Elena Trofimchuk left Ukraine to Romania more than a month ago
1 May 2022, 13: 18
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BUCHAREST, Romania — Elena Trofimchuk gotaway Ukraine to Romania more than a month earlier. She now sees Bucharest’s North Railway Station as a 2nd house.
She doesn’t live there, however it’s where she invests most of her day inviting fellow Ukrainian refugees gettingaway from Russia’s war and assisting them sort out tickets, lodging and onward locations.
The 26-year-old stated that keeping herself hectic and helpful keeps her from residence on Russia’s shelling of her hometown, Odesa, where lotsof of her goodfriends stay.
“If you sit and do absolutelynothing, you can simply endedupbeing insane since you’re constantly browsing for news. It’s extremely hard. So here I can assistance individuals buy tickets and discover lodgings. I even assistance Romanians in the cookingarea,” Trofimchuk stated.
Before the breakout of the war in Ukraine, she worked as a professionalphotographer.
Trofimchuk is simply one of numerous orange-vested Ukrainian volunteers working at the station.
Ukrainian volunteer Vitalii Ivanchuk flew all the method from Sri Lanka where he lived with his Ukrainian sweetheart to assistance refugees coming into Romania.
The 29-year-old IT designer stated that numerous Ukrainians have a hard time interacting with Romanians, and volunteers who can speak both Ukrainian and English are in high need.
His sweetheart, Anastasiia Haiduk, giveup