The Bay Area's tech companies and nonprofits are demonstrating support for Ukrainian citizens as Russian troops encroached further into Eastern Ukraine Tuesday.
"Art is such a great medium, and a way to talk about these social issues," Carolyn Considine, who runs Justice Murals, said.
Justice Murals has been sharing these masterpieces at night in different Bay Area cities, hoping the art spurs conversations and inspires Americans to learn more about the events unfolding between Russia and Ukraine. "We are very worried," Dmytro Kushneruk, Consul General of Ukraine in San Francisco said while attending the Ukrainian art display. This week he's been responding to local Ukrainian Americans who have asked him for help contacting their local and state representatives.San Francisco-based company,
, an online platform connecting experts with people for professional advice, has offices worldwide, and roughly 260 employees who work in Ukraine."We've offered to keep them safe," he said. The company is offering to support relocation of 19 employees and their family members from Kyiv to neighboring nations to the west and paid time off.
"One of our employees has already said yes, we are moving them already," Kurtzig said, though many are thinking of staying."People are very courageous," Kushneruk said. "Most of them don't want to leave the country. And even the younger generation people cannot make their parents in Ukraine leave or even come here," he said.Kurtzig is preparing compensation plans for workers if they join the Ukrainian military.
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