'Time Is Very Crucial': Chicago's Ukrainians Organize Aid for Family Back Home

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Home to the second-largest Ukrainian population in U.S., Chicagoans unite against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

so that others can share it. “If you want to help Ukrainians, this is not a third-party person — It’s direct,” she says. “We’ll do what we need to do, and will give it to the people who are doing humanitarian help and they send it to Ukraine. So it’s all happening here. We’re asking them to do it overnight as soon as possible, because time is very crucial right now.”

By Sunday, the support swelled at another protest in front of the church. Ukrainian national songs were sung; “Slava Ukrayini” greetings were answered with a boisterous “Heroyam Slava” , a Ukrainian call-and-response echoing the firm resolve many in attendance have embraced through generations of fighting for their sovereignty.

Maria Klimchak, curator at the Ukrainian National Museum, fled Western Ukraine as a refugee to the U.S. in 1993. She was born in 1961, when Russia occupied the country. “We wanted to find a way to raise our kids in a democratic society, and also we wanted to feel free, because living in the Soviet Union in a cage for 30 years, I understood what future my children [could] expect,” she tells. Her daughter was three, and her son was age eight at the time. While her children were raised in the U.S.

 

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