Olena Kopchak, her husband and their 8-year-old daughter, Yana, are among the growing number of Ukrainians who are trying to make it to the United States — and confronting obstacles.
Olena Kopchak, her husband, Albert Kodua, and their eight-year-old daughter, Yana, are staying in a small 250-square-foot apartment in Warsaw, Poland. They hope to make it to the United States.
Kopchak, 40, her husband and Yana spent nine days in her parents' basement. They survived largely on bread and crackers, as the Russians carried out a relentless barrage on their hometown, Mykolaiv, a Ukrainian port city that's critical to Moscow's efforts to gain more control of the Black Sea. While most will want to stay close in Europe, a growing number of desperate Ukrainians are trying to make it to the United States — and going to great lengths to do so."We all want to be in the United States together," said Kopchak's husband, Albert Kodua, 31."We will manage to take care of each other."
The reality is there are few legal pathways to get to the United States, Vignarajah says. Their case speaks to the difficulty for families in the United States to bring refugees to safety,"even when there is political will and the connections to do so." The Biden administration is urging patience and promised that the administration would share more details on different legal pathways in the coming weeks.
Olena Kopchak, her husband, Albert Kodua, and their daughter, Yana, spent nine days in her parents' basement as Russian forces attacked her Ukrainian city.
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