According to the old custom, so that everything was fine, they sat down in front of the road. Ukrainian members of UnMode continue to return home … On February 23, in Tbilisi, Georgia, UnMode began a meeting on developing a communication strategy, which was attended by members of the network from five countries, including from Ukraine — Yulia Kogan from Odessa and Yanina Stemkovskaya from Poltava.
The next morning, the world and our lives changed forever. Simultaneously with the beginning of the war, the sky over Ukraine was closed and our beloved Yulia and Yanina stayed in Tbilisi. UnMode has done everything possible and impossible so that they don’t need anything. But Yulia and Yanina still had families in Ukraine, so it was impossible to keep them in safe Tbilisi for a long time — they chose to return to Ukraine to their loved ones and relatives.
idana Fedosik, program coordinator of UnMode: “I have a cognitive dissonance: I know how to organize the evacuation of people FROM a dangerous To a safe place. And for the first time in my life I do it the other way around ((There’s a storm inside, I want to hug and “not let go”, cry and persuade not to take risks and all sorts of baby-mom stuff. But at the same time, IMMENSE respect and pride from realizing what a beautiful and powerful SPIRIT our Ukrainian part of UnMode is: Yanina Stemkovskaya, Yulia Kogan. Thank you, dear ones, for a high-level example of fortitude and non-propagandistic patriotism. Everything will be Ukraine!”