Ukrainian soldiers and militiamen carry a woman in a wheelchair as the artillery echoes nearby, while people flee Irpin on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, on March 7. (Emilio Morenatti/Associated Press) Support for Ukraine is uniting the U.S.
against unprovoked Russian aggression I never thought of myself as half-Ukrainian. My mother’s father, Harry, always said he was Polish.
That was his native language, but he was born in L’viv — he called it L’vov — which had been part of Ukraine since the late 1700s.
My father’s father, Sol, said he was Romanian, born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in the town of Terebovlya — he called it Trembowla — which dates from at least 1097.