There was a final meal with vareniki dumplings, holubtsi stuffed cabbage, vodka and tears
They have gone home. The Ukrainians that my family have housed for the past six months felt that they simply had to return. Sasha’s husband Andrei*, who had been barred from leaving his country with them in April, just received his call-up papers to the army. Along with her grandmother, Yulia, and four-year-old son Oleg, Sasha needed to see himI had signed up for the Government’s Ukraine scheme, but Yulia, Sasha and Oleg did not arrive that way.
Yulia and Oleg spoke no English, Sasha a smidgeon. Luckily, my daughter speaks some Russian, but we worried how they would feel about that. It was needless: all Ukrainians speak Russian. At least they could communicate. The route to London had been tortuous: buses from their home in rural western Ukraine, near-ish to Lviv, over the Polish border. They were charming and grateful but shy, hesitant, disoriented and perhaps in shock. They felt they needed to flee, particularly for Oleg, but none had wanted to leave their homes. Who would?
Their London family and my ex helped to navigate practical bureaucracy: from banking to benefits. I showed them the River Thames and – this being London – the nearest Polish delicatessen. Much of the time was spent with the rest of their family, but without work or land to tend, they felt purposeless; always wistful and worried about those back home – particularly in the early Russian ascendancy.
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