‘This awesome war’: Ukrainians find them far from home in Edmonton’s church star-news.press/wp

Cornpress Zubridsky The shepherd is sometimes heard from air attacks in Ukraine that is thousands of miles away.

Mermaids Congregant’s mobile phones allowed San Juan Baptist Ukraine in Ukraine in Edmonton.

“Many of them have the app here in Canada here, and if they disappear. That’s the city, they immediately get to see if his relatives are well,” Zubritsky said in a final interview.

“For them, this is real. And then it’s real because they are connected to me. They are fighting war every day.”

Zubridsky said most of his 150 congregations of 150 people are Ukrainian immigrants. The member of the church declined in the Covid-19 pandemic, but has grown again with Ukrainian families.

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Monday has been a Russian invasion for three years. Thousands of thousands have died.

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About 300,000 Ukrainians have come to Canada for emergencies since 2022.

Zubritsky said some of his weekly church service went Loss of hope, and they don’t want to hear talking about what is happening in their homeland.

“At least for a few hours, they can come … And your country can be a bit of daily stress,” he said.


“They don’t need warning. They remember every day. They receive texts, receive phone calls.”

Sitting in church, Snizhana Kshets said he didn’t give much thoughts to the anniversary.

He and his three children, 10, 14 and 18 years of age in Canada since the war began. Her husband was in the Ukrainian army but last year, and he entered the family in Edmonton.

“I’m not measuring my life in Canada here for a year or three years. It’s horrible every day, it’s not like the third anniversary of this terrible war,” he said.

“Every day I think it’s hard to realize that this happened to us, and no one helps us stop this.”

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Kshetska said he wanted to return one day in Ukraine and left behind his friends and relatives.

“My kids, I’m not sure,” he said. “I think they will ask them and it will be their choice.”

Zubridsky said that the tissues and emotional support gives it to Ukrainians. It helps them find jobs, deal with landlords and sorts immigration themes.

“As if they were not enough to deal with, this year is permitted with a reduced number of immigration, it will throw Canada,” he said.

“I come home a few days and we have good crying that there are more than the overall state of all the people here.”

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2025-02-23 15:33:00

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