Ukrainian families come to Central Texas amid uncertainty

ROUND ROCK, Texas (KXAN) – Ukrainian households in Austin are serving to individuals from their homeland settle in Central Texas because the battle with Russia continues.

Tatyana Myslovsksya of Spherical Rock is a part of a kind of households who’re lending a hand. A buddy lately linked her to journalist Lesya Moskalenko who lives in a village proper outdoors of Kyiv.

Moskalenko had been visiting individuals in the US when the battle began. She was unable to return to her nation and wanted a spot to remain. Myslovsksya took her and her household in.

“All Ukrainian individuals are household. We’re very sturdy and really linked,” Myslovsksya mentioned.

For Moskalenko, each second is stuffed with uncertainty. Her mother and father, animals, mates and colleagues are nonetheless in Ukraine, with no signal of having the ability to get out.

“On a regular basis she is ready for her mother and father to get up and textual content her that they’re OK,” Myslovsksya translated for Moskalenko. “Right this moment the bomb simply fell proper within the heart of her village.”

Whereas making an attempt to carry again feelings, Moskalenko instructed KXAN the scenario in her homeland is “horrible.” Rape and homicide have develop into too widespread. She doesn’t know when she’ll be capable to return residence.

“Being in your mid 40s, beginning throughout however not having a future, you reside daily making an attempt to determine it out,” Myslovsksya defined for Moskalenko.

Myslovsksya says there may be some hope after President Joe Biden requested almost $33 billion from Congress to assist Ukraine. One other glimmer of hope is the brand new bond between these two Ukrainian girls, as soon as strangers, however now household introduced collectively by the devastation of battle.

“We’re going to proceed our relationship,” Myslovsksya mentioned. “We already talked about us flying to Kyiv.”

They are saying many Ukrainians who’ve fled their residence nation are both ready to return or are making use of for Non permanent Protected Standing or Refugee Standing within the U.S.