With local help, Ukrainians who've fled the Russian invasion of their country are learning to navigate the school system, subways, legal issues, and heartbreak in New York City.
, urging them to provide legal assistance for new arrivals. That appeal resulted in an emerging legal support network of 23 attorneys, all of whom speak Russian or Ukrainian.
Although they anticipate the numbers will grow significantly, Sakirski and Zolotarevsky both estimated “a few hundred” Ukrainians had already arrived in New York since the invasion. She spends much of her free time staying in touch with her family, telling them, she said, “that I love them very much.”
“It’s scary to end up in a situation like this where we don’t know what's going to happen tomorrow,” she said. “Are you going to be alive? Will your closest people be alive? Your friends, your acquaintances?”Ukrainian refugee Iryna, who withheld her last name because of safety and privacy concerns, arrived alone in Brooklyn March 3. She left behind her husband of 30 years and a 28-year-old son.
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