The federal government is launching a new dedicated phone line for anyone at home or abroad with urgent Ukraine-related immigration questions, in an effort to serve people as quickly as possible.
Mykhailo Bondarenko's grandparents sit with their grandchildren.
Bondarenko, who has lived in Canada since 2014, is from the city of Dnipro, about 480 km southeast of Kyiv. He said his family is staying strong and that he hopes they'll eventually escape the fighting and come to Canada. "What my concern is right now is that a lot of people, especially children and elderly people, who are trying to seek help outside of Ukraine and are trying to cross the border … they're very limited of where they can travel because of the [lack] of documents."Bondarenko said that while the Canadian government is prioritizing Ukrainian immigration, not everyone has universal passports. That includes some of Bondarenko's grandparents and his young relatives.
Puderak, executive director with the Ukrainian Canadian Congress of Saskatchewan , has close ties to Ukraine. Danylo Puderak at Ukraine’s capital Kyiv in 2014 in Independence Square during the Revolution of Dignity. "Canada will need to be prepared, and our own government here in Saskatchewan, to welcome those refugees and help them to settle into our communities."Puderak said that right now, he feels helpless and sad for the people he knows in Ukraine.
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