How One Ukrainian Family Is Adjusting To Life In Minnesota, One Year After Russian Invasion

By Pauleen Le, CBS Minnesota

March 3, 2023

MINNEAPOLIS -- One of the first Ukrainian families to arrive in Minnesota is reflecting on their journey in light of the one-year anniversary of the Russian invasion. This comes as one Minnesota non-profit said it's still in need of sponsors to help more Ukrainians trying to escape.

Vadym and Liubov Holiuk along with their three daughters, 11-year old twins Anastasiia and Alisa and 2.5-year-old Anita became the first family sponsored through Alight to arrive in Minnesota last September. WCCO News was there at Minneapolis St. Paul International Airport as they stepped off the plane, greeted with signs and balloons from their sponsors Mark and Sharon Norlander of Brooklyn Park.

"We didn't know what we should expect from landing here and how everything will go on after that, but then we met the Norlanders and it was fine," the Holiuks said. "[When our] youngest daughter Anita, got off the plane she saw Mark he was playing with her already at the airport."

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