Posted on 03/30/2022 5:17:59 AM PDT by Cronos
...It’s March 15 and Iryna Zinchenko is glancing nervously at her phone as she cooks lunch — pasta with bacon. The previous day she heard from her parents for the first time in over a week and today’s the day they’re supposed to escape from Mariupol, a city in southern Ukraine that’s come under fierce attack from Russian forces.
Zinchenko, 27, her husband Ivan Kokhno, 28, their 3-year-old son Lev and four cats, made the same journey a week earlier.
Once the Russian attack began, they grabbed the bag and caught a bus that started a 1,500-kilometer journey to Warsaw. Zinchenko now wishes she had taken more things with her — for example, the stamps of Lev’s feet and hands, a popular birth memory token. But she shakes those thoughts off.
“To be honest sometimes I feel like the luckiest girl in the world because I had an opportunity to take my son from there,”
...They met Szczepan Żurek, a 42-year-old Polish teacher, at the bus station in Warsaw. He had been informed via social media that there would be a transport of Ukrainian refugees in need of housing and handed over one room in his two-bedroom flat to the newcomers.
“We had trust and faith that we’ll arrive and we will find a way. We were lucky, we were very, very lucky with Szczepan,” Zinchenko
The next step is to find an apartment to rent, something that won’t be easy. Adding 300,000 people to Warsaw’s population of 1.8 million has stretched the capital’s property market.
There is no long-term plan.
“I’m trying not to think about it because I don’t know what’s left of Ukraine,” Zinchenko
... Tykhonenko’s husband, a professional soldier, called and told her: “Please, save our children, go abroad.”
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.eu ...
Down with Putin - the destroyer of Ukraine (AND Russia - his actions have destroyed Russia's standing and future)
Look out America,,,,won’t be long before anyone with an empty will be forced to take in illegal aliens. If you have any home loan financed by the Feds, you will be first.
Look out America,,,,won’t be long before anyone with an empty will be forced to take in illegal aliens. If you have any home loan financed by the Feds, you will be first.
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Paid off my first and only V.A. home loan 50 years ago and haven’t had to deal with them since.
Look out America,,,,won’t be long before anyone with an empty will be forced to take in illegal aliens. If you have any home loan financed by the Feds, you will be first.
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Paid off my first and only V.A. home loan 50 years ago and haven’t had to deal with them since.
A lot of these people will go back when the war ends.
This has no relationship to the American problem with illegal aliens.
These are legitimate refugees from across the border.
the only analogy would be if Canada was invaded by Russia and refugees came across the border.
Most of them - and all of the ones I’ve met - want to go back home. They say it is nice enough in Poland but it’s not home and they want to go back - when Putin gets his fill of blood.
Considering what Ukrainians did to Poles 80 years ago, if I were Polish, not sure I would take them in.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacres_of_Poles_in_Volhynia_and_Eastern_Galicia
“ He had been informed via social media that there would be a transport of Ukrainian refugees in need of housing and handed over one room in his two-bedroom flat to the newcomers.”
Gave up one of his two bedrooms. Very Christian behavior. Bless him.
The Polish people are amazing. They are resilient and longsuffering, and because of their history, they are mostly unselfish.
It's coming. Bet the rent.
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