'It’s a challenging time': Ukrainian Christmas celebrations bringing mixed emotions for refugees yyc
Moussienko and her five Ukrainian family members now in Calgary will gather Friday night for dinner and carolling, and hope to connect via phone with the other family members back home.
“It’s very, very challenging for our community … Christmas is a time of gathering, being together with family and … some cannot do that this year,” she said.Article content More than 18,000 Ukrainians have arrived in Alberta since the start of the war in late February 2022, with 44 per cent coming to Calgary and 31 per cent to Edmonton.“It’s a very large group of people coming — a lot of people very displaced that need a lot of support,” she said. “It’s a challenging time.
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