TWO WEEKS Local immigrant reacts to the conflict in Ukraine Story by Lizz Daniels Courtesy Photos
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Olga Pudovka Gross lives in Seguin, but grew up in Ukraine. Above she is pictured with her son.
wo weeks. For most of us, this is a single pay period — fourteen days of working or perhaps going to school. Half a month spent doing the mundane things that make up the hours that become our days. In these past two weeks, you may have been checking the news more as Russia invaded Ukraine. National and global headlines have kept the world up-to-date as an unprecedented shift in international peace occurred. War is awful, and in the United States, we are often shielded from the realities of it. This war, however, is different. The widespread use of social media has given people on the other side of the globe the opportunity to watch the conflict go down in the first person –– to get to know the people and worry about them. But as the bombing continues, here in the US, we get to turn off the news and go to bed at night knowing we are safe from harm. This, however, is not true for everyone; for community members with friends and family in Ukraine, the war is inescapable.
