Stoughton, Wisconsin, has become an improbable haven for Ukrainians after three local women started a resettlement group from their kitchen.
On a recent evening at Chicago's O'Hare airport, Yulia Davydova and her four daughters stepped foot in America for the first time after 10 years of terror in war-torn eastern Ukraine.
"I'm happy that she's a strong woman and that she had the courage to move," said Ksenia Sokor, a Ukrainian woman who resettled to Stoughton in 2022 and helped Scripps News with translation.Davydova and her daughters come from Avdiivka, a front-line town that Russia has reduced to rubble and where there's no electricity nor running water.
After the Poroshkovs resettled to Stoughton last December, they begged their American sponsor to also help Davydova's family. "There are people like my family. There are people like my neighbors' families. We're just lucky that we were not born next to Russia," explained Lushaj.
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