NEW YORK (VINnews) — Jewish residents from the Ukraine reported to foreign elements about what is going on in their country. Meir, a chareidi resident of Kiev, told B’Chadrei that ” we woke up to bombings and sirens, it was very stressful. From my window I saw people trying to take cover.” He adds that “currently the tension is felt in the traffic jams.” Meir says that residents intend to leave the capital and “hide until things calm down.”
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Boris, the proprietor of a kosher store in Odessa, is calm and optimistic: “Today we woke up to a tough day but with G-d’s help we will get through it successfully. I run a kosher store with items for the community, I’m staying here. If anybody needs me my phone number is on the door and if you call, I’ll open the store. Come, buy, eat, everything will be OK.
In Kharkov, Chabad emissary Rabbi Mendel Moskowitz is on one of the tensest fronts but does not intend to leave soon. “From 5 AM there were bombings outside town which were heard in the town. We woke up and went down to the shelter.” He added that “currently everyone is staying in their houses, trying to get food and water and whatever is required for shelter. We aren’t leaving Kharkov. We intended to send hundreds of food parcels today, we are trying to find solutions to send them.”
The city of Uman, which was bombed (and at least one victim was reported) has a large chareidi population, which is currently evacuating via one of the borders nearby. Shlomi Elisha, a director of Hatzalah in Uman, said that “we in Uman had a difficult night, we woke up to an uneasy morning. Currently things are under control, we are all travelling to one of the borders and we hope that no Jews will get hurt and things will be OK.”
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