in the area supporting aid to Ukraine through churches.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>March 1\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The first week after the invasion, Dina was at home on her phone nonstop, funneling donations to missionaries helping Ukrainians under siege.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People have been calling me all morning today,” Samodarov said, while babysitting her nephews.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On March 1, the Tuesday after the invasion, Samodarov was out of breath because of the sheer number of things she was juggling. In just a few hours, she would drive her parents to the airport so they could fly to Poland and embark on a journey to rescue their grandson Ben.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My friend will be picking them up from airport, and giving them shelter for the night,” said Dina. “And then in the morning they will leave to cross the border to Ukraine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Volodomyr walks up onto the patio where we’re talking. You wouldn’t guess he’s about to fly to a war zone across the world. I ask him, through Dina, how he’s feeling about his upcoming mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have to be there, where it’s very bad for people, because that’s where the need is,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Early March\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Two weeks after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Dina went back to her office for the first time since the start of the war. She co-runs a financial advising business with her husband, Denis Samodarov. But she said it was hard to focus on work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[I’m] trying to keep my emotions under control,” said Dina. “It’s really hard to think about something else other than what really is the most important for me at this moment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11910518\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Denis-and-Dina-scaled-e1649370602569.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11910518\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Denis-and-Dina-800x606.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"606\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dina and Denis Samodarov stand in front of the financial advising business they run together in Roseville. \u003ccite>(Pauline Bartolone/CapRadio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Denis Samodarov is a pastor at a Slavic Baptist church in the area, and he’s Russian. “Russians are crazy,” he said with a laugh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Denis’s ancestors fled Russia generations ago. He says he grew up in the Republic of Georgia, and then his family moved back to Russia when he was a teenager, after the fall of the Soviet Union. He says people there are brainwashed by the Russian media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They will say, ‘Hey, we are protecting our borders and we don’t want the United States to get closer to us,'” he said. “It’s all politics, but media playing a huge role.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Denis says most Russians in the U.S. came here to free themselves from their homeland. Many of these Russian immigrants, as well as many Slavic people who are from the former Soviet territories, support Ukrainian independence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Russians and Ukrainians — it’s like a brother and brother, and sister and sister,” he says, adding the two countries know each others’ history, culture and songs. “But politicians, I guess they choose the wrong path.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Mid-March\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In the middle of March, Dina shared with me some good news: Her parents had rescued their grandson Ben, and he was now in Poland. That didn’t mean it would be easy to bring him all the way to the U.S., though.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11910523\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/VAndroshchuk.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11910523\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/VAndroshchuk-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/VAndroshchuk-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/VAndroshchuk-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/VAndroshchuk-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/VAndroshchuk-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/VAndroshchuk.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volodymyr Androshchuk (far left) and his grandson (second from left) stand in front of a van filled with supplies for Ukraine. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Dina Samodarov)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Our concern right now is [that] we have this 3-year-old. We’re planning to bring him to the United States somehow, and nobody’s giving the visas anymore,” she said. “So we’re stuck, we’re a little bit stuck now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dina’s mom, Valentina, was in Poland, waiting for her grandson Ben to receive refugee status so that she could fly him back to California. As for Dina’s dad, Volodymyr, he had thrown himself fully into the humanitarian effort in war-torn Ukraine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three weeks into the war in Ukraine, Dina was still glued to her phone. She was watching videos her dad sent of his work in the conflict zone. He was driving food and hygiene products from Poland into Western Ukraine. On his way back to Poland, he was bussing refugees out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Footage shows him loading boxes into a white van, speaking calmly into the camera. He’s wearing a heavy winter coat and hat. “It’s very organized,” Dina said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8Wz4yKO2i8&t=17s\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was with Dina when she video-called her dad on March 18, at 7:30 p.m. Poland time. He was staying at a shelter in Warsaw. Through Dina’s phone, Volodymyr gave us a tour. I saw what looked like a couple of rooms in a modest apartment, with wooden bunk beds for fewer than a dozen people. Dina explained that he was living with other refugees in that building, but only temporarily. Volodymyr changed location every day or two.