Colin Kubik, my nephew, lived, studied, worked and volunteered in Ukraine during a ten-year span from 2012 to the time of the Russian invasion on February 24, 2022.  He worked with a street children's program in western Ukraine.  He also volunteered for a year at the "Revival" Centre in Chernihiv 35 miles east of Chernobyl,  In addition,  he also spent a year with the Peace Corps in southwestern Ukraine.  Finally,  he has studied at a Lviv University right up to the time of the Russian invasion.  He is continuing his studies online from where he is now living in Spokane, Washington. He has learned to speak Ukrainian and Russian.  He has been interviewed on Ukrainian television as well as the press.  

Colin talks about the living with the Ukrainian people and his life with them in their time of trial.