Ukrainian dentist connects refugees with European host families

A Ukrainian dentist, who stays within the nation, is connecting fleeing refugees to European households keen to host them.

“For us, we do not see every other method,” Nazariy Mykhaylyuk advised Fox Information. “The one method is definitely to assist these individuals as a result of they’re in additional important situation than we’re.”

Two million Ukrainians have fled the nation over the 2 weeks since Russia invaded Ukraine. The United Nations has confirmed 1,509 civilian casualties, not together with these injured or killed after a Mariupol maternity hospital was shelled. The WHO has confirmed 18 assaults on medical services by Russian forces.

Ukrainian Territorial Defence Forces members practice to make use of an NLAW anti-tank weapon on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 9, 2022. Authorities introduced a brand new ceasefire on Wednesday to permit civilians to flee from cities across the capital, Kyiv, in addition to the southern cities of Mariupol, Enerhodar and Volnovakha, Izyum within the east and Sumy within the northeast. Earlier makes an attempt to ascertain protected evacuation corridors have largely failed because of assaults by Russian forces. 
(AP Photograph/Efrem Lukatsky)

Mykhaylyuk has made many connections as a world dentistry speaker touring to greater than 60 international locations over the previous 10 years. 

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The dentist and his household woke as much as the sound of Russian missiles in Kyiv on Feb. 24. They have been of their automotive quarter-hour later, forsaking “our house, behind our enterprise, every thing in Kyiv as a result of we understood that crucial at this second is definitely our life,” Mykhaylyuk advised Fox Information.

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Quickly after, Europeans that Mykhaylyuk had related with through the years started contacting him providing to assist. Mykhaylyuk concurrently began receiving requests to assist Ukrainian refugees.

He mentioned he sends “their contacts to companions and to pals in Europe, and so they get in contact with them instantly and assist them.” 

“That is how we have put them in touch with refugee households,” Mykhaylyuk advised Fox Information. “For instance, like in the present day, I obtained a telephone name from Spain the place greater than 30 households are prepared to simply accept the refugees proper of their homes.”

Ukrainians crowd below a destroyed bridge as they attempt to flee crossing the Irpin river
((AP Photograph/Emilio Morenatti) )

“As you understand, many individuals are leaving Ukraine, particularly ladies and youngsters, and so they have no place to go,” Mykhaylyuk mentioned from a resort in western Ukraine, the place many refugees are staying. 

“They really misplaced every thing. In a single second, every thing simply turned the wrong way up,” Mykhaylyuk mentioned. “So what they really have is simply their suitcase. That is it.”

“That is why they have no assist after they go to Europe,” he continued. “Nobody is ready for them.

09 March 2022, Bavaria, Augsburg: A refugee boy from Ukraine holds a toy in his hand within the dormitory of the ANKER Heart. 
(Photograph by Karl-Josef Hildenbrand/image alliance by way of Getty Photographs)

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged the U.S. and Poland to “ship us planes” to assist defend his nation’s airspace. 

“Our nation, we’re all the time able to assist one another. I am doing what I can in my particular place,” Mykhaylyuk advised Fox Information. “I am positively shocked that so many individuals have been prepared to assist” and assist “us with every thing they will.”

“We’re very completely satisfied to be useful, and we’re prepared to assist all of those that want it,” he continued.