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I asked how his grandson Ben was doing with all the changes. He was facing some devastating losses, having just left his dad and his home country and, also recently, lost his mother to COVID. All things considered, Volodymyr said, his young grandson seemed excited about coming to the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He wants to meet with his cousins. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People of any faith tradition, including Christianity and Judaism, were persecuted under the USSR, according to the Migration Policy Institute, and many were prevented from getting a higher education and jobs. Some worshiped underground to escape fines and punishment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1990, the United States gave a pathway to those persecuted under the USSR through the \u003ca href=\"https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/RL31269.pdf\">Lautenberg Amendment\u003c/a>, and many Christians, like Dina and her family, came as refugees to the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sacramento metro area is home to one of the largest communities of recently arrived Ukrainians outside Seattle, Chicago and New York, according to a University of Michigan analysis. Samodarov is one of many Ukrainians in the area supporting aid to Ukraine through churches.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>March 1\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The first week after the invasion, Dina was at home on her phone nonstop, funneling donations to missionaries helping Ukrainians under siege.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People have been calling me all morning today,” Samodarov said, while babysitting her nephews.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On March 1, the Tuesday after the invasion, Samodarov was out of breath because of the sheer number of things she was juggling. In just a few hours, she would drive her parents to the airport so they could fly to Poland and embark on a journey to rescue their grandson Ben.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My friend will be picking them up from airport, and giving them shelter for the night,” said Dina. “And then in the morning they will leave to cross the border to Ukraine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Volodomyr walks up onto the patio where we’re talking. You wouldn’t guess he’s about to fly to a war zone across the world. I ask him, through Dina, how he’s feeling about his upcoming mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have to be there, where it’s very bad for people, because that’s where the need is,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Early March\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Two weeks after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Dina went back to her office for the first time since the start of the war. She co-runs a financial advising business with her husband, Denis Samodarov. But she said it was hard to focus on work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[I’m] trying to keep my emotions under control,” said Dina. “It’s really hard to think about something else other than what really is the most important for me at this moment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11910518\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Denis-and-Dina-scaled-e1649370602569.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11910518\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Denis-and-Dina-800x606.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"606\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dina and Denis Samodarov stand in front of the financial advising business they run together in Roseville. \u003ccite>(Pauline Bartolone/CapRadio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Denis Samodarov is a pastor at a Slavic Baptist church in the area, and he’s Russian. “Russians are crazy,” he said with a laugh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Denis’s ancestors fled Russia generations ago. He says he grew up in the Republic of Georgia, and then his family moved back to Russia when he was a teenager, after the fall of the Soviet Union. He says people there are brainwashed by the Russian media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They will say, ‘Hey, we are protecting our borders and we don’t want the United States to get closer to us,'” he said. “It’s all politics, but media playing a huge role.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Denis says most Russians in the U.S. came here to free themselves from their homeland. Many of these Russian immigrants, as well as many Slavic people who are from the former Soviet territories, support Ukrainian independence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Russians and Ukrainians — it’s like a brother and brother, and sister and sister,” he says, adding the two countries know each others’ history, culture and songs. “But politicians, I guess they choose the wrong path.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Mid-March\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In the middle of March, Dina shared with me some good news: Her parents had rescued their grandson Ben, and he was now in Poland. That didn’t mean it would be easy to bring him all the way to the U.S., though.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11910523\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/VAndroshchuk.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11910523\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/VAndroshchuk-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/VAndroshchuk-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/VAndroshchuk-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/VAndroshchuk-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/VAndroshchuk-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/VAndroshchuk.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volodymyr Androshchuk (far left) and his grandson (second from left) stand in front of a van filled with supplies for Ukraine. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Dina Samodarov)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Our concern right now is [that] we have this 3-year-old. 