Ukrainians in the Carolinas

Pentagon is halting promised munitions for Ukraine as July 4 approaches and we are getting ready to honor American independence. As you are about to celebrate America's birthday, please remember - Ukraine is fighting for her existence right now. America must help Ukraine! Ukraine’s fight is our fight! Call your leaders and demand to: ✅ Restart American military aid immediately: air defense and precision weapons save lives and stop Russian attacks. ✅ Rescue kidnapped children: over 19,000 Ukrainian kids have been abducted by Russia. Bring them home. ✅ Seize frozen Russian assets: use Kremlin funds, not U.S. taxpayer money, to rebuild Ukraine. ✅ Support Ukrainians in the U.S.: extend TPS and U4U, and speed up work permits and reunification. For friends who are NC Senatorial and NC 2nd Congressional District constituents, please call: 📞 Rep. Ross: (202) 225‑3032 📞 Sen. Budd: (202) 224‑3154 📞 Sen. Tillis: (202) 224‑6342 📞 Trump WH: (202) 456‑1414 This is America’s moment to stand for freedom and against evil!

Вишиванки Кароліни! Шануємо наш генетичний код - вдягаймо вишиванки завтра на концерт! Вишиванка - це не просто елемент одягу, а символ української ідентичності, історії та духу. У кожному візерунку закодовані обереги, родинна пам’ять і зв’язок поколінь. Вишиванка об’єднує українців у світі, нагадуючи про силу культури й незламність нації, особливо у часи випробувань. We hope to see all of you at our Ukrainian concert tomorrow night! Wear your vyshyvankas! The vyshyvanka is not just a piece of clothing, but a symbol of Ukrainian identity, history, and spirit. Each pattern carries protective symbols, family memory, and a connection between generations. The vyshyvanka unites Ukrainians around the world, serving as a reminder of the strength of our culture and the resilience of our nation, especially in times of hardship.

There was no family in Ukraine that didn't lose a loved one to WWII, which on the European continent officially ended 80 years ago today. Remembering my grandparents and their parents, some of whom I knew and loved and some of whom only lived in my life through my grandparents' stories. My grandparents and their parents would have found it hard to believe that Ukrainians continue to die defending freedom today. “As long as there’s no more war,” that’s what I always heard from my grandparents and great-grandparents, people I was lucky enough to know. They rarely spoke of the war, but when they did, I listened closely. And today I keep asking myself. What must my great-grandmother Kateryna Zinchenko have felt, sending her three brothers, her husband, and her two sons off to war? One of her brothers, Ivan, never came back. What was it like for my great-grandmother Motya Eremenko, widowed young in 1943, trying to survive alone with two small children, losing her 1.5 year old son Mykola to illness only a few months after losing her husband Andriy to war. Did my great-grandmother Antonina Kozlova know right away that she wouldn’t survive her wound, leaving her son, my grandfather, orphaned at just 13? How desperate must my great-grandparents Grechuk have been to burn my grandmother Lyuba’s hands in 1942, just to prevent her from being taken to Germany? Today, I think of all of them. And I know they would be turning in their graves to see that russia is once again trying to kill their descendants. Rushism is the new Nazism, and for the twelfth year in a row, Ukraine is fighting it alone. “Never again” has turned into again, just 80 years later. A tragically short memory by any measure. In the fall of 1943, when the soviets took back my hometown of Kremenchuk from the nazis, my great-grandmother Antonina Kozlova was wounded in an airstrike. Because there were no medical supplies available to her, she bled to death. Today, just as we have for the past 11 years, we continue raising funds to send life-saving tactical medical supplies to Ukrainian defenders and civilians wounded in russian attacks. If you feel compelled to support this cause, your tax-deductible donation will go directly to Ukrainian volunteers who risk their lives to save others. Thank you. https://lnkd.in/gCcQeAjB

Христос Воскрес! Воскресне й Україна! Good over evil, light over darkness! https://lnkd.in/e_aXpcfr