“I know what it means to be under the Russian boot,” Maria Ivankiv said. “I remember how much my family lived with suffering under the Soviet rule. It was horrible.'
A local prayer service was held on Sunday at St. Andrew Ukrainian Catholic Church in Parma, where it was impossible to ignore the combination of hope and fear.
Ukrainian-Americans who attended the service are standing strong in their faith that peace will ultimately prevail. Ivankiv, who has lived in Northeast Ohio for 20 years, is even more worried about the safety of her 87-year-old mother in Lviv, where most of the buildings have been leveled.
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