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"content": "\u003cp>Over the past month, mainstream media outlets in the United States have been packed with stories about the Russian invasion of Ukraine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for people looking for a somewhat different take on the news — and who are able to read articles written in Ukrainian — there’s \u003ca href=\"https://hromada.us/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hromada\u003c/a>.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Lesya Castillo, Hromada co-founder and editor-in-chief\"]‘Our newspaper is something that I dreamed of starting because there was a need. Our priority is to unite community, to serve community.’[/pullquote]With a circulation of about 1,000 copies, the monthly print edition of Hromada — which means “community” in Ukrainian — can be found at a dozen locations throughout Northern California, including Ukrainian churches and grocery stores in the Bay Area and Sacramento, as well as the Ukrainian consulate in San Francisco. The publication, which launched in 2017, also is available through\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> its more frequently updated online and social media channels. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘I read it every month’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At the Immaculate Conception Ukrainian Catholic Church in San Francisco’s Portola neighborhood, 62-year-old parishioner Orest Balytsky said he’s been a fan of the paper since it launched four years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11909078\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11909078 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54662_IMG_6469-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A priest faces the altar in a church, as parishioners pray. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54662_IMG_6469-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54662_IMG_6469-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54662_IMG_6469-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54662_IMG_6469-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54662_IMG_6469-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Sunday service at the Immaculate Conception Ukrainian Catholic Church in San Francisco, where copies of Hromada are distributed. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I read it every month,” said Balytsky, a Petaluma-based \u003ca href=\"https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/16959-endodontics\">endodontist\u003c/a> who moved here from Ukraine in the early 1990s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over coffee and pizza in the church basement after a recent Sunday service, Balytsky said most U.S. media has been too focused on the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine and has largely oversimplified or overlooked the political factors at play.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s quite shocking and quite depressing, too,” he said, of the current situation in his homeland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In contrast, he said, Hromada offers clear-eyed political analysis from trusted sources on the ground in Ukraine, like \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitaly_Portnikov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vitaly Portnikov\u003c/a>, a well-known journalist and radio personality who regularly contributes commentary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you listen to Portnikov, he analyzes a little bit different,” Balytsky said. “It’s much more sober.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fellow churchgoer Lydia Stoykovych, a second-generation Ukrainian American, said Hromada not only has great writers, but also helps foster a sense of connection among the Ukrainian community in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hromada helps unite, spread the message, give a voice to a lot of the people who are here,” said Stoykovych, a 32-year-old tech worker from Danville. “Having local activities, local events publicized is critical and what people on the West Coast want to hear. Because this is where we are. This is where we can take action. This is where we can help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Necessary info\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/blog/ukrainian-immigrants-in-california/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">U.S. Census Bureau data\u003c/a> shows California has around 60,000 Ukrainian immigrants — the second-largest population in the country, after New York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11909081\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1429px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54659_Lesya1-1-qut-e1648160185456.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11909081\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54659_Lesya1-1-qut-e1648160185456.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1429\" height=\"1101\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54659_Lesya1-1-qut-e1648160185456.jpg 1429w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54659_Lesya1-1-qut-e1648160185456-800x616.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54659_Lesya1-1-qut-e1648160185456-1020x786.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54659_Lesya1-1-qut-e1648160185456-160x123.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1429px) 100vw, 1429px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hromada co-founder and editor in chief, Lesya Castillo. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Lesya Castillo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yet, Mike Wassenaar, president and CEO of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.allcommunitymedia.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alliance for Community Media\u003c/a>, said Hromada is, to his knowledge, the only Ukrainian-language newspaper on the entire West Coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wassenaar, whose organization tracks grassroots broadcast and print outlets across the country, said community media sources like Hromada serve an important function.