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Olga is offering a glimpse into life in Ukraine since the Russian invasion in February 2022. The article last week left Olga at work in Ivano-Frankvisk in West Ukraine. She had just read on social media that Kiev was being bombed. Her dad and brother had left there an hour before to join her 340 miles further west. Olga has asked her family’s last name not be printed for security reasons. Twenty years ago Olga had received a scholarship to study in the U.S. There she met Steve and Jan Paul of Shelter Bay. These quotes and summaries are from emails Olga sends when the Internet is available...