One year following Russia's unprecedented invasion of Ukraine, twenty-four-year-old Halia Didula is safe and living in the Ukrainian Village neighborhood of Chicago on a two-year scholarship to study social work at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
with the United States, raising global tensions.on Monday, the first time in recent history that a U.S. president traveled to a war zone without an American military presence.
Demonstrators plan to protest Russian atrocities on Saturday at Water Tower Place, followed by a march along Michigan Avenue to shine light on the brutal Russian invasion and “the suffering of the Ukrainian people,” according to an event statement. “I think as long as war will be, we will not be able to just get used to life,” she said. “You always feel some guilt, some grief.”While the war directly threatens Ukrainian freedom, much is also at stake for the United States, Europe and the globe, said DePaul University political science professor Richard Farkas.
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