Ukrainians share the heartache of leaving their homeland to start new lives and uncertainty over their next steps
have mainly sought safety in nearby European countries such as Poland, Germany and the Czech Republic, but some have travelled as far afield as Japan and Iceland. It marks the biggest movement of people in Europe since the second world war.
“We all miss each other,” Tsymbaliuk said in an interview through an interpreter. “But I’m very proud of my father for defending our country and I want to be like him when I grow up.”last month that killed at least 25 people, including three children. “I go to school every day and have made new friends. I also take karate lessons and am eating various Japanese foods that I’ve never tasted before,” said Tsymbaliuk, who is learning Japanese and keeps in touch with friends at home via occasional online chats.
“All the kids are very cheerful and it’s hard to tell that there is a war going on looking at their faces,” Ozawa said. She packed a few possessions into a rucksack, taking just a laptop, passport, student diploma, personal documents and a single change of clothes. Both Yelyzaveta Taranukha, right, and her hosts grew frustrated by the complex bureaucracy that every Ukrainian refugee had to navigate to enter the UK © Anna Gordon/FT
But she has grown accustomed to her new life. She works for the institute, co-ordinating English courses for Ukrainians. In her spare time, she helps others navigate the British visa application system. But she constantly worries about her family back in Ukraine, some of whom are in territory now occupied by the Russians.
Before the invasion she lived in Bucha, 30km north-west of Kyiv, and worked as the director of a business school. One night, soon after the invasion, her husband Denys Verba joined the local defence organisation and she left home to embark on the journey out of Ukraine. Alevtyna Kudinova, third from left, seated, moved to Shropshire, in the UK, where she is staying with a family that has made rental properties available to Ukrainian refugees © Andrew Fox/FT
Kudinova’s boys now go to Moor Park and she continues to work remotely, running the business school from Shropshire. They spend time with the other families on the estate. His Warsaw job search quickly yielded fruit. Since April, Nikolayuk has worked as an online recruiter at Boston Consulting Group, under an initiative it launched to recruit Ukrainian refugees. His job involves searching online for suitable candidates for the consultancy firm.
Alex Nikolayuk, right, worked as an online recruiter at Boston Consulting Group, under an initiative that is being co-ordinated out of the consultancy’s Warsaw office by Maciej Gerhardt, left © Maciek Jazwiecki/FT Marianna Pelykh, centre, with her 14-year-old son Andrew, right, and Marina Krisov, who helped evacuate the family from Ukraine © Marina KrisovMARIANNA pELYKH, 40, Niesky, Germany
Kharkiv train station was packed with thousands of desperate Ukrainians and Andrey was petrified by the crowds. “Marina waited for hours to get my son and my parents on to a bus and bring them to me. I will never forget how it felt to hug them for the first time in two weeks. She saved us that day.” Marianna Pelykh’s family is living in apartments alongside 60 other Ukrainian families whose children have special educational needs © Marina Krisov
“Everyone was always staring . . . but eventually they got used to us,” Odnopozova said. “Italy is very different”, she added, “you don’t know what to do, you have no plans.”
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