Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has hit especially close to home for 85-year-old Simon Pawlenko.
PRATTVILLE, Ala. - Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has hit especially close to home for one Prattville man.
Pawlenko remembers his family’s farm in Ukraine being seized by Germany during World War II. He said they were forced to flee west because farm laborers were needed in Germany. “Right after the war, Russians wanted their people back, and my parents knew what it was to live under communism, so we chose not to. We were moving around until eventually we wound up in a displaced persons camp and eventually we wound up here in the states, and what a blessing that was,” Pawlenko said.
Pawlekno said they currently have family living in the capitol city of Kyiv. He describes one of his 94-year-old cousins having to take shelter. He added that he is appreciative of the support for the Ukrainian people, but said what they really need is immediate help in the form of weapons, food and shelter, etc.
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