Students from Ukraine who are studying overseas are worrying about their loved ones and the war's impact on the lives they were planning to return to at home
Students Sophia Pavlenko, left, of Russia, and Masha Novikova, of Ukraine, prepare blini, the Eastern European-style crepes, to sell to fellow students in a dorm at the United World College, Sunday, March 12, 2022, in Montezuma, N.M. At the boarding school in the Rocky Mountains, a group of Eastern European teenagers made crepes to raise money for the millions of people whose lives have been uprooted by Russia’s war on Ukraine. MONTEZUMA, N.M.
On a recent Saturday, a half-dozen of them gathered in a dormitory kitchen to make blini — the Eastern European-style crepes — to sell to fellow students. “My Russian friend, she understands my mentality and she understands how I feel,” said Novikova, adding that the war has brought them closer. “Of course, there are many conversations we hold these days about politics and about the future of our countries.”
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