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Ukrainians find refuge in North Dakota as arrivals fill oil field jobs amid labor shortage
Nypost ^ | 08/06/2023 | AP

Posted on 08/06/2023 11:28:52 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Maksym Bunchukov remembers hearing rockets explode in Zaporizhzhia as the war in Ukraine began.

“It was terrible,” he said. He and his wife sent their adult daughter west to Lviv for safety and joined her later with their pets.

Now, about 18 months after the war broke out, Bunchukov is in North Dakota, like thousands of Ukrainians who came over a century ago.

He is one of 16 new arrivals who are part of a trade group’s pilot effort through the Uniting for Ukraine humanitarian program to recruit refugees and migrants during a workforce shortage. Twelve more Ukrainians are scheduled to arrive by Aug. 15 as part of the North Dakota Petroleum Council’s Bakken Global Recruitment of Oilfield Workers program.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: North Dakota; Ukraine
KEYWORDS: labor; northdakota; oil; ukrainians
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To: ChicagoConservative27

So he left the country instead of defending his homeland, got it.


21 posted on 08/06/2023 1:05:58 PM PDT by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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To: FLNittany

Have you any idea what a roughness does during the 12 hour shift..ability to lift 100lbs dead weigh mandatory..spokeshave who was a roughneck. In a previous evistence.


22 posted on 08/06/2023 1:13:19 PM PDT by SpokeshaveReturns (Proud Boys, Angry Dads and Grumpy Grandads.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Wait til winter there …


23 posted on 08/06/2023 1:30:22 PM PDT by 11th_VA (XX < > XY)
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To: Signalman
More jobs Americans won’t get.

Obviously jobs that Americans didn't want. Otherwise, why were there openings?

24 posted on 08/06/2023 1:35:08 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: Eagles6

Yep, too.


25 posted on 08/06/2023 1:39:19 PM PDT by Macoozie (Handcuffs and Orange Jumpsuits)
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To: 11th_VA

Considering that Ukraine is actually slightly north of North Dakota. But it does have a milder winter. I’m sure they will be fine.


26 posted on 08/06/2023 4:17:42 PM PDT by Trinity5
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To: Trinity5

27 posted on 08/06/2023 4:20:13 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: bgill

I’d like to see a Kristi Noem commercial about how she’s helping out with the stripper shortage in her state of South Dakota.


28 posted on 08/06/2023 4:25:42 PM PDT by Apparatchik (If you find yourself in a confusing situation, simply laugh knowingly and walk away - Jim Ignatowski)
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To: Apparatchik

Well said!


29 posted on 08/06/2023 4:38:29 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Well good.


30 posted on 08/06/2023 4:56:00 PM PDT by e_castillo
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To: McGruff
So he left the country instead of defending his homeland, got it.

And you served when? There is nothing more pathetic than a fat, couch potato rambo who has never experience the total devastation of his house and city by an invading force such as the Russians.

Do you also condemn the Vietnamese who were able to escape to the United states during the Vietnam war or the Polish refugees who were able to escape to the U.S. during WW-II?

You are a pathetic idiot who has never experienced the loss of everything you own due to a conflict you had nothing to do with.

You have absolutely no right to judge these refugees until you have walked in their shoes........I spit on you!

31 posted on 08/06/2023 5:04:47 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: Hot Tabasco

He’s a coward. And I served, did you?


32 posted on 08/06/2023 5:13:54 PM PDT by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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To: Trinity5
Considering that Ukraine is actually slightly north of North Dakota. But it does have a milder winter. I’m sure they will be fine.

North Dakota might be too cold for the Ukrainians.

33 posted on 08/06/2023 5:14:58 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: McGruff
So he left the country instead of defending his homeland, got it.

Maybe he didn't want to fight for Joe and Hunter's slush fund?

Not all Ukrainians are proud nationalists. Many understand their country is a corrupt cesspool.

Sure, he could've stayed to try to make his homeland a better place but that's kinda hard to do when our country is spending billions ensuring its destruction.

34 posted on 08/06/2023 8:20:04 PM PDT by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President. A conservative who fights and wins.)
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To: JonPreston

Zelensky doesn’t matter; Biden ordered the fighting age males to report to the US to sell solar panels and get registered to vote.

People who think Putin and Biden are on opposite sides are idiots. Street theater... Obama sold out Ukraine in 2009.


35 posted on 08/06/2023 9:18:50 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: SaveFerris

You have that right.

Only the elite will eat meat...map of food processing plants in the US that have been destroyed in the past year... who controls the food supply...

https://open.substack.com/pub/divadrops/p/only-the-elite-will-eat-meatmap-of?r=xi11r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web


36 posted on 08/07/2023 4:31:54 AM PDT by GailA (Constitution vs evil Treasonous political Apparatchiks, Constitutional Conservative.)
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To: dfwgator

🎶🎶 You don’t know how lucky you are 🎶🎶


37 posted on 08/07/2023 4:39:42 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: GailA

The New World Order WEF wants everybody to eat the bugs 🦟🐛🐜🐞🕷️🦗🪲🪳


38 posted on 08/07/2023 4:40:59 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: SaveFerris

Lab Gtown meat reminds me of the movie Soylent Green.

Study Reveals Consumers Being Sold False Fish

A new study has found that over ten percent of all seafood sold in Australian supermarkets and restaurants is not the type of fish that it claims to be, compromising the health and wallets of Australians.

Published in the peer-reviewed journal Scientific Reports on Aug. 3, the report revealed the extent of mislabelling amid a rise in the consumption of fish in the country, particularly as an increasing number of health-conscious look to bolster their diets with beneficial omega-3 fatty acids and other various nutrients found in many varieties of fish.

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39 posted on 08/07/2023 4:49:45 AM PDT by GailA (Constitution vs evil Treasonous political Apparatchiks, Constitutional Conservative.)
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To: Drew68

“our country is spending billions ensuring its destruction.”

Russia invaded Ukraine.

Russia is destroying Ukraine.

Nice to see you support annihilation of peoples and nations. Kinda like Saddam/Kuwait, Kim/Korea, etc.

I suppose you’ll be cheering Kim when he invades South Korea or Xi invading Taiwan.

Yeah, don’t resist conquest and annihilation. -That just ensures there will be more of it.

Some ppl won’t be satisfied until the whole world burns and humanity is enslaved.


40 posted on 08/07/2023 4:52:47 AM PDT by Justa (If where you came from is so great then why aren't Floridians moving there?)
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