Indeed. And I know some who are even worse off than he is.
He has a tough job working night shifts for Amazon, and his wife is working for MacDonalds (they both have a degree in finance), but many of the Ukrainians with factory jobs got laid off once the Xmas market was over.
Some of them are managing to build a social life, but it's hard. When Dima and/or his wife have a day off at a weekend, they (or just the one who has the day off) come round with their son and play board games with me. When I hear young Kyrill (age 11) laugh, then I know I'm doing something right. He was low for a long time after he arrived.
Dima and Inna stay with different host families, but they are both in the same village, and that's massively better than the four months they were separated at the start of the war.
Dima escaped from the occupied territories to Poland a few days after his wife and son escaped. I never ask Inna for full details of that journey, but I know second-hand that it was terrifying. A few days after the Russians invaded, she grabbed one change of clothes for herself and her son and left pretty much everything else behind. The two of them fled with a friend in her friend's car, stopping only for her friend to breast-feed her baby. They were out after the curfew and knew there was a strong risk of being caught.
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He has a tough job working night shifts for Amazon, and his wife is working for MacDonalds (they both have a degree in finance), but many of the Ukrainians with factory jobs got laid off once the Xmas market was over.
Some of them are managing to build a social life, but it's hard. When Dima and/or his wife have a day off at a weekend, they (or just the one who has the day off) come round with their son and play board games with me. When I hear young Kyrill (age 11) laugh, then I know I'm doing something right. He was low for a long time after he arrived.
Dima and Inna stay with different host families, but they are both in the same village, and that's massively better than the four months they were separated at the start of the war.
Dima escaped from the occupied territories to Poland a few days after his wife and son escaped. I never ask Inna for full details of that journey, but I know second-hand that it was terrifying. A few days after the Russians invaded, she grabbed one change of clothes for herself and her son and left pretty much everything else behind. The two of them fled with a friend in her friend's car, stopping only for her friend to breast-feed her baby.
They were out after the curfew and knew there was a strong risk of being caught.
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