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have diaspora communities who have need for information about their daily life in America, and also about the lives of their families and friends in their home countries or in the countries of origin,” he said. “\u003cb>\u003c/b>And very often, mainstream outlets find it very hard to target information specifically that those audiences need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Responding to the need\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Hromada’s co-founder and editor-in-chief, Lesya Castillo, said she got the idea to start a Ukrainian-language newspaper after Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, and things started to destabilize in her native country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11909191\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54610_20220318_Hromada-17-qut-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11909191\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54610_20220318_Hromada-17-qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"A woman works behind a laptop.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54610_20220318_Hromada-17-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54610_20220318_Hromada-17-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54610_20220318_Hromada-17-qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54610_20220318_Hromada-17-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54610_20220318_Hromada-17-qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hromada co-founder Nataliya Anon works at her desk in the publication’s Corte Madera office on March 18, 2022. \u003ccite>(Amaya Edwards/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Our newspaper is something that I dreamed of starting because there was a need,” said Castillo, who lived in the Bay Area for around 25 years before recently decamping to North Carolina following her husband’s retirement. “Our priority is to unite community, to serve community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hromada pays its contributors. But everyone else involved with the Corte Madera-based nonprofit donates their time — including Castillo (who makes her living as a graphic designer) and co-founder \u003ca href=\"https://svitla.com/about/ceo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nataliya Anon\u003c/a>, CEO of tech start-up Svitla Systems, also based in Corte Madera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Coverage\" tag=\"ukraine\"]“We thought it would be important for us to have a newspaper that is printed in Ukrainian so it could be a magnet and unifying force for the local Ukrainian community, where people can read about local Ukrainian events, where we could advertise Ukrainian businesses,” said Anon, who came to the U.S. in the 1990s and now lives in Marin County. “We also wanted to spread awareness and create a sense of community together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interesting aside that speaks to the deep roots of the Ukrainian community in the Bay Area, Anon said that although her publication might be the only Ukrainian-language media in the region today, it’s by no means the first: A Ukrainian priest named \u003ca href=\"http://www.brama.com/news/press/990424honcharenko.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Father Agapius Honcharenko\u003c/a>, who lived in the Hayward hills for more than 40 years in the late 19th century and is buried in Garin Regional Park, published The Alaska Herald from 1868-1872.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hromada has closely followed and reported on events unfolding in Ukraine. While most articles in the paper are written in Ukrainian, it prints all of its top headlines, and occasional stories, in English to grab the attention of non-Ukrainian speakers. The March issue leads with “NO-FLY ZONE OVER UKRAINE,” printed in large, red capital letters.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>More than a media outlet\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Hromada goes beyond journalism: Anon said the nonprofit has sent several hundred thousand dollars in aid to Ukraine over the past four years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It initially set up a fund to buy Christmas presents for orphaned children who lost their parents in the ongoing Crimean conflict. Anon said prior to the most recent Russian invasion, the group had raised about $100,000 for that cause. Since then, she said, Hromada has sent more than $150,000 in general emergency aid to Ukraine, and additionally plans to send at least $50,000 next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whatever money we collect, we send overnight to various charitable organizations and volunteers in Ukraine, in war zones, and they use that money for the most pressing needs for the refugees,” said Anon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11909097\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11909097 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54599_20220318_Hromada-06-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman and man stand outside an office building holding a Ukrainian flag and a sign that says, 'No-Fly Zone Over Ukraine.'\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54599_20220318_Hromada-06-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54599_20220318_Hromada-06-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54599_20220318_Hromada-06-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54599_20220318_Hromada-06-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54599_20220318_Hromada-06-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hromada co-founder Nataliya Anon, left, and volunteer CFO Yarema Kuzyshyn in front of the publication’s office in Corte Madera on March 18, 2022. \u003ccite>(Amaya Edwards/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Despite her group’s deep immersion in Ukrainian affairs over the past few years, Castillo said the Russian invasion came as a shock to her and her team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I couldn’t imagine that Russia would start bombing Ukrainian cities on such a large scale,” she said, noting that she only had a few days to completely rethink the March edition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For that issue, Karyna Nikitishyna, the publication’s youngest correspondent, filed a story from Kyiv, where she has continued to live despite the risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was originally supposed to do an article about the readiness of Ukraine in the case of a big war,” Nikitishyna said in a recent WhatsApp interview. “In the end, I just wrote about my experience of the first week of war and how surreal it all felt.