Inna Savska and Katya Kolomiiets arrived in Canada a year ago. They came to Ottawa to stay with Anna Plugatyr and her family, the only relatives they have in Canada.
Savska is Plugatyr’s cousin and is from Kharkiv, Ukraine. Katya Kolomiiets’ brother is Plugatyr’s husband. She is from Poltava, Ukraine, about 150 kilometres west of Kharkiv.
"I wanted to do it so much, I completed courses to be a figure skating coach and I have a contract with Nepean Skating Club.” Kolomiiets husband is still a soldier on the front lines in Ukraine. She says communication can be sporadic and sometimes unreliable. "Ottawa is very cozy for me," Kolomiiets said. "You can go to different places and feel like everything is pretty close and nice, buildings are very nice. I like Ottawa very much."
The women and their children did not claim refugee status to come to Canada. They are here with a temporary visa, under an emergency immigration program with the federal government. The visa is for three years. "Of course, we are still missing everyone who is still back home and cannot be with us for different reasons, everyone is missing everyone.”
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