Northeast Ohio continues to play a growing role in aiding those fleeing the war-torn country 14 months after the Russian invasion.
CLEVELAND — Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovich spent Wednesday in Cleveland. Yovanovich visited the Ukrainian Museum-Archives in Tremont where she was greeted by school kids and local Ukrainian leaders. Her visit comes as
Nataliya Teluk can relate. She was in her home in Kyiv in February of last year when she recalled her phone kept ringing. "At five o'clock I woke up from massive explosion because I live in Downtown Kiev so my windows were shaken,” she recalled. She ended up re-joining her family here in September and has since been overwhelmed by the hospitality of not just the Ukrainian population but all of Northeast Ohio.
It's precisely the message she plans on taking back to Kyiv when she returns on Sunday for a three-week trip to visit her father and check in on her home. “This is a good place to discover; this is a good place to start their life."
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