Local Ukrainians over the weekend showed their solidarity with friends and family back home as the threat of war with Russia intensifies.
— when pro-Russian forces killed more than a hundred protestors on Kyiv's Independence Square.
Father Roman Tarnavsky of St. Andrew's Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Jamaica Plain said his church's annual memorial service felt especially relevant this year. "This is a scary time. A very difficult time," Tarnavsky said."I cannot imagine in the 21st century, this is happening.""If Russia will attack Ukraine, it's my opinion, it will attack all Europe," he noted.Down the road in the parking lot of a Catholic church, dozens of people draped blue and yellow Ukrainian flags over their cars as they prepared to drive from Jamaica Plain to Back Bay in a motorcade rally.
"I've lived in Boston for 26 years, it's home now, but my soul is in Ukraine," said Olena McHugh of West Roxbury."It's my motherland, always will be.""It's like a war between sisters or brothers," McHugh said."It's shameful, it's painful."
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