Among those on the nine-hour flight to Anchorage were Mariia and Anton Bershytska and their three-year-old son, Iaroslav. They spent three months in Poland after fleeing their home in Bucha, outside Kyiv.
A Ukrainian woman wipes away tears upon arriving at Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport on Saturday, May 21, 2022.
Family members and volunteers from the Ukraine Relief Program were there to greet them with flowers and hugs. Twelve people from Ukraine arrived over the weekend, and hundreds more are expected in the coming weeks thanks to the local nonprofit and a new federal program. “Our city was destroyed by war, and many people died there and all infrastructure of Bucha was destroyed too. And it was awful,” said Mariia Bershytska.Uniting for Ukraine program“We will stay here in this program during two years, and we hope that the peace in our Ukraine will be and we can back there. We hope so,” said Bershytska.
The United Nations estimates that more than six million Ukrainians have been displaced since Russia invaded earlier this year. That number will rise as the conflict drags on.
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