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her story in the March issue, she describes, among other things, what it felt like when the windows of her home first started to shake as bombs exploded nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nikitishyna, who turned 21 this week, said she recently spent hours trying to buy a birthday cake for herself in Kyiv’s empty grocery stores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the face of turmoil, Nikitishyna said the work she does for Hromada feels important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like I’m doing something useful for society,” she said. “To provide information for Ukrainian people overseas who are far away from their ancestral home and who need to know real news about what is going on here.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s quite shocking and quite depressing, too,” he said, of the current situation in his homeland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In contrast, he said, Hromada offers clear-eyed political analysis from trusted sources on the ground in Ukraine, like \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitaly_Portnikov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vitaly Portnikov\u003c/a>, a well-known journalist and radio personality who regularly contributes commentary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you listen to Portnikov, he analyzes a little bit different,” Balytsky said. “It’s much more sober.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fellow churchgoer Lydia Stoykovych, a second-generation Ukrainian American, said Hromada not only has great writers, but also helps foster a sense of connection among the Ukrainian community in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hromada helps unite, spread the message, give a voice to a lot of the people who are here,” said Stoykovych, a 32-year-old tech worker from Danville. “Having local activities, local events publicized is critical and what people on the West Coast want to hear. Because this is where we are. This is where we can take action. This is where we can help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Necessary info\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/blog/ukrainian-immigrants-in-california/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">U.S. Census Bureau data\u003c/a> shows California has around 60,000 Ukrainian immigrants — the second-largest population in the country, after New York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11909081\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1429px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54659_Lesya1-1-qut-e1648160185456.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11909081\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54659_Lesya1-1-qut-e1648160185456.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1429\" height=\"1101\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54659_Lesya1-1-qut-e1648160185456.jpg 1429w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54659_Lesya1-1-qut-e1648160185456-800x616.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54659_Lesya1-1-qut-e1648160185456-1020x786.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54659_Lesya1-1-qut-e1648160185456-160x123.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1429px) 100vw, 1429px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hromada co-founder and editor in chief, Lesya Castillo. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Lesya Castillo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yet, Mike Wassenaar, president and CEO of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.allcommunitymedia.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alliance for Community Media\u003c/a>, said Hromada is, to his knowledge, the only Ukrainian-language newspaper on the entire West Coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wassenaar, whose organization tracks grassroots broadcast and print outlets across the country, said community media sources like Hromada serve an important function.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have diaspora communities who have need for information about their daily life in America, and also about the lives of their families and friends in their home countries or in the countries of origin,” he said. “\u003cb>\u003c/b>And very often, mainstream outlets find it very hard to target information specifically that those audiences need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Responding to the need\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Hromada’s co-founder and editor-in-chief, Lesya Castillo, said she got the idea to start a Ukrainian-language newspaper after Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, and things started to destabilize in her native country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11909191\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54610_20220318_Hromada-17-qut-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11909191\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54610_20220318_Hromada-17-qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"A woman works behind a laptop.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54610_20220318_Hromada-17-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54610_20220318_Hromada-17-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54610_20220318_Hromada-17-qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54610_20220318_Hromada-17-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54610_20220318_Hromada-17-qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hromada co-founder Nataliya Anon works at her desk in the publication’s Corte Madera office on March 18, 2022. \u003ccite>(Amaya Edwards/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Our newspaper is something that I dreamed of starting because there was a need,” said Castillo, who lived in the Bay Area for around 25 years before recently decamping to North Carolina following her husband’s retirement. “Our priority is to unite community, to serve community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hromada pays its contributors. 