Ukrainian Americans fear the worst as conflict continues

For many Ukrainian Americans who migrated to the US after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia’s invasion has left them fearing for their loved ones back in Ukraine.

Middle East Eye’s Azad Essa speaks to those who have been protesting weekly against the invasion in different parts of New York, in the hope that the US steps in to end the conflict.

Luke Tomycz, a Ukrainian American neurosurgeon based in Jersey City, whose parents and grandparents were displaced after World War Two, came to the US in the 1950s. He said it felt “like history repeating itself. Unfortunately, the refugee crises is how this war becomes everyone's war. Europe only recently had to deal with an influx of Syrian refugees. Now it looks like they might have a lot of Ukrainian refugees, too. This is how we are all interconnected."

Protestors demonstrating against the Russian invasion of Ukraine in New York, USA.