Families such as the Tiutiunnyks will celebrate their first Thanksgiving — the holiday is not celebrated in Ukraine — while waiting for peace
Tiutiunnyk, 37, arrived in Ottawa in June, four months after fleeing the bombs, blood and upheaval that announced Russia’s lightning invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. You may unsubscribe any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our emails. Postmedia Network Inc.
“We are too far from our country, our house, our home, but we are grateful to the Canadian people,” she says. “They have been very kind to us, very generous.” Before being forced to leave, the Tiutiunnyk family lived in Irpin, just outside Kyiv. The town was the site of a pitched battle early in the war as the Russian Army attempted to encircle Ukraine’s capital. The Tiutiunnyks hid in the basement of their apartment building during the worst of the fighting and fled to the southwest when they had the chance.Article content
He reached out to friends, relatives and former classmates, including Tiutiunnyk, whom he knew from his hometown, Okhtyrka, and offered to help bring them to Canada. When he heard about another Ukrainian-Canadian in Ottawa doing the same thing, they joined forces and started to raise money.Article content
Retired federal public servants Sharon and Brian Irwin wanted to do something more than donate money after watching Russian forces bomb Kyiv. The couple worked in Ukraine as part of Canada’s diplomatic mission there between 2016 and 2019, and grew to admire its people and culture.Article content
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