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But she still didn’t expect the response she got: more than 30,000 retweets and more than 90,000 likes, along with at least 100 direct messages of support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the tens of thousands of people who saw the tweet, one would eventually help them find a path to safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 3 million refugees now have fled Ukraine since Russia launched its unprovoked invasion at the end of February. This week, UNICEF shared the harrowing statistic that the conflict is creating a new child refugee \u003ca href=\"https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/03/1113942#:~:text=More%20than%203%20million%20people,in%20the%20last%2020%20days.&text=Some%201.5%20million%20children%20have,invasion%20began%20on%2024%20February.\">almost every second\u003c/a>. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday \u003ca href=\"https://www.c-span.org/video/?518685-1/ukrainian-president-zelensky-calls-us-back-fly-zone-provide-defensive-weapons\">addressed U.S. lawmakers\u003c/a>, imploring them and President Biden to send more support, and sharing a jarring video documenting the devastation in his country.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Katia Savchuk, Bay Area journalist\"]'I just decided to go on Twitter and try to do what I do as a journalist, which is look for information, talk to people. So I put out a tweet.'[/pullquote]While officials have some sense of the number of people the war is displacing, it’s harder to keep track of how many have made it to safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Yevgenii and Zoia Burdol are two of the lucky ones. They reached a hotel in Heidelberg, Germany late last week – it’s now their temporary home until they figure out what’s next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Savchuk, who has a Jewish background, was born in Kyiv and emigrated to the United States in 1989, at age 3, when her mother and maternal grandmother fled antisemitism in the Soviet Union. Her father stayed behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11908669\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Katia-Savchuk-Yvgenii-Burdol.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11908669\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Katia-Savchuk-Yvgenii-Burdol.jpeg\" alt=\"Katia Savchuk with her father Yvgenii Burdol when she visited Kyiv in 2016.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Katia-Savchuk-Yvgenii-Burdol.jpeg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Katia-Savchuk-Yvgenii-Burdol-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Katia-Savchuk-Yvgenii-Burdol-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Katia-Savchuk-Yvgenii-Burdol-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Katia-Savchuk-Yvgenii-Burdol-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Katia Savchuk (left) with her father, Yvgenii Burdol, during a visit to Kyiv in 2016. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Katia Savchuk)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Savchuk says she didn't see him again in person until she was 21, nearly two decades later. They’ve kept in touch through phone calls and messaging apps, and she had been checking in on him often as the prospect of war grew increasingly imminent. Her father didn’t initially believe the invasion would happen, she says, but not long after Putin launched the attacks, he told her that he was seriously considering evacuation options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He's a man of few words and not very emotive … so when he told me, you know, ‘I'm worried. I'm concerned,’” Savchuk said, “that really scared me because he doesn't normally admit that kind of thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her father and grandmother, Zoia, had been living for days amid air sirens and keeping their lights out at night to avoid being an easier target for Russian aircraft. Because of her mobility issues, Zoia did not feel safe getting all the way down to their building's basement bomb shelter, where she would likely have been packed into a crowded, confined space. 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Volunteers from the force and a logistics group informed the Burdols of their departure date, set for March 8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So they found a Toyota minivan that the dealership just lent to them, really,” Savchuk said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Savchuk’s father and grandmother, along with a family friend — and that friend’s pet parrot — loaded into the van and set off on their multiday journey across multiple borders from Ukraine to Germany.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11908672\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 763px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Zoia-Oles-Igor-in-front-of-van.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11908672\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Zoia-Oles-Igor-in-front-of-van.jpeg\" alt=\"An elderly woman surrounded by two men in camouflage.\" width=\"763\" height=\"671\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Zoia-Oles-Igor-in-front-of-van.jpeg 763w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Zoia-Oles-Igor-in-front-of-van-160x141.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 763px) 100vw, 763px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zoia Burdol (center) with Territorial Defense Forces escorts Oles Maliarevych (left) and Igor Silchenko on their journey from Kyiv, Ukraine, to Germany. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Katia Savchuk)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Just weeks earlier, their heavily armed escorts were regular civilians, Savchuk notes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In normal times, you know, one of them's a film producer and on the city council. 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It’s calming,” she said. “This is what keeps me sane, because if I start reading the news, I will just sink into despair.