A general feeling of disbelief and sadness pervaded key institutions in the East Village’s Ukrainian American community following Russian President Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of their home country.
“Americans told us it would happen, but it was so ridiculous that we didn’t want to believe it. Now it’s become a reality,” said Nataliya Turchak, a teller at the Ukrainian National Federal Credit Union. “We’re in disbelief.”
Hours after Putin’s 200,000-soldier military commenced a multiprong attack on Ukraine, the historical community of Little Ukraine, tucked along Second and Third Avenues in the East Village, became the local nexus for understanding the conflict and learning what Americans can do to
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