Ukrainian women give up work and life to save fleeing refugees… and 100,000 pets
- Oksana Koshak and Olga Korllovich created a charitable foundation to help homeless animals
- With the support of an army of volunteers, he found shelters for 100,000 animals.
- Natalia Rybka-Parkhomenko turned the Lviv theater named after Les Kurbas into a shelter
Across Ukraine, inspirational women are giving up their regular jobs and lives to help the military.
A striking example is 32-year-old Lyana Mytsko. As soon as the invasion began, she turned the center of avant-garde arts in Lviv, which she runs, a main hub for those fleeing the fighting in eastern Ukraine, into a refuge for refugees.
She and ten friends also pick them up from the main train station, a service no one else provided.
Oksana Koshak, 39, a senior civil servant, and Olga Korllovich, 35, a medical interpreter, created the Tailed Hostages of War charity for displaced pets.
Every night, up to 40 mothers, children and babies sleep in galleries filled with contemporary paintings and art.
“We also arranged with two psychologists to help them, talk to them, calm them down if they are stressed, and help them figure out what to do next,” Liana said.
At the same time, her team of artists designed the Stand With Ukraine posters, which are sent around the world. “I am proud that we were able to help,” she said.
Oksana Koshak, 39, a senior civil servant, and Olga Korllovich, 35, a medical interpreter, created the Tailed Hostages of War charity for displaced pets.
With the support of an army of volunteers, he found shelters for 100,000 animals.
Oksana said: “We are both pet lovers, and as soon as the fights started, we were struck by the same thought: “What about all the pets?” We felt we had to do something. But then everyone does something.”
With the support of an army of volunteers, he found shelters for 100,000 animals.
One of Lviv’s most famous actresses, 33-year-old Natalya Rybka-Parkhomenko, originally from bombed-out Kharkiv, has turned the city’s Les Kurbas Theater into a sanctuary.
“I felt like I had to do something. We had to find a place for all these people fleeing the East,” she said.
TV presenter Daria Girna epitomizes impartial professionalism as she tells millions of Ukrainians about the latest horrors.
If there is an air raid warning, she disappears for a few minutes before calmly picking up where she left off in the basement bunker.
She said, “When I sit and read the newsletters, I don’t get emotional because I’m basically simmering with anger. I am furious at what Russia is doing to my country.”