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11908635\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11908635\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54342_003_KQED_UkrainianChefAnnaVoloshyna_03152022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Detail photo of hands working to fill dumpling dough with filling over a large mixing bowl, with small circular bits of dough on the counter\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54342_003_KQED_UkrainianChefAnnaVoloshyna_03152022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54342_003_KQED_UkrainianChefAnnaVoloshyna_03152022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54342_003_KQED_UkrainianChefAnnaVoloshyna_03152022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54342_003_KQED_UkrainianChefAnnaVoloshyna_03152022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54342_003_KQED_UkrainianChefAnnaVoloshyna_03152022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chef Anna Voloshyna prepares traditional Ukrainian half-moon-shaped dumplings called varenyky at her home in San Francisco on March 15, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Voloshyna lights up as she’s preparing the dough for these half-moon-shaped dumplings, which are simple but packed with flavor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This recipe, which comes from her mother-in-law, calls for a basic dough (flour, eggs and water) that’s cut into small circles. These will house a filling of choice — today, she selects a special cheese she bought at a Slavic store in San Francisco. She boils the dumplings for a few minutes, tosses them in brown butter and adds a hearty dollop of sour cream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In Ukraine, sour cream is like butter,” she said, laughing. “Ukrainian food is very comforting. A lot of carbs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11908541\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11908541\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54355_015_KQED_UkrainianChefAnnaVoloshyna_03152022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Traditional Ukrainian dumplings called varenyky are lined up on a wooden board. They're shaped like half moons and fit in the palm of your hand.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54355_015_KQED_UkrainianChefAnnaVoloshyna_03152022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54355_015_KQED_UkrainianChefAnnaVoloshyna_03152022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54355_015_KQED_UkrainianChefAnnaVoloshyna_03152022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54355_015_KQED_UkrainianChefAnnaVoloshyna_03152022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54355_015_KQED_UkrainianChefAnnaVoloshyna_03152022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Varenyky, Ukrainian dumplings, are prepared by chef Anna Voloshyna at her home in San Francisco on March 15, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Voloshyna, who has a \u003ca href=\"https://www.rizzolibookstore.com/budmo-recipes-ukrainian-kitchen\">cookbook\u003c/a> coming out later this year, has a passion for sharing the stories and dishes of her homeland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and her husband moved to the Bay Area in 2011, and over the years she’s hosted pop-up dinners featuring Slavic dishes. These \u003ca href=\"https://www.tastemade.com/anna-voloshyna\">ongoing dinners\u003c/a> have assumed new urgency, with Voloshyna pivoting to use them as a way to raise thousands of dollars in relief funds as Russian forces continue to invade Ukraine. Proceeds from a dinner on March 13 went to \u003ca href=\"https://wck.org/\">World Central Kitchen\u003c/a>, a nonprofit organization that’s serving thousands of meals to Ukrainian families fleeing home as well as those who remain in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voloshyna also is holding online cooking classes \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CbJkwe0rLBv/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\">including one taking place Saturday\u003c/a>, and she’s signed up for a \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CasNuajJq1_/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\">bake-a-thon on Sunday\u003c/a> that has already raised its goal of $20,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Voloshyna talked about these efforts and how she’s been holding up with KQED morning host Brian Watt.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>BRIAN WATT: Are you able to speak with your family every day?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ANNA VOLOSHYNA: I talk with them almost every day. For the past two days [as of Tuesday, March 15], I wasn’t able to talk to them as often as I want to because there was no light, no electricity, no internet. But some parts were restored. At least for a couple hours a day, they have internet and electricity, so they can recharge their phones and call me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How are you processing news about Russia’s invasion?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the time, I try to stay busy and cook for people or get donations. I try to do something good and tangible that I actually take my mind off the war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You have been hosting dinners to raise money. How are they going?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We had our first dinner on March 13, and it was amazing. It was probably the most wonderful dinner I’ve ever had because the community came together, and the support I got was overwhelming. Probably 10 minutes before the dinner, somebody brought me a letter at the venue [where] we hosted the dinner. I don’t know who wrote that letter and I opened it. It was actually a check for $1,000. (Voloshyna later told KQED she donated $6,000 raised during that March 13 dinner to World Central Kitchen.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11908542\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11908542\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54361_021_KQED_UkrainianChefAnnaVoloshyna_03152022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Chef Anna Voloshyna is in her kitchen. She holds a white bowl full of a savory cheese filling. She dollops a small amount into dumpling dough placed on the counter.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54361_021_KQED_UkrainianChefAnnaVoloshyna_03152022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54361_021_KQED_UkrainianChefAnnaVoloshyna_03152022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54361_021_KQED_UkrainianChefAnnaVoloshyna_03152022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54361_021_KQED_UkrainianChefAnnaVoloshyna_03152022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54361_021_KQED_UkrainianChefAnnaVoloshyna_03152022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chef Anna Voloshyna plates varenyky with sour cream at her home in San Francisco on March 15, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>It sounds like you’ve got quite a following on social media. It’s been very good to you for these efforts, right?