Ukrainians trapped in Thailand fight despair with protests, fundraising as war ravages homeland

By Jitsiree Thongnoi

When Iliana Martseniak’s family in Kharkiv first messaged her a month ago to tell her about Russia’s invasion of their homeland, she said she was “incredibly scared and completely devastated”.The 37-year-old has been in Bangkok for the past four years and is part of a small community of Ukrainians living thousands of miles away in Thailand whose lives have nevertheless been upended by the war back home.“I was not able to believe that this had become a reality. I thought it was some…

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