Ukrainian neighborhood in Chicago prays for families out of the nation, speaks out against Russian invasion

As Russian forces continue their assault in Ukraine, residents of Chicago’s Ukrainian Village neighborhood are rallying against the invasion and praying for their families out of the nation. 

Students from Saint Nicholas Fundamental walked from faculty to the Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral in Chicago for a determined service on Thursday. Many teenagers in attendance had been staring on the inclinations out of the nation in distress of relatives who stay in Ukraine. 

One eighth-grader informed FOX 32 Chicago that his cousins – all the very best device by device of the identical age as him – had been in Ukraine and had been ready to protect it. 

“In my see, it’s a ways terribly upsetting, I manufacture no longer know the device they feel since they stay there and stoop to faculty there,” the student said. “Now they need to elevate out what they’ll elevate out to address themselves alive.”

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Household also shared cell cell phone videos of explosions that rocked the nation all the very best device by device of the paunchy-scale invasion. 

“All Ukrainians have been up all evening staring on the guidelines,” said Geri Abramiuk, manager of the Ukrainian Cultural Middle in Chicago. “It’s very, very unhappy.”

A U.S. protection official said the assault started with a Russian missile barrage of spherical 100 intermediate-differ, rapid-differ, and cruise missiles that came from the land, air, and sea, in step with a represent launched Thursday by the Department of Defense. 

The official effectively-known that Russian forces had been within the preliminary portion of the invasion of Ukraine and had been attacking by device of three corridors. There used to be fighting interior 20 miles of the heart of the capital Kyiv, as effectively as fighting all the very best device by device of the eastern city of Kharkiv and within the southern phase of the nation. 

“It be our evaluate that [Russian forces] have every map of in most cases, decapitating the government and installing their very possess formula of governance, which would gift these early strikes in direction of Kyiv,” the unnamed official said within the represent. 

On Thursday afternoon in Chicago, a rally used to be held at Saints Volodymyr and Olha Ukrainian Catholic Church which seen residents — who gathered on the steps of the church and interior sight streets — carrying Ukrainian flags and signs. 

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These in attendance expressed device back and infuriate. Some known as for harsher sanctions than the original ones President Biden offered earlier on Thursday, the reveal reported. 

“How considerable extra Ukrainian blood has to be shed to variety them pay? Now’s the time, unleash the sanctions, halt the wrestle. Quit Russia’s economy. This day, there wants to be action by the United International locations,” said Pavlo Bandriwsky, Vice President of Ukrainian Congress Committee of The United States Illinois Division, in step with FOX 32 Chicago. 

Biden said the sanctions, in coordination with a coalition of different worldwide locations, would goal extra main Russian banks and variety it extra tough for Russia to elevate out commerce in bucks, Euros, pounds, and yen. The sanctions can even goal Russian elites and restrict the borrowing opportunities for 13 Russian entities and enterprises. There can even be “original limitations” on what would possibly per chance well additionally be exported to Russia, Biden said.

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The Chicago neighborhood has been protesting for months. A vigil will be held Thursday evening to honor lives lost all the very best device by device of the invasion. 

Fox Recordsdata’ Brooke Singman contributed to this represent