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, I’m lucky to be a part of this San Francisco culinary community because people here are kind and generous. And if they cannot donate money, they will donate their time. The support here keeps me afloat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Do you worry that if this war continues, it could lead to an erasure of culture, including Ukrainian cuisine?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is one of my biggest fears because Russia has a mission to destroy Ukraine. They will not allow us to keep our culture, and our cuisine will suffer from that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I want a Michelin guide in Ukraine. I want amazing chefs who will turn Ukrainian cuisine into something new and exciting — not only traditional but something modern and creative. But if Russia wins, then I will have to keep the traditions. I don’t want to tell stories about the past. 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It’s calming,” she said. “This is what keeps me sane, because if I start reading the news, I will just sink into despair.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11908635\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11908635\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54342_003_KQED_UkrainianChefAnnaVoloshyna_03152022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Detail photo of hands working to fill dumpling dough with filling over a large mixing bowl, with small circular bits of dough on the counter\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54342_003_KQED_UkrainianChefAnnaVoloshyna_03152022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54342_003_KQED_UkrainianChefAnnaVoloshyna_03152022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54342_003_KQED_UkrainianChefAnnaVoloshyna_03152022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54342_003_KQED_UkrainianChefAnnaVoloshyna_03152022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54342_003_KQED_UkrainianChefAnnaVoloshyna_03152022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chef Anna Voloshyna prepares traditional Ukrainian half-moon-shaped dumplings called varenyky at her home in San Francisco on March 15, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Voloshyna lights up as she’s preparing the dough for these half-moon-shaped dumplings, which are simple but packed with flavor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This recipe, which comes from her mother-in-law, calls for a basic dough (flour, eggs and water) that’s cut into small circles. 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She said her decision to study international security at Stanford is her way of contributing to her country, calling it an act of \"defiance.\"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Catarina Buchatskiy, Ukrainian international student, Stanford University\"]'You come to realize that you have a personal responsibility in every choice you make to ensure that you are preserving your own identity and culture in it.'[/pullquote]\u003c/span>\"Every moment I spend being Ukrainian and protecting my Ukrainian-ness is a moment of defiance, and an act of resistance. Because there's people out there that don't think that we should exist,\" Buchatskiy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torchylo’s family in Ukraine is doing all they can to protect their homeland — and he's doing everything he can in Palo Alto. He’s been attending protests and calling for donations to the Ukrainian army, for Western powers to continue taking steps to debilitate Russia’s economy and for educating non-Ukrainians about the country's history. He, too, said the conflict was bigger than himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s more important than just my life, or my family’s,\" Torchylo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11907815\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11907815\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Torch.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"728\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Torch.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Torch-160x146.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">'If Ukrainian people are able to overthrow our tyrant, that means that Russian people can stand up to Putin. And that's what's happening right now,' said Andrii Torchylo, a 19-year-old Ukrainian student studying at Stanford. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Andrii Torchylo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In December, Ukrainian officials estimated that 94,000 Russian troops circled the Ukrainian border. Torchylo recalled feeling that tension during his last visit to Ukraine on winter break, something he called his \"last Christmas.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both he and his sister are international students, but his sister decided to take a gap year and remained in Kyiv. His father volunteered for the army after his parents fled their farming town a day before the invasion.\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Catarina Buchatskiy, Ukrainian international student, Stanford University\"]'Every moment I spend being Ukrainian and protecting my Ukrainian-ness is a moment of defiance, and an act of resistance.'[/pullquote]\u003c/span>\"People are not supposed to just stand by and watch how the country of the aggressor [is] bombing Ukrainian cities like Nazis did in 1944,\" Torchlyo said. \"It’s not supposed to happen.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While he said he feels \"pathetic\" for not returning to Ukraine to join the physical fight, he said he knows the Russian government is targeting the most educated and patriotic Ukrainians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When Russia attacks, their main goal is to kill the most patriotic, the most pro-democratic people of Ukraine — because those will be the ones who first volunteer to the army,\" Torchylo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buchatskiy said she felt immense pride to see average Ukrainians taking arms to defend their homeland, and decided to help in any way she could. 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