Chicagoans are offering volunteer, medical support to Ukraine

Chicagoans are offering volunteer, medical support to Ukraine
Refugees fleeing war in neighboring Ukraine board a train at the Medyka border crossing, Poland, Thursday, March 10, 2022. Daniel Cole / Associated Press
Chicagoans are offering volunteer, medical support to Ukraine
Refugees fleeing war in neighboring Ukraine board a train at the Medyka border crossing, Poland, Thursday, March 10, 2022. Daniel Cole / Associated Press

Chicagoans are offering volunteer, medical support to Ukraine

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Two million people have fled Ukraine, half of them children, since the start of the Russian invasion. It’s a crisis of historic proportions that the United Nations has called the fastest-growing refugee crisis in Europe since World War II.

Reset hears from Chicagoans offering medical supplies and volunteer support to Ukrainians.

GUESTS: Iuliia Skuibida, Ukranian from Chicago who recently returned from helping refugees in Poland

Vitaliy Poylin, colon and rectal surgeon at Northwestern Medicine