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Paul Gavrilyuk, a native Ukrainian, has turned to an iconography project with a mission to expose the ongoing tragedy of war in Ukraine and to raise funds for a voluntary mobile hospital.
CHICAGO (CNS) It is happening. Three words in a text message from a friend in London alerted Paul Gavrilyuk that Russia s invasion on Ukraine had begun. From his home in St. Paul, Minnesota, he immediately called his brother in Lithuania, who agreed their elderly parents should evacuate Kyiv. It took about 200 phone calls between the two of them to convince their parents to flee. It took their parents six days to drive through seven countries to Lithuania a trip that in normal times w