“Iimpossible to sit idly by. Bundled up in her coat with a small heater to keep her company, Halyna Trunova sits next to dozens of boxes. Overflowing with clothes, medicine, diapers and other necessities, these pile up under the gaze of a statue of the Virgin at the far end of the great hall of Guardian Angel, a church in Little Odessa, the Russian-speaking district of southern Brooklyn located on the edge of the Atlantic (like Odessa on the shores of the Black Sea).
Filled with donations from Ukrainians but also from local Russians and Americans, these boxes are patiently waiting to be shipped to Europe to help the victims of the war. The conflict has gone up a notch in horror in recent days with the…
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