This content was published on February 28, 2022 – 19:05
Miami, Feb 28 (EFE) .- The Ukrainian community in South Florida (USA) has come together to protest against the Russian “occupation”, cry for peace and donate necessary material in their country to alleviate the delicate situation they are suffering their compatriots since the beginning of the invasion last week.
One of the organizers of Ukrainians in Miami, Karina Moiseeva, explained today that last Thursday, the day the Russian invasion began, she became part of a small group of Ukrainians in Miami on the Telegram messaging application. Today there are already more than 13,000 people, she indicated.
Since then they have organized several events in South Florida, both for protests and for collecting donations, and they are in contact with humanitarian aid organizations in their country, to whom they deliver the donations they receive through Poland.
He explained that they are in direct contact with people in Ukraine and daily they update the most necessary products, which they keep in a warehouse in Hallandale Beach, in South Florida.
Inside the still unclosed boxes you can see diapers, medical and personal hygiene products, sleeping bags, numerous types of flashlights, hiking boots and dehydrated food, among many others.
This Monday, they established three collection points in South Florida. In one of them, the effort is coordinated by her mother, Lyudmila, who has her family and friends in Ukraine.
Liudmila told Efe today that she speaks with them daily and that, when they found themselves in this situation, her heart “simply did not resist” and she felt “obliged” to help, because, she said, “Ukraine must resist.”
She acknowledges that the situation is complicated and it makes her “very scared” to hear cases like that of the 14-year-old son of a friend of hers, who said that if the Russian soldiers come to his town he “will take a rifle and die, but he will die for Ukraine”.
Liudmila, married to a Russian and who moved to the US 11 years ago, stressed that aid is coming from all over the North American country, from “thousands of people” who help in whatever way they can to alleviate the situation, and that most needed today are medicines, diapers and baby food.
Tamar Kavtaradze, 34, from the former Soviet republic of Georgia, was one of those who came to the store to donate medical supplies for Ukrainians who “are so heroically defending their country.”
“The Russian aggressors, who were also aggressors against my country, Georgia, in the not too distant future may continue (invading other countries) and they must be stopped now,” Kavtaradze told Efe.
Tamar lent two ribbons with the yellow and blue of the Ukrainian flag to Lyudmila, who, visibly moved, asked the international community to help her country “resist”.
“Long live Ukraine, long live heroes!” exclaimed Liudmila, who even before the Russian invasion planned to return to her native country this year. “We will keep sending donations until Ukraine wins, because Ukraine is going to win,” she said. EFE
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