London, Ont. a temporary home for Ukrainians one year after war began
Global News
Marta Kosar and Bozehena Melnychuk are two teenagers currently calling London, Ont., home due to the Russian invasion of their home in Ukraine.
One year ago, on Feb. 24, 2022, Marta Kosar woke up to her mother saying war had broken out as Russia invaded their country.
After one week of not going outside and trips to a basement when air-raid sirens went off in her home city of Lviv on the western edge of Ukraine, the 16-year-old Kosar began the arduous travel away from her home, her family, her friends and her country.
After leaving Ukraine on March 2, Kosar made her way to Hungary for one week. After Hungary, Kosar made stops in Austria, Spain for one month and Montreal for a few days before planting herself in London on April 27.
“It was a long way here,” Kosar tells Global News on the eve of the war turning one year old.
A little less than five months later, Kosar’s first cousin, 15-year-old Bozehena Melnychuk, arrived from Ukraine on Sept. 24, 2022, leaving her home and family for a temporary safe place with her cousin and aunt Sofiya.
During their time in Ukraine, after the war began, the pair say air-raid sirens were a daily occurrence, though luckily, the dropping of bombs was not as frequent.
Kosar and Melnychuk are just two of the more than 150,000 Ukrainians that have made their way to Canada since the conflict broke out a year ago.
The teenagers attend St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Secondary School in London’s west end. Both in Grade 10, the pair say their teachers and classmates have been “amazing” in making them feel